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• Biotechnology
• Commercial Litigation
• Environmental Litigation
• International Environmental Law
• Superfund/CERCLA
• Toxic Tort and Product Liability

• Wesleyan University (B.A., College of Social Studies, with high honors, 1991)
• University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1997)

• California
• District of Columbia
• New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Federal District Courts: Southern District of New York; Southern District of California; District of Columbia
• American Bar Association, Vice Chairman, Committee on Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts of the Section on Environment, Energy and Resources

• Spanish

Daniel M. Krainin is a Principal with Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., a member of the Firm's Ethics Committee, and Co-Chair of the Firm's Subsurface Contamination and Superfund Practice Group. His practice is concentrated in the areas of litigation and international environmental law.

Mr. Krainin's recent litigation experience includes the following types of cases and responsibilities:

• Product Liability Litigation: Mr. Krainin is part of a team of Beveridge & Diamond attorneys handling dozens of product liability cases related to alleged groundwater contamination involving a gasoline additive.  He serves as Coordinating Counsel for a group of more than 30 defendants litigating nine such actions that have been consolidated in New York State court.  Mr. Krainin handles and coordinates key aspects of the fact and expert discovery, motions practice and defense of these cases, including successful briefing efforts that led to the exclusion of unreliable expert testimony.

• Toxic Tort Defense:  Mr. Krainin has a lead role in defending a trade association against claims that it improperly promoted an agricultural chemical used on banana plantations in Latin America.

• Hazardous Waste Site Remediation: On behalf of a group of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) that cooperated in the cleanup of a major hazardous waste site in western New York, Mr. Krainin secured a favorable liability ruling under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).

• Federal Preemption:  Representing ten airline defendants that had been sued for nuisance and trespass by landowners near a major regional airport, Mr. Krainin secured dismissal on federal preemption grounds early in the proceedings.

• Jury Trial Experience: Mr. Krainin served as lead trial attorney in a medical malpractice case that culminated in a jury trial. The firm handled the case on a pro bono basis on behalf of a formerly homeless woman.

• Other Civil Litigation Matters: Mr. Krainin also has extensive experience in a variety of other civil litigation matters, including mass tort claims, commercial litigation (such as breach of contract actions), and insurance recovery litigation.

As an active member of the International Section of the firm's Environmental Practice Group, Mr. Krainin has extensive experience counseling clients on developments pertaining to, and compliance with, international, national, and sub-national environmental protection measures.

In addition to the above activities, Mr. Krainin is an active member of various bar and legal service organizations. He currently serves as a Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy and Resources Committee on Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts. From 2000 to 2002, he served as a director of the D.C. Law Students In Court Program, Inc., which provides pro bono representation to tenants in landlord-tenant disputes and criminal defendants accused of misdemeanors.

Before joining Beveridge & Diamond, Mr. Krainin served as law clerk to Hon. Carlos R. Moreno, U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Krainin was editor-in-chief of the environmental news service Greenwire.

Mr. Krainin received his J.D. in 1997 from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he won the 68th annual William Minor Lile Moot Court Competition and served as articles editor of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. Mr. Krainin graduated from Wesleyan University in 1991, receiving a B.A. with High Honors in the College of Social Studies.