Managing Partner

When clients consider retaining the ideal lawyer they typically seek intelligence, professional skill as well as the diligence and willingness to know and understand the client’s business. Business owners know that Dana has lived the challenges they face. She is mindful of the business consequences of obtaining the best results, which she does with a flourish.

Dana is a smart team player and her thinking is aggressive.  She is unflappable and committed to putting the interests of her clients first.  She is a strategist capable of expertly shepherding her clients’ cases through either a negotiation or a courtroom.

Prior to private practice, Dana served as a confidential law clerk to the Honorable Susan Phillips Read, Judge of the New York State Court of Appeals, where she worked on a variety of criminal and civil appellate matters.

Education

Albany Law School Union University, Albany N.Y., 2005, J.D., Summa Cum Laude

State University of New York at Albany,1990 B.A. in English, minor in Business

Honors:

Dean Sponsler Honors Teaching Fellowship with Professor David Siegel
William McKinley Prize
Founders’ Scholarship
Selma Mintz Memorial Prize
Joseph Rosch Prize

Law Journals:

Albany Law Review – Associate Editor
Government, Law and Policy Journal – Executive Student Editor

Trial Teams:

National Trial Team Competition
National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers Cathy Bennett Trial Competition
Karen C. McGovern Senior Prize Trials

Clerkship

Judge Susan Phillips Read, New York State Court of Appeals, Albany, N.Y., 2005-2007

Professional Associations And Memberships

American Bar Association – Member

New York State Bar Association – Member

Capital District Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York – Board Member

Albany County Bar Association – Member

Rensselaer County Bar Association –  Member

Columbia County Bar Association – Member

Justinian Society –  Member

Committees

NYSBA Law Practice Management Committee
Member 2008 – present

Chair, Subcommittee on Professional Development 2009

NYSBA Special Committee on Civil Rights
Member 2006-2007

CDWBA Diversity and Gender Fairness
Member 2004 – 2006

CDWBA CLE Committee
Chair, 2010- present

Awards

2011 Capital District Woman’s Bar Association’s Outstanding New Lawyer Award

2013 Super Lawyers

Community Activities

Immigration Asylum

In-Motion, Justice for all Women

Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Practice Areas

• Corporate, Shareholder and Partnership Litigation

• Business and Commercial Litigation

• Real Estate Litigation

• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

• Appeals

• Employment Law

• Municipal Law

Bar Admissions

New York, 2006
U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 2006
U.S. Tax Court, 2006
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2007
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2007
U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 2008
U.S. Supreme Court, 2010