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

• Wesleyan University (B.A., College of Social Studies, with high honors, 1991)
• University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1997)
• William Minor Lile Moot Court Champion, 1997
• Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Articles Editor, 1996-97

• California (1997)
• District of Columbia (1999)
• New York (2003)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (2005)
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California (1997)
• U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (1999)
• American Bar Association, Vice Chairman, Committee on Agricultural Management of the Section on Environment, Energy and Resources
• American Bar Association, Committee on International Environmental Law of the Section on International Law
• American Branch of the International Law Association, Environmental Committee
• New York State Bar Association

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Daniel M. Krainin is a Principal with Beveridge & Diamond, P.C., a member of the Firm's Management 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:

• Products Liability Litigation: Mr. Krainin is part of a team of Beveridge & Diamond attorneys handling more than 60 products liability cases related to alleged groundwater contamination involving a gasoline additive. The cases are consolidated for pre-trial proceedings in a Multi-District Litigation pending in federal court. Mr. Krainin handles and coordinates key aspects of the fact and expert discovery, motions practice and defense of these cases.

• Hazardous waste site remediation: Mr. Krainin is counsel to a group of potentially responsible parties (PRPs) that are cooperating in the cleanup of a major inactive hazardous waste site in western New York. In that capacity, he secured a favorable liability ruling on the group's Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) contribution claim against a major non-cooperating PRP. See Pfohl Bros. Landfill Site Steering Committee v. Allied Waste Systems, Inc., 255 F. Supp. 2d 134 (W.D.N.Y. 2003) 

• 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. His recent work includes counseling U.S.-based agricultural and pharmaceutical companies and trade associations on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. He also actively counsels U.S.-based electronics companies and a major industry trade association regarding electronics product stewardship and take-back initiatives, as well as packaging waste recycling measures in North America (U.S. and Canada).

In addition to the above counseling and representation 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.