Dan was born in Sioux City and grew up on a farm in Hubbard, Nebraska and has always called Siouxland home. A 1981 graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Law, he also received his undergraduate degree there in 1978.
Dan has been a member of the firm since 1981 and has a general practice, including, but not limited to, employment, insurance and personal injury and trial law. He practices extensively in the federal courts of Iowa and Nebraska.
Dan is a current member of the American Bar Association (section of Tort and Insurance and Litigation), Federal, Iowa State, Nebraska State, and Woodbury County and Dakota County Bar Associations, serving as president of the Dakota County Bar Association in 1994. In 2010, Dan was elected to the Board of Governors for The Iowa State Bar Association for a six-year term. He is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Iowa and Nebraska. Dan served on the board of the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys from 1988-1996.
