Dan Halloran

About me:

Dan was born, Astoria, New York March 16, 1971. Having spent the better part of his childhood inculcated with tales of chivalry, Irish myth and legend, and a personal code of honor born of four generations of Irish Cop, in typically proud Irish household, with pretensions to their clans coats-of-arms, and well aware of their Norman heritage, Dan learned his peoples history as well as that of his family, at the foot of his elders. He attended Fordham University in the Honors program from 1989-1990, majoring in Anthropology and Criminal Justice, while on an R.O.T.C. scholarship. He withdrew from college and joined the New York City Police Department from 1990-1992. In 1992 he resigned and entered private sector employment with Ogden Allied Security, Government Contracts Division, as an Off-Hours Inspector and Road Supervisor, and returned to school in 1995 and obtained a Bachelors of Arts in History and Anthropology in 1997 from City University of New York at Queens College, graduating cum laude and completing all but dissertation on a Master of Arts degree in Archaeology. He performed field research in County Cork, Ireland in 1997 on the Norman and Viking periods impact on Germanic and Brehon Common Law. He was published in anthropological journals. He then attended St. Johns University School of Law on scholarship, earning a Juris Doctor in 2000; he was President of the Federalist Society, Secretary of the Student Bar Association, a member of the Irish Law Society, Senior Bar and Board of the Criminal Law Institute; Best Advocate in the Frank J. Rogers Criminal Trial Competition, and RunnerUp two-years in a row at the Edward J. Hart Civil Trial Competitions. These successes placed him in the Whos Who Among American Law Students for 1998-1999. In 1998 he interned as a clerk for the Honorable Robert J. Hanophy, A.J.S.C. in New York State Supreme Court, Queens County, Criminal Term TAP-C, one of three Capital Case qualified parts of the Court. In the spring of 1999 he was hired by the Office of the Bronx County District Attorney, as a Legal Assistant in the Grand Jury and Criminal Court Bureaus. In September of 1999 he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in that office and was assigned to the Appeals Bureau. In January of 2000, he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in Queens County and assigned to the Criminal Court Bureau. Thereafter he was accepted into the LL.M. program of the State University of New York at Buffalo with a tuition remission scholarship, and commenced post-doctoral studies in the fall of 2000. In October of 2000 he was appointed a Special Assistant District Attorney in the Erie County District Attorneys Office and assigned to the Homicide Bureau. He completed studies for the LL.M. program in Criminal Law in the spring of 2001, whereupon he returned to New York City and became associated with the Firm. Dan has been published in legal journals on numerous occasions. Notably he co-edited the Fall 1999 New York State Bar Association, Criminal Justice Journal article, A History of Criminal Law; and authored the Sections from Germanic Origins through the Colonial Period. He likewise co-edited and co-authored the Spring 2000 editions examination of Miranda Rights in New York, in Life After Dickerson. Currently he is a member of the Criminal Defense Bar and the International Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, Association of Federal Criminal Defense Attorneys, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the New York State Defenders Association, and the New York County Bar Association. He holds a Vigil Honor from the Boy Scouts of America and is a member of the National Eagle Scout Association. He is admitted to practice in New York State and the U.S. Federal Courts of the Eastern, Northern, Western and Southern Districts of New York, and the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, and is a member if the Felony 18B Panel of New York City Assigned Counsel Plan. Languages: German, ASL, Old Norse, Old English..... Dan is also a scholar of pre-christian Northern Europe writing on the Dansk-Norman branch of Germanic culture and belief.