Daniel N. Arshack focuses on the criminal defense and civil rights of individuals and businesses in state and federal courts in the United States and in various jurisdictions throughout the world. He graduated from Brandeis University and the University of Stockholm in 1978 and started his career as a systems analyst at Abt Associates, a social science think-tank in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He obtained his law degree from the Antioch School of Law in 1983 and thereafter practiced criminal and civil rights law in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Arshack focuses his practice on criminal defense, civil rights protection and complex civil litigation, and has successfully defended a wide range of cases, from securities fraud and international arms-dealing to homicide and malpractice. Mr. Arshack has represented thousands of clients in over thirty-six years of practice both as a Public Defender and in private practice. He has successfully fought for his clients in every level of court throughout New York, in other states, in the Supreme Court and in courts throughout the world. Mr. Arshack was US counsel in a case at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at the Hague and appeared on behalf of a client, as Learned Counsel, in Kenya.

In 1991, while also managing his own criminal defense practice, Mr. Arshack was instrumental in starting the Manhattan School for Children, an award-winning public school in New York which both of his children attended. In 1996, Mr. Arshack, under contract to the City of New York, co-founded a new public defender’s office in The Bronx known as The Bronx Defenders and thereafter supervised 25 lawyers and the necessary support staff to handle 13,000 cases per year.

Mr. Arshack served as President of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and is Co-Chairman of its International Committee. He was the elected representative to the Council of the International Criminal Bar and was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association – USA. He was a founding member of the board of New York Sun Works and of the Center for Restorative Justice. He also is a board member of the Catskill Community Center in Catskill, New York. For many years he has taught trial advocacy at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.