Dan Formeller is the Managing Partner of the firm and a member of the firm’s executive committee. As a trial lawyer based in the firm’s Chicago office, Dan focuses his practice on business litigation and the resolution of business disputes through mediation and arbitration. Dan handles a wide variety of complex business litigation and counseling, including intellectual property, state and federal securities actions, anti-trust, ERISA, class actions and directors and officers liability matters. He has been lead counsel in bench and jury trials in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He also provides advice and consultation to corporate and insurance clients concerning directors and officers and specialty risk insurance coverage issues.
Before entering law school, Dan served in the United States Navy. He is the former president of both the Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel (1994-1995) and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys (2005-2006). He has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Dan received the annual Defense Research Institute’s Fred Sievert award in 1994 for Outstanding Defense Bar Leader Of The Year and was selected for inclusion in Illinois Super Lawyers® in 2011 & 2012. Dan has achieved an AV® Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him at the highest level of excellence. Additionally, he has been acknowledged by his peers as a "Leading Lawyer" in a survey by Law Bulletin Publishing Company.