Bar
Admissions
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern and
Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, First, Second and Third
Circuits
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Legal
Career
Established Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP in 1980
Solo Practitioner (1977-1980)
Associate, Baer & McGoldrick, now Schulte
Roth & Zabel (1975-1977)
Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison (1973-1975)
Author/Speaker
Dan has combined a busy law practice with frequent writing and speaking about
the law. He has published five non-fiction books, more than a dozen law review
articles, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. His work, which has also appeared
in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune and
Boston Globe, has been cited by a number of courts, including the U.S.
Supreme Court.
Author:
Books
Partial Verdicts (Author House, 2008)
The Elsinore
Appeal: People v. Hamlet (St. Martin's Press, 1996) (co-author)
| "an
offbeat intellectual pleasure" -- New York Law Journal |
Kill
All the Lawyers? Shakespeare's Legal Appeal (Princeton University Press, 1994)
| "excellent
. . . the distinctive voice of an American lawyer [who] speaks to our era in the
polished cadences of an experienced advocate, who is as much at home in the courtroom
as in the world of Shakespeare" -- Yale Journal of Law and Humanities |
Thinking Under Fire: Courtroom Lawyers and Their Impact on American History
(Dodd Mead, 1987)
| "presents
a vivid biography of great lawyers . . . as well as delivering with masterful
feel the historical significance of the cases each lawyer
presented" -- South Bend Tribune |
The
Music of the Laws (Everest House, 1982)
| "a
book that deftly and lovingly discusses the law and those who build their careers
on it" -- Wall Street Journal |
Articles
(partial list since 2000)
"English Revolution Redux," New
York Law Journal Magazine, Dec. 2007
"Dear Diary . . . "
New York Law Journal Magazine, May 2007
"Does
Love of Literature Promote International Law?" 12 ILSA Journal of International
and Comparative Law 491 (2006)
"The
Roberson Privacy Controversy," Journal of the Historical Society of the
Courts of the State of New York (Issue No. 4; 2006)
"The Myths of Thane Rosenbaum," 4 Cardozo Public Law, Policy
and Ethics Journal 33 (2006)
"No Ruling Without Reading!"
New York Law Journal Magazine, Feb. 2006
Review of "Abogado"
by Martin Gallin, New York County Lawyer, Dec. 2005
Review of
“Into It” by Lawrence Joseph, New York Law Journal, Oct. 21,
2005
“One Nation (Under God) . . .,” New York Law Journal
Magazine, Oct. 2005
“Julien Sorel Is Us,” New York
Law Journal Magazine, May 2005
"Mark Twain's Evidence,"
72 Tennessee Law Review 1 (2005) (on the Shakespeare authorship debate)
Review of "Lincoln at Cooper Union" by Harold Holzer, New
York Law Journal, Aug. 10, 2004
"Draft All Barlows," New
York Law Journal, June 16, 2004
"The Cardozo Mystery,"
75 New York State Bar Journal (No. 4) 47 (2003)
"Abolish
Private Schools," New York Law Journal, Dec. 29, 2003
"In
Praise of the Solo and Small Firm Practice," New York Law Journal,
Nov. 10, 2003 (Special Section)
"Law and Literature -- Louis Begley,"
New York Law Journal, Oct. 29, 2003
"Is Nepotism Sending
the U.S. Back to the Middle Ages?" Baltimore Sun, Oct. 12, 2003
"Easy Reading," New York Law Journal Magazine, June 2003
"Is 'Shyster' Anti-Semitic?" New York Law Journal, May 21,
2003
"William O. Douglas -- An Inspiring, Maddening American,"
Baltimore Sun, Mar. 16, 2003
"Lawyers Rule," New
York Law Journal Magazine, Feb. 2003
Entry on "Literature and
Crime," Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (Macmillan 2d ed. 2002)
"The $1.2 Million That Just Fell Off the Truck," Baltimore Sun,
Oct. 13, 2002
"Auchincloss' Talents," New York Law Journal,
Oct. 10, 2002
"The Latest Legal Fiction," New York County
Lawyer, Apr. 2002
"Mortimer Chose Muse Over Law," New
York Law Journal, Apr. 25, 2002
"Commercial Division
v. CPLR," New York Law Journal, Mar. 6, 2002
"Putting
the Second Commandment in Context," Forward, Jan. 4, 2002
"A Comment on Prof. Halper's Reading of Measure for Measure," 13
Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 265 (2001)
"Life Imitates
Art with Secret Military Tribunals," New York Law Journal,
Nov. 28, 2001
"An Unlikely Muse," New York Lawyer,
Oct. 2001
"Icons Beget Iconoclasts," American Lawyer,
Sept. 2001
"Prague: Breathing 'Reality' Into Law,"
New York Law Journal, Feb. 15, 2001
"Of Death and Taxes,"
American Lawyer, Jan. 2001
"He Knew More: Balzac and the Law,"
21 Pace Law Review 301 (2000)
"Protect and Defend: High Lawyerly
Verisimilitude," Baltimore Sun, Dec. 17. 2000
"Bartleby
the Associate," New York Law Journal, Sept. 6, 2000
"Improve
Your Writing, Gain a Potent Weapon," New York Law Journal, Sept. 5,
2000 (Special Section)
"Why Are All These Lawyers Setting U.S. Public
Policy?" Baltimore Sun, Aug. 13, 2000
Speaker
(since 2000)
Panelist, New York County Lawyer's Association (NYCLA) Program
on "Libel Tourism" (April 2008)
Panelist, Conference on "Free
Speech in an Age of Jihad" sponsored by Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
and the New Criterion (April 2008)
Discussion Leader, Program on Measure
for Measure at Brooklyn Inn of Court (November 2007)
Discussion
Leader, Boston Federalist Society Program on "Shakespeare and the Art of
Judging" (June 2007)
Moderator, NYCLA Law & Literature Award Ceremony
for Anthony Lewis (May 2007)
Speaker, Joint NYC Bar Association – NYCLA Program on An American
Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (November 2006)
Panelist, 1st Annual
Fordham Law Film Festival (October 2006)
Trial Counsel for King Lear,
moot court at Cornell Medical School (September 2006)
Moderator, Panels
on Plea Bargaining and Attorney-Client Privilege, at Joint Conference with Le
Barreau de Lille and NYCLA, Lille, France (October 2005)
Speaker, “International Law and the Humanities” at Program Sponsored
by the International Law Association (October 2005)
Appellate counsel for State of Denmark, moot court appeal based on Hamlet
at the Shakespeare Society, New York City (November 2004)
Moderator,
Program on "So You Want to be a Fiction Writer" (NYCLA) (June 2004)
Speaker, "Mark Twain's Evidence" at Conference on "Who Wrote
Shakespeare? An Evidentiary Puzzle," University of Tennessee College of Law
(June 2004)
Moderator, Program on "Why Our Legal System Fails to
Do What Is Right," Association of the Bar of the City of New York (April
2004)
Faculty Speaker, "Tips for Effective Legal Writing" at
NYCLA Continuing Legal Education Program (April 2004)
Moderator, NYCLA
Law & Literature Award Ceremony for Louis Begley (October 2003)
Moderator, NYCLA Law & Literature Award Ceremony for Louis Auchincloss (October
2002)
Appellate counsel for State of Denmark, moot court appeal based
on Hamlet at Yale Law School (October 2002)
Speaker, CLE program
at Yale Law School on "Representing Artists and Entertainers" (October
2002)
Lecture in French, "Balzac and the Law After 9/11: A New York
Lawyer's View" at award ceremony at the Palais de Justice in Paris (May 2002)
Counsel in "Pied Piper of Hamelin," moot court at American Bar
Association Litigation Section meeting in Phoenix, Arizona (May 2001)
Debated on "The Place of Balzac in the Law and Literature Canon," at
Law and Humanities Institute, New York City (April 2001)
Chair of Panel
Discussion on The Merchant of Venice at Suffolk Law School, Boston, sponsored
by the Federalist Society (February 2001)
Speaker at Program "How
To Use Your Legal Background to Launch a Writing Career," sponsored by The
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (February 2001)
Lecture,
Association France-Amériques in Paris, "Balzac and the Law" (October
2000)
Lecture, Association France-Amériques in Paris, "Balzac
and the Law" (June 2000)
Faculty Speaker, "Legal Writing"
at NYCLA Continuing Legal Education Program (April 2000)
Faculty Speaker,
"Legal Writing for Litigators" at NYCLA Continuing Legal Education Program
(February 2000)
Professional Activities and Associations
President, The Law & Humanities
Institute (1991-1998)
Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School (1988-1996)
(taught course on defamation, privacy and publicity)
Chair, Committee on Law
and Literature (1999-present) New York County Lawyers Association
Member,
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Committee on Military Justice/Military
Affairs (1975-1978)
Committee on Federal Legislation (1978-1981)
Committee
on Lectures and Continuing Education (1982-1985)
Committee on the Profession
(1988-1992)
Committee on Women in the Profession (1992-1995)
Member, Supreme
Court Historical Society
Member, Federal Bar Council
Member, New York
State Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association (Section on Litigation)
Education
J.D., Yale Law School (1973)
Note & Comment Editor, Yale Law Journal
B.S., City College of New York (1968)
Phi
Beta Kappa
Honors
in Economics
Felix
Cohen Prize in Legal Philosophy
Military
U.S. Army, 1969-1971 (draftee), Specialist Fifth Class
Legal Clerk in Staff Judge Advocate's Office, First Armored Division and First
Cavalry Division (special assistant to prosecutor in My Lai Massacre court-martial
of one of Lt. Calley's platoon sergeants)
Awarded Army Commendation Medal
