Daniel L. Klein
Partner
Experience
Daniel L. Klein is an experienced trial attorney whose practice features high-exposure and complicated personal injury lawsuits as well as environmental litigation and toxic torts. Dan’s cases run the spectrum, ranging from defending a small plow company in a slip-and-fall on ice, to defending a nationwide, multi-million-dollar fitness chain in a Legionnaires cluster, with all manner of businesses in between. Having practiced for more than 20 years, he draws on more than a decade of handling complex cases as an economic crimes prosecutor with the Bronx District Attorney’s Office. He has extensive experience conducting depositions, hearings, arbitrations, meditations, and trials.
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Experience Highlights
As an Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, Daniel took nearly 25 trials to verdict. He handled economic crime cases involving forged documents, money laundering, identity theft, credit card fraud, housing and mortgage fraud, and auto theft, among others.
Daniel was involved in negotiating resolutions to complicated matters involving confidential informants, large corporations, the elderly, and special victims; working with private and municipal entities to organize, direct, and execute multi-faceted investigations in areas including embezzlement and contractor fraud; and representing the District Attorney in courtroom litigation, arraignment proceedings, and post-trial sentencing. He was chosen by the District Attorney’s Office from more than 300 attorneys to be cross-designated as a Special Federal Prosecutor with the Southern District of New York in United States v. Rabinda Singh.
Background
Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
Education
- Brooklyn Law School, J.D., 2001
- Judge Doris A. Thompson Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy
- Moot Court Honors Society
- Rutgers University, B.A., 1998
Training and Certifications
- Department of Labor OSHA-10 Construction Training
News & Knowledge
Publications & Events
- “CLM National: April 2021,” CLM Magazine, April 21, 2021
RECENT INSIGHTS
January 3, 2023
April 17, 2019