Prior to law school, Dan worked for a major oil company as a process engineer and environmental engineer.  While in law school, Dan had clerkships with the legal department of a major pharmaceuticals firm and the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division.  Upon graduating, Dan practiced environmental law in private practice from 1993 until 1996, where he represented clients from a wide variety of industries on federal, state, and local environmental matters.  These industry sectors included chemicals, specialty minerals, pulp & paper, iron & steel, and textiles, among others.  Dan also represented buyers, sellers, and lenders on environmental issues associated with real estate and other business transactions.  He then served as in-house counsel from 2002 until 2017 for a publicly traded chemical manufacturing and building products company where he advised the company on environmental and OSHA compliance issues, supported M&A transactions, commercial real estate transactions, re-financings, and capital projects, and managed the company’s environmental tort litigation.  For over ten years, Dan also served as the company’s corporate risk manager.