Daniel MCMILLAN
Dan McMillan is the leader of Jones Day's global construction practice, representing owners, design professionals, and contractors in large construction disputes and in negotiating and drafting the full panoply of contracts for major projects. His many high-profile construction cases include serving as lead defense counsel in the litigation involving the Millennium Tower (aka the leaning tower of San Francisco), which was featured on a segment of 60 Minutes. He also litigated the first case in the United States to result in a published decision concerning a Disputes Review Board (DRB), prevailing for the owner both at trial and on appeal.
Clients trust Dan with high stakes construction arbitrations and litigation. For example, Dan served as lead counsel for a Chevron affiliate in an UNCITRAL arbitration defeating the contractor’s claims for tens of millions of dollars in additional compensation and recovering millions of dollars for the owner in a dispute involving design and construction of an oil-production pipeline located offshore of Angola, Africa. Most recently, Dan served as lead counsel for a Fortune 500 Contractor in an ICC arbitration involving competing claims between the contractor and owner arising out of the design and construction of an LNG facility. The arbitration award rejected more than $1 billion in claims asserted by the owner and the contractor secured payment of more than $370 million, including attorney’s fees.
Dan has been recognized as a Law360 MVP in Construction (2021 and 2025), is ranked as a Hall of Fame Lawyer in Construction by Legal 500, and is a Band 1 ranked Construction Lawyer by Chambers USA. Dan graduated first in his university class and his law school class. He also graduated top of his class when he earned his LL.M in Alternative Dispute Resolution from the University of Southern California. After law school, he clerked with Chief Judge Charles Clark, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
A frequent speaker and writer on issues of interest to the construction industry and the legal profession, his many publications include a more than 760 page construction law treatise entitled State and Local Construction Projects: An Attorney's Handbook (ABA 2017) and Disputes Review Board and the Construction Industry: The Song Remains the Same – Or Does It?, 22 U. Pepp. Disp. Res. L.J. 1 (2026).
