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Dan Himmelfarb

Washington, D.C.
202.263.3035
dhimmelfarb@mayerbrown.com
Practice: 
Appellate
Position: 
Partner
Admissions: 
District of Columbia
New York
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal, Second, Fourth and Seventh Circuits
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Cases

Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (2007)
Woodford v. Ngo (2006)
Northern Insurance Company of New York v. Chatham County, GA (2006)
Garcetti v. Ceballos (2006)
Johnson v. U.S. (2005)
Leocal v. Ashcroft (2004)
United States v. Dominguez Benitez (2004)
Castro v. United States (2003)
Wiggins v. Smith (2003)
Biography: 

Dan Himmelfarb joined Mayer Brown in 2007, after serving for five years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. During that time, he argued 10 cases and filed more than 150 briefs in the United States Supreme Court on a wide variety of issues. Before working in the Solicitor General's Office, Dan served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of crimes, tried eight cases (seven to juries), and argued 10 cases in the Second Circuit. Before joining the Department of Justice, Dan was in private practice for three years in New York.

Dan received his A.B. magna cum laude from Princeton University and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, Dan clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and for Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court.

Education: 
Yale Law School, JD, 1991; Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal
Princeton University, AB, magna cum laude, 1987