DAN serves as chair of the firm’s Information Technology group.  He advises both publicly and closely-held companies on matters of information technology (IT) and intellectual property law.  He offers skilled counsel in the IT arena, including computer software development, license and acquisition agreements, outsourcing, hosting and Application Service Provider transactions and other Internet, Web site and e-commerce issues. 

Dan also handles copyright and trademark applications and represents clients in all forms of intellectual property and IT-related dispute resolution.  He uses intellectual property law, contracting practices and dispute resolution techniques related to information technology to help clients - whether buyers or sellers of IT goods and services - protect and build their businesses.

Dan is active outside of his practice as well.  He serves as an adjunct faculty member of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he lectures on intellectual property and information technology issues.  He is board chair of the Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation (Cleveland’s Film Commission), a board member of NEOSA (né the Northeast Ohio Software Association) and a graduate of Leadership Cleveland.  Dan is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan, Ohio and American Bar Associations.

Dan previously was employed as a systems analyst with General Motors’ Packard Electric Division and served as a law clerk to Chief U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti.  He was also a member of the Attorney General’s Honors Program and a trial attorney with the U.S. Justice Department before joining Jones Day.  Dan served as Director of the Office of School Monitoring and a Special Master for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.  He began his tenure with Calfee in 1994, becoming a partner in 1998.