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Daniel R. Leathers

Associate

"Justice means pursuing redress, so that you may live in security so far as possible, knowing that the judicial system was established to deter harm and, as nearly as possible, to make one whole again."

 

-Daniel R. Leathers

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Attorneys

Daniel is an associate in our New York office with a practice focused on personal injury and mass torts as well as consumer class actions. He is currently working on the Zimmer Durom Cup litigation, the ING Direct consumer class action, as well as various other personal injury matters, including Simply Thick and transvaginal mesh.

Daniel completed his J.D., cum laude, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, and served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. During law school, Daniel was a summer associate at the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, where he aided with litigation on behalf of low-income consumers victimized by fraudulent business practices.  Daniel also worked previously as a law clerk at Zipkin Whiting Co., a plaintiff-side employment law practice.

After graduation from law school, Daniel clerked for the Honorable Carol Higbee, a New Jersey Superior Court Civil Division Presiding Judge, assisting Judge Higbee on numerous cases involving complex and unique issues in pharmaceutical and environmental mass torts.

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Education

  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2009)

    Executive Articles Editor, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

     

    Pennsylvania State University (B.A., in History & Journalism, 2005)

Memberships

  • New Jersey State Bar Association

  • New York State Bar Association

  • Pennsylvania State Bar Association

  • American Association for Justice

  • New Jersey Association of Justice

  • American Bar Association

Admissions

  • New Jersey

  • New York

  • Pennsylvania

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