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• CERCLA/Superfund
• Commercial Litigation
• Environmental Litigation
• Global Product Stewardship
• International Environmental Law
• Natural Resource Damages
• Product Regulation and Litigation Practice
• 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. Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. Federal District Courts: Southern District of New York; Southern District of California; District of Columbia
• American Bar Association, Chairman, Committee on Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts of the Section on Environment, Energy and Resources

• Spanish

Daniel M. Krainin is a Principal in the New York office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.  He was named to the 2011 and 2012 Super Lawyers list for the New York Metropolitan area, holds an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and serves as a Vice Chair of the ABA Environment Section's Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee.

Mr. Krainin's practice is concentrated in the areas of environmental and toxic tort litigation.  His 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. 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.   He served as Coordinating Counsel for a group of more than 30 defendants litigating more than a dozen such actions that were consolidated in New York State court.

• Toxic Tort Defense:  Mr. Krainin successfully defended two major trade associations against claims that they improperly promoted an agricultural chemical used on banana crops in Latin America, securing dismissal of the action early in the litigation.

• 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 won 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.

In addition to litigation, Mr. Krainin also counsels clients on developments pertaining to, and compliance with, federal and state environmental protection measures. He chairs the Firm's Subsurface Contamination Practice Group, is a member of the Firm's Ethics Committee and served on the Firm's Management Committee from 2006 to 2009.  He chaired the ABA Environment Section's Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee from 2010 to 2012. 

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 law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he won the school's 68th annual Moot Court Competition. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1991, receiving a B.A. with High Honors in the College of Social Studies.