Dan Abraham joins the University of Denver and the Lawyering Process program from New York, where he was a Senior Court Attorney for the New York Supreme Court and an adjunct professor at New York Law School. At the New York Supreme Court, Dan worked on complex commercial actions filed in the Commercial Division. These cases involved legal issues concerning financial and investment banking institutions, mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, construction, employment, labor, communications, insurance, professional malpractice, antitrust, and international trade. At New York Law School, Dan spent the last three years teaching Legal Reasoning and Writing, and Written and Oral Advocacy.

Prior to his appointment to the New York Supreme Court, Dan was an Associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman, LLP (now Bingham McCutchen LLP), where his practice involved regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings nationwide and internationally. Dan represented telecommunications companies in regulatory proceedings and commercial disputes, advised Internet start-up companies, and was involved in antitrust litigation. Dan also spent two years on a team representing a juvenile capital defendant, pro bono, on appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which resulted in the Court vacating his client’s death sentence.

Dan lives in Evergreen with his wife and son, and he looks forward to snowboarding and fishing in the Rocky Mountains.