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.

Email Me or Call (518) 465-9500

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT POSITION

Associate Attorney

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Trial Practice
Business, Association and Partnership Disputes
Labor and Employment

EDUCATION

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

Honors:
Summa Cum Laude
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

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

CLERKSHIP

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

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

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

Rensselaer 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
2004 – 2006

CDWBA CLE Committee
Chair, 2010-2011

AWARDS

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

PRO BONO

Immigration Asylum
In-Motion, Justice for all Women
Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction