Dan Eisenberg

Dan began his legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, followed by six years at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where he represented large corporations and executives in complex commercial litigation, monitored a large municipal police force pursuant to a Department of Justice Consent Decree, successfully defended New York cultural institutions in cases involving disputed provenance of renowned fine art, and won a favorable settlement for residents of Chinatown who lost their property in a five-alarm fire.

Dan’s current engagements include representation of the former Chief Executive Officer of a maritime shipping company in a dispute over compensation, the families of incarcerated people who died on Rikers Island and in an upstate New York prison, a woman who was subjected to workplace sexual harassment and discrimination at a large bank, a former Mayor of New York City in a dispute with the City, and a man who served thirty years imprisonment after his wrongful conviction.

Dan’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The Marshall Project, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and other national and local media outlets. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Alliance of Families for Justice, a non-profit organization that supports and advocates for incarcerated people and their families. He has guest lectured on Congressional investigations at Cardozo School of Law and Brooklyn Law School and taught criminal procedure as an Adjunct Professor at St. Francis College.