Former DOJ Appellate Attorney Daniel Lerman Joins Kramer Levin as Deputy Chair of Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Practice

Kramer Levin announced that Daniel N. Lerman, a former appellate attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, has joined the firm as a partner in its nationally recognized Litigation Department. He will litigate matters at both the trial and appellate levels and serve as deputy chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation practice and be resident in the firm’s Washington, DC, office.

During his six years with the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division of the DOJ, Dan briefed numerous U.S. Supreme Court cases, argued on behalf of the United States in federal courts of appeals across the country and advised on complex appellate issues.

At Kramer Levin, he will focus on trial and appellate matters involving criminal law, intellectual property law, constitutional law, commercial litigation, securities law, bankruptcy law, environmental law and administrative law, drawing on his extensive public and private sector experience and his Ph.D. in biology. Throughout his career, Dan has worked across a wide array of industries, including pharmaceuticals, health care, transportation, technology, energy, hedge funds and many others. 

Early in his career, Dan clerked for renowned Judges William C. Bryson and David S. Tatel of the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Federal and DC circuits, respectively.

Prior to serving with the DOJ, Dan spent eight years as a trial and appellate litigator at the DC litigation boutique Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, which combined with Kramer Levin in 2022. He was promoted to partner at Robbins Russell in 2017.

While at Robbins, Russell, Dan argued and won before the U.S. Supreme Court a challenge on behalf of the American Trucking Associations to the City of Los Angeles’ Clean Air Action Plan regulations imposed at the Port of Los Angeles, securing a unanimous decision from the Court that reversed the district court and Ninth Circuit decisions and found that the regulations were preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994.