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Daniel K. Wiig - Associate |
Daniel K. Wiig is an associate with the firm's litigation department. He is a 2006 cum laude graduate of Brooklyn Law School's evening program where he was also a Fellow of the Center for the Study of International Business Law. He holds an MBA from Fordham University and a Bachelor's Degree, cum laude, from St. John's University. He began his legal career in the fall of 2006 as the Commercial Division Law clerk to Hon. Richard B. Lowe III of New York Supreme Court's Commercial Division. He then served as Law Clerk to Hon. Eileen Bransten, also of the Commercial Division, from 2007-2008. During the last two years of law school, he was the law clerk for the General Counsel's Office of Ernst & Young LLP. He took a leave of absence from that position in the summer 2005 when he joined the New York Stock Exchange's Division of Market Surveillance. Prior to and during the first two years of law school, Mr. Wiig worked in project management and client relations at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters). He was a compliance examiner for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Mangement before that.
Mr. Wiig is currently the Chair of the Subcommittee on the Judiciary for the New York County Lawyer's Association Young Lawyer's Committee; an Executive Committee Member of the New York City Bar Association's Young Lawyer's Section; and a Member of the Commercial Division Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Commercial and Federal Litigation Section. His article entitled "U.C.C. Article 2 Warranties and Internet-Based Transactions: Do The Article 2 Warranties Sufficiently Protect Internet-Based Transactions With Unprofessional Internet Merchants?" was published in the spring 2007 issue of the Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law.
He is admitted to the New York, New Jersey, and District of Columbia Bars, and to the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.