Orrick Partner Daniel Rubens Named a “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyer Under 40” by National LGBT Bar Association

March.08.2019

Congratulations to Orrick partner Daniel Rubens, named today a “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyer Under 40” by the National LGBT Bar Association. The award recognizes 40 LGBT lawyers under 40 who have distinguished themselves in the profession and demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBTQ+ equality.

Danny, part of Orrick’s new partner class of 2019, has devoted hundreds of hours of pro bono service to social justice causes, particularly issues involving LGBTQ equality. He has worked closely with organizations such as the New York Legal Assistance Group’s LGBTQ Law Project, and is active in Orrick’s diversity and inclusion efforts, including our New York office’s LGBTQ affinity group and mentoring of the firm’s junior LGBTQ attorneys.

Over the past year and a half, he has been the lead attorney on amicus briefs in two closely-watched cases involving wedding vendors who denied services to same-sex couples based on religious objections – the Masterpiece Cakeshop case in the U.S. Supreme Court and more recently the Arlene’s Flowers case pending in the Washington State Supreme Court. In both cases, he drew attention to the corporate law consequences of permitting the business owners to seek to exemptions from anti-discrimination laws, using his experience in corporate and appellate law to support the position of the same-sex couples involved.

Danny joined Orrick as an associate in 2015, and previously clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The Bar Association will recognize him in August at the 2019 Lavender Law & Career Fair.

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Danny's practice focuses on appellate litigation. He has led the drafting on dozens of appellate briefs, and regularly argues appeals in state and federal courts. Danny has extensive trial litigation experience as well, with an emphasis on dispositive motions, preserving appellate issues, and developing creative legal strategies.

Danny’s work has covered a wide range of subject areas, including securities, bankruptcy, intellectual property, arbitration, class actions, and criminal law. He has a deep understanding of appeals and critical motions in financial services litigation, and in recent years has played a key role in representing financial institutions in major RMBS cases brought by trustees, investors, and monoline insurers. His financial services clients include Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Mr. Cooper, and Ocwen. He also represents leading technology companies in precedent-setting cases involving antitrust law and ballot initiatives, as well as other complex commercial litigation. In addition, Danny is an experienced bankruptcy litigator, having represented various debtors and creditors in fraudulent transfer cases and other contested insolvency-related matters involving U.S. and foreign law.

Danny is a member of the Second Circuit's pro bono panel and maintains an active pro bono practice focusing on criminal, immigration, racial justice, and LGBTQ+ rights matters in the Supreme Court and other appellate courts. He was recently recognized by the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association as a “Best LGBTQ+ Lawyer Under 40,” by the New York Law Journal as a Rising Star, and by LawDragon in its inaugural 500 X – The Next Generation listing. As part of his commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Danny serves as a mentor for The Appellate Project, an organization focused on empowering law students of color to thrive in the appellate field. He has also served as an Orrick ambassador for the Move The Needle Fund, a collaborative effort designed by Diversity Lab to create a more diverse and inclusive legal profession.

Before joining Orrick, Danny served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Following his clerkships, he was selected to represent the American Inns of Court as a Temple Bar Scholar in London.

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