When banks, mortgage servicers, debt collectors, or other financial institutions have treated you unfairly, Marc Dann is the attorney you want in your corner.
As Founding and Managing Partner of DannLaw, Dann has spent more than fifteen years taking on the most powerful financial institutions in the country on behalf of ordinary people — and winning. He has represented tens of thousands of consumers in cases involving wrongful foreclosure, predatory lending, illegal debt collection, and mortgage servicing abuse. He has prosecuted more than 25 class action cases and secured results that have changed the financial lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
He Knows How to Win Against the Big Banks
Dann is a nationally recognized leader in the use of federal mortgage servicing regulations to hold servicers accountable. His command of the legal tools available to consumers — from the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to the Truth in Lending Act — means he can identify violations that other attorneys miss and build cases that produce real results for clients.
His recent record speaks for itself. In 2025, Dann won a landmark appellate court decision restoring nearly $900 million in pandemic unemployment benefits to approximately 330,000 Ohioans after the state ended the program unlawfully. He is currently suing state officials over the use of $1.7 billion in unclaimed funds — money that belongs to working- and middle-class citizens — to finance a new stadium for a billionaire-owned NFL team. He is in discussions with clients connected to the State Teachers Retirement System regarding the constitutionality of last-minute pension board changes buried in the state budget.
Current class action and representative matters include cases against Bank of America, Wells Fargo, PHH Mortgage, Federal National Mortgage Association, and Velocity Investments, in federal courts across the country.
He Understands What You’re Going Through
Dann connects with his clients in a way that most attorneys cannot. He knows what it means to face a serious setback, to feel like the ground has shifted beneath you, and to have to fight your way back.
“I can tell them that there was a moment in time where I had a lot and I lost everything,” he has said of his clients. “I know what it feels like.”
That perspective shapes everything about how DannLaw operates — from the firm’s commitment to making legal services accessible to working- and middle-class clients, to the way Dann personally invests in each case.
He Has Fought These Battles at the Highest Levels
Before founding DannLaw, Dann served as Ohio’s Attorney General, where he confronted the mortgage crisis head-on. He pursued securities fraud claims against the creators of mortgage-backed securities, deployed Mortgage Fraud Task Forces in Ohio’s major cities, challenged the standing of mortgage servicers to foreclose, and organized more than 1,200 volunteer attorneys to represent homeowners in foreclosure. That experience gave him an insider’s understanding of how financial institutions operate, where they cut corners, and how to hold them accountable.
He also brings that knowledge directly to other attorneys. Dann regularly hosts seminars and working groups teaching consumer protection litigation techniques, helping lawyers across the country recognize — and act on — patterns of unlawful conduct by financial institutions.
Results for Clients Across the Country
DannLaw represents clients in a wide range of consumer rights matters, including:
- Wrongful foreclosure and mortgage servicing abuse
- Illegal debt collection
- Consumer fraud and predatory lending
- Class action litigation against banks and financial institutions
- Bankruptcy and financial distress
Dann is admitted in Ohio, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits, and more than a dozen federal district courts nationwide, including courts in New York, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Washington, North Carolina, California, and Florida.