Dan Carnie

Daniel Carnie’s practice focuses on representing corporations and individuals in complex civil litigation related to intellectual property, employment, secured transactions and mass torts. Mr. Carnie has represented his clients in state and federal courts, as well as in bankruptcy proceedings.

Recently, Mr. Carnie has assisted financial institutions, directors and officers, commercial vendors, investors and other parties in a variety of matters in court, including:

• securing the dismissal with prejudice of a lawsuit involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation by a company’s founder
• resolving a dispute to enforce a bank’s set-off rights under its private-label credit card program
• defending a payment processing company from a legal presumption that its ordinary course fees were fraudulent transfers
• representing the court-appointed representative for the holders of future claims in an asbestos manufacturer’s insolvency proceedings
• representing a Canadian mining company seeking recognition in the United States for its foreign insolvency proceeding

Before entering private practice, he earned a Ph.D. in literature and taught writing at the University of California, Irvine, which influences his work as a litigator and regularly guides him in crafting highly effective arguments for his clients.