About John M. Glionna

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Dan Baradat, the son of an immigrant laundryman, is a plain-spoken product of Tulare, a Central Valley farm town that in his boyhood, he likes to say, had more cows than people. The veteran plaintiff’s attorney pokes gentle fun at his agrarian hometown with its dairy farms—as a place “you can smell before you can see”—but he stays in touch with his working-class roots. He spends his days championing blue-collar families in medical malpractice and products liability cases at Baradat …