Daniel C. Fleming is a Partner in the Firm's Princeton office. Mr. Fleming is a litigator who has tried over 100 jury trials to verdict. His trial experience includes trials involving commercial disputes, employment, civil rights, bankruptcy and international parental child abduction. He has also advised compa­nies on doing business in China and has spoken often before colleges and business organizations on this subject. 

Mr. Fleming has litigated a variety of adversary proceedings, including preferences, fraudulent transfers and objections to discharge. He has also litigated a wide range of contested matters, such as first day orders, cash collateral, adequate protection, relief from the automatic stay, executory contracts, objections to the adequacy of disclosure statements, and objections to plan confirmation. He is the co-author of an article appearing in the bankruptcy bar’s most notable journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. He has also donated his time to the community by speaking to Philadelphia citizens about bankruptcy at the Philadelphia Bar Association’s People’s Law School forum.

Mr. Fleming’s trial achievements include obtaining a multi-million dollar jury verdict for a commercial bank in a fraud and racketeering action in federal court. He has liti­gated and jury tried numerous actions for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and for the now-defunct Resolution Trust Corporation. He has also successfully tried contested foreclosure actions on behalf of commercial banks. He has also success­fully co-tried numerous employment and civil rights actions against public entities and is well suited to defending any such actions.

Mr. Fleming received his undergraduate degree from Villanova University in 1981, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages. He received his law degree in 1984 from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and earned the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law. Upon graduation from law school, he served as law clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. Hannon of the Su­perior Court of the District of Columbia. He is a member of the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Washington, DC Bars.

• Litigation

• J.D., Catholic University of America Law School (1984)
• B.A., Villanova University (1981)

• Admitted to practice: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Washington, D.C., Maryland
• Member, The District of Columbia Bar; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; National Employment Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute

REPORTED CASES

• Resolution Trust Corporation v. Pasquariello 16 F.3d 525 (3d Cir. 1994)
• Ivaldi v. Ivaldi, 672 A.2d 1226, 288 N.J.Super. 575 (App. Div. 1996)
• Lanni v. State of New Jersey, 177 F.R.D. 295 (D.N.J. 1998);
• Lockley v. State of New Jersey, 779 A.2d 1092, 344 N.J. Super. 1 (App.Div. 2001)
• Lockley v. State of New Jersey, 828 A.2d 869, 177 N.J. 413 (2003)
• Isetts v. Borough of Roseland, 835 A.2d 330, 364 N.J. Super. 247 (App.Div. 2003)

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Mr. Fleming has spoken often about trade issues in China, commercial law and employment law developments. Recently, he co-chaired an all-day seminar sponsored by ALM Media and spoke about diversity in the legal pro­fession. Mr. Fleming’s presentations include the following: