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Dan Meyer

Partner

Professional Overview

  • Practice focused on defending professionals (primarily lawyers, insurance producers, and design professionals) in malpractice litigation, and on representing condominium and homeowner associations on corporate and litigation affairs;
  • Served as National Coordinating Counsel for several corporations in environmental litigation;
  • Lead counsel in more than 20 jury trials in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, California, Pennsylvania and Connecticut

Education

Dan received his Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in 1996, where he served on the Executive Board of the Moot Court Society and participated in moot court competitions involving national security and environmental responsibilities. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Purdue University in 1992.

Professional Organization Memberships

- Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute:

Vice-Chair, Professional Liability Committee (Fall 2009- Present)
Editor, DRI Professional Liability Committee Newsletter (Fall 2008-Fall 2009)
Member, Steering Committee of the Professional Liability Committee (Summer 2007-Present)

- Professional Liability Underwriter's Society
- Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers

News, Publications, & Speeches

  • Moderator, Current Trends in Claims Against Lawyers, Presented to Professional Lines Attorney Network (April 2011, Hartford, Connecticut)
  • Co-Author, A Case for Business Accountability: Statutorily Limited Duty to Procure by Illinois Insurance Producers, Agents of America Newsletter (January 2011)
  • Presenter, Current Trends and Developments in Lawyers Professional Liability Claims, given to Professional Lines Attorney Network (October 2010)
  • Moderator. Who Let the Data Out??? Professional Exposure for Data Breaches and Releases, Defense Research Institute Annual Meeting (October 2010)
  • Presenter, The New Rules of Professional Conduct - Reporting Professional Misconduct, given to the Chicago Bar Association (June 2010)
  • Co-Presenter, Employment Liability Claims Unique to Law Firm Operations, given to insurer panel meeting (June 2010)
  • Presenter, Technology and Legal Malpractice, given to the Lake County Bar Association, Technology Committee (June 2010)
  • Presenter, Legal Malpractice Concerns for the Family Lawyer, given to the Lake County Bar Association, Family Law Committee (January 2010)
  • Presenter, The New Rules of Professional Conduct - Reporting Professional Misconduct, given to the Chicago Bar Association (December 2009)
  • Co-Presenter, Swords and Shields: Offensive Means of Defense, given to Professional Lines Attorney Network (September 2009)
  • Presenter, A Thoroughly Random Discussion of Illinois Legal Malpractice Issues, given to various LPL claims departments (beginning October 2008)
  • Co-Presenter, FINRA Arbitration: The Practical Reality, given to Professional Lines Attorney Network (September 2008)
  • Presenter, Illinois Insurance Producers: Standards of Care, given to various insurance-producer-negligence claims departments (beginning November 2007)
  • Contributing Co-Author, The Consultant's Role in Construction Claims and Litigation, Construction Litigation (IICLE - 2d Ed. 2006)
  • Presenter, No Good Deed Ever Goes Unpunished: Avoiding the Union of Divorce and Legal Malpractice, given to the Lake County Bar Association, Family Law Committee (November 2006)
  • Co-Presenter, Insured Versus Insured Exclusions - Strategies and Tactics in Director & Officer Litigation, given to USLaw Network (March 2005)
  • Editor, Illinois Construction Law (Aspen Publishing 2002)
  • Co-Presenter, Contractual Risk Transfer in Construction Agreements, given to Northern Illinois Building Contractors' Association (November 2000)
  • Co-Author, The Discovery Rule - Defendants' Perspective, International Association of Defense Counsel Toxic Tort Committee Monthly Newsletter (1999)

Practice Areas

  • Deposition Room
    Commercial Litigation

    It sometimes seems to us that the people who are writing contracts are stuck in...

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    Condominium Associations

    As the saying goes "A man's home is his castle". If the castle is a condominium, then nowadays that castle is regularly under siege ...

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    Lawyers & Accountants

    We can only imagine how the poor professional must cringe when...