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Daniel Segal
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Practice Groups:
Insurance Coverage
Education
Litigation
Education:
Harvard Law School
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets, 27th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6933
Phone: 215.496.7003
Fax: 215.568.0300
Email: dsegal@hangley.com
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Biography

Daniel Segal is Chair of the firm’s Litigation department. Dan’s practice includes civil litigation involving defamation, First Amendment, intellectual property, health care, professional ethics, education, civil rights, securities, antitrust, academic research misconduct, and employment.

Dan is a 1973 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Dan received his BA magna cum laude in 1968 from Yale University. In 1969, he received a master’s degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. From 1974 to 1975, Dan served as law clerk to the Honorable David Bazelon, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1975 to 1976, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. From 1976 to 1979, Dan was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was also the Thomas A. O’Boyle Adjunct Professor of Law at the Law School and has taught constitutional law on a regular basis.

Dan is a past president of the Juvenile Law Center, the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education, and Akiba Hebrew Academy. He is also a past Chair of the Philadelphia Soviet Jewry Council. He is currently Vice President of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia and President of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Hillel Foundation. He is a member of New Israel Fund’s International Board.

Dan is active in the Philadelphia Bar Association, having served as a member of its Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention. He also serves as a Settlement Master for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and is a Master of the Bench of the University of Pennsylvania Law School American Inn of Court.

Education

Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973, JD, magna cum laude

London School of Economics, London, England, 1969, Master of Science in International Relations, with Honors

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968, BA, magna cum laude

Clerkship

The Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1975 – 1976

The Honorable David Bazelon, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1974 – 1975

Honors and Awards

  • Harvard Law Review, Executive Editor

Publications

Representative Cases

  • General Refractories Co. v. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., 806 A.2d 469 (Pa. Super. 2002)
  • Computer Aid, Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Co., 56 F. Supp. 2d 526 (E.D. Pa. 1999)
  • Conrail v. United States, 883 F. Supp. 1565 (Sp. Ct. R. R. R. A. 1995)
  •  McDermott v. Biddle, 647 A.2d 514 (Pa. 1994)
  • United States v. American Color & Chemical Corp., 858 F. Supp. 445 (M.D. Pa. 1994)
  • United States v. Chromatex, Inc., 832 F. Supp. 900 (M.D. Pa. 1993)
  • Lutz v. Chromatex, Inc., 730 F. Supp. 1328 (M.D. Pa. 1990)
  • Nazarewych v. Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd., 19 Phila. 429 (Pa. Super. 1989)
  • Craig v. Lake Asbestos of Quebec, Ltd., 843 F.2d 145 (3d Cir. 1988)
  • Goodman v. Lukens Steel Co., 482 U.S. 656 (1987)
  • Strick Corp. v. A.J.F. Warehouse Dist., Inc., 532 F. Supp. 951 (E.D. Pa. 1982)

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • International Member, New Israel Fund, 2007 – Present
  • President, Juvenile Law Center, 2000 – 2002
  • Philadelphia Bar Association
    • Chair, Judicial Selection Commission, 1997 – 1998
    • Co-Chair, Municipal Courts Committee, 1997 – 1998 
  • American Bar Association
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit 
  • Vice President, Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, 2003 – Present
  • President, University of Pennsylvania Hillel, 2005 – Present
  • President, Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education, 1998 – 2000
  • President, Akiba Hebrew Academy, 1993 – 1995
  • Co-Chair, Soviet Jewry Council of Philadelphia, 1983 – 1986

Teaching / Lecturing

  • “The Developing Relationship Between Insurance Claims Executives and Outside Counsel,” Computer Services Corporation Claims Executive Forum, 2007
  • “Philadelphia’s Legal Crisis,” Outdoor Advertising Association of America, 2006
  • “What’s at Stake in the Upcoming Supreme Court Term,” 2005
  • “Federalism,” Philadelphia Bar Association, 1998
  • “Federal Discovery,” Philadelphia Bar Association, 1997
  • “Federal Written and Oral Discovery,” Philadelphia Bar Association, 1996
  • “Confidentiality Orders,” Philadelphia Bar Association, 1995
  • “Public Access to Judicial Records,” Philadelphia Bar Association, 1994

Representative Clients

  • Anderson Kill & Olick
  • Charter Consolidated, Inc.
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia       
  • Chimeric Therapies, Inc.
  • Chromatex, Inc.
  • City of Philadelphia
  • Clear Channel, Inc.
  • Drexel University
  • General Refractories Company
  • Matflex, Inc.
  • Metroweek, Inc.
  • Philadelphia City Paper
  • Parmalat, Inc.
  • SGL AG
  • Temple University
  • University of Pennsylvania Medical School
  • Wellman Industries

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • District of Columbia
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Languages

  • Hebrew

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