Dan L. Goldwasser

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Dan L. Goldwasser is an attorney practicing in the New York office of Vedder Price and was the previous chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Litigation Practice Group. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School.  In his 42 years of practice, he has been both a transactional lawyer and a litigator, having represented business clients in a wide variety of business transactions and defended accountants, lawyers and broker-dealers in over 150 liability cases and dozens of SEC and other disciplinary proceedings.

He has written and spoken extensively in both areas, having appeared in scores of seminars on accountant’s liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, business insurance, sales and resales of securities and a number of financial accounting issues. He also served as an Instructor of Law at the Columbia Law School, teaching a course on Understanding Financial Statements. He has written legal treatises on sales of restricted securities and accountants’ liability (both published by the Practising Law Institute). He is also the author of a chapter entitled “The Underwritten Offering” in Matthew Bender’s treatise entitled Securities Law Techniques , and three chapters on directors’ and officers’, accountants’ and lawyers’ liability insurance in Matthew Bender’s treatise entitled Liability Insurance .

Mr. Goldwasser has been an active member of the several professional associations and has served as the chair of the ABA’s Committee on Law & Accounting and subcommittee chairs of the ABA’s Committees on Federal Regulation of Securities and Professional Liability and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Committee on Securities Regulation. From 1999 to 2002 he served as the ABA co-chair to the National Conference of Lawyers and Certified Public Accountants.  He also served as one of the five public members of the Auditing Standards Board, the senior technical committee of the AICPA with authority to publish standards for the conduct of financial statement audits. The ASB statements are the authoritative standards for all non-public company audits. From 1994-2004 he was named by Accounting Today as one of the 100 most influential persons in accounting.

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• Capital Markets and Securities
• Capital Markets and Securities
• PCAB - Beyond the First Year
• Auditor Independence

• Accounting Law & Regulation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Commercial Litigation
• Ethical Standards
• Insurance Coverage Services for Insurance Companies
• Legal Liability
• Risk Management
• Securities Litigation
• Transactional Matters

• LL.B., Columbia Law School, 1966
• B.A., Harvard University, 1961

• New York, 1966
• U.S. District Court: Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1974
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 1974

• Member, Auditing Standards Board, the senior technical committee of the AICPA, that establishes the standards for all non-public companies.
• Member, Committee on Law & Accounting of the American Bar Association