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dwallach@becker-poliakoff.com
Professional Experience
Mr. Wallach is the lawyer to see for a big appeal. He has significant appellate law experience, and has practiced before a number of appellate tribunals, including the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals, the Florida Supreme Court and the Florida district courts of appeal. Mr. Wallach has handled appeals involving a broad range of subject matters, including civil rights, constitutional law, land use and zoning, municipal law, business law, employment law, tort law, and intellectual property rights. Mr. Wallach also serves as the Vice-Chair of the prestigious Appellate Advocacy
General Committee of the ABA’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section. In addition to his appellate practice, Mr. Wallach concentrates in the area of complex federal litigation, where he has developed a niche handling cases involving the federal securities laws, civil rights, and religious discrimination. He is AV rated (the highest level attainable) by Martindale Hubbell.
Prior to joining the firm in December 2000, Mr. Wallach gained significant litigation and trial experience with a prominent New York litigation boutique, where his clients included Donald Trump, Carl Icahn, Bob Arum, and several professional boxers, including former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez.
Mr. Wallach began his legal career as the judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jacob Mishler, a federal district court judge and the former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Upon the conclusion of his one-year federal judicial clerkship, Mr. Wallach joined the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he was a member of the Business and Securities Litigation Department (which, at the time, was the largest law firm practice group devoted exclusively to the practice of federal securities litigation). While there, Mr. Wallach worked on a wide range of cases arising under the federal securities laws, including class and derivative action lawsuits filed against issuers and underwriters of securities.
Activities & Memberships
Mr. Wallach is a member of the Radio and Television News Directors Association. He has also served as a volunteer attorney with the Lawyers Committee on Human Rights and the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.
Bar Admissions
Florida, 2001
New York, 1992
Publications
Co-author, “Twelve Deadly Sins: An Owner's Guide to Avoiding Liability for Implied Obligations During the Construction of a Project,” Construction Lawyer, Fall 2007
Q&A With Becker & Poliakoff's Daniel Wallach, Law360
Co-author, "Risky Business: The Active Interference Exception to No Damage for Delay Clauses", Construction Lawyer, Winter, 2003.
Co-author, "Lawyers Serving on Boards of Client: A Survey of the Problems", Insights, April 1993, Vol. 7, No. 4.
Co-author, “Statutory Exception to Barton Doctrine Narrowly Construed by the First Circuit,” Commercial Law League, Bankruptcy Section, August 2004
Court Admissions
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
United States District Court, Western District of New York
Education
J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1991, Hofstra Law Review Editor
B.S., Hofstra University, 1984 |
