Dan is the founder of MALIS|LAW and has been trying and litigating simple and complex personal injury matters before juries, judges, and appellate courts for nearly 40 years.
Dan is a magna cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University with Honors in History, and a graduate of Boston University School of Law. He is also a member of the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum for having been lead counsel for several cases resolved for multiple millions of dollars, and has also been nominated and accepted to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Attorneys for Massachusetts. A trial practice innovator, he prides himself in finding creative, out of the box solutions to complex legal and medical issues. He has presented on varying topics involving trial practice and personal injury law in professional accreditation seminars, and has lectured on appellate advocacy, personal injury, and civil procedure at the University of Massachusetts Law School and the Massachusetts School of Law. He participates annually in judging the Regional Law School Moot Trial Court Competition for the American Association of Justice.
An advocate of lawyers’ involvement in their community, he has served on the boards of several local charitable organizations, including the Cambridge Housing Assistance Alliance, which provides subsidies for homeless and near-homeless individuals and families, and Community Call, Inc., an organization promoting alternative education programs for at risk youth. In his personal life, Dan is an accomplished classical music singer who has performed as a choral member and soloists in several choruses in the Boston area, and with the Boston Philharmonic
Orchestra in Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall. . In 2013, he organized the first benefit concert for victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, “One Community, Once Voice” at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, hosting over 1000 singers in a performance of the Brahms “Requiem”.
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