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Ian J. Dankelman Joins Freeborn’s Tampa Office as Associate in the Litigation Practice Group and Insurance/Reinsurance Industry Team

By on September 1, 2020 in Announcements

Ian DankelmanFreeborn & Peters LLP is pleased to announce that Ian J. Dankelman has joined the Firm as an Associate in the Litigation Practice Group and a member of the Insurance/Reinsurance Industry team. Dankelman focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Dankelman counseled notable commercial clients at a nationwide law firm that specialized in first-party property cases. For almost two years, Dankelman served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Elizabeth Kovachevich in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He began his legal career as an Assistant State Attorney in Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit where he tried over a dozen jury trials to verdict.

Dankelman received his Juris Doctor from the University of Florida Levin College of Law (cum laude), and his Bachelor of Science from Florida State University (magna cum laude). During his time at the University of Florida, he was the Internal Vice President of the Florida Moot Court Team. He is licensed in the state of Florida.

Known as a Litigation Powerhouse® with a Big Law-caliber reputation in litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States and internationally, Freeborn has a team of litigators that includes former federal and state prosecutors with decades of trial experience handling all areas of complex disputes and litigation. Freeborn’s Insurance/Reinsurance group serves all areas of the global insurance and reinsurance marketplace, and its members have immersed themselves in the intricacies of reinsurance custom and practice and the commercial relationships upon which participants in the industry depend. The Freeborn Insurance/Reinsurance practice has been recommended by the 2020 Legal 500 United States Guide for Insurance.

ABOUT FREEBORN & PETERS
Freeborn & Peters LLP is a full-service law firm with international capabilities and offices in Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.; Richmond, Va.; Springfield, Ill.; and Tampa, Fla. Freeborn is always looking ahead and seeking to find better ways to serve its clients. It takes a proactive approach to ensure its clients are more informed, prepared and able to achieve greater success – not just now, but also in the future. While the firm serves clients across a very broad range of sectors, it has also pioneered an interdisciplinary approach that serves the specific needs of targeted industries.

Freeborn’s major achievements in litigation are reflective of the firm’s significant growth over the last several years and its established reputation as a Litigation Powerhouse®. Freeborn has one of the largest litigation departments among full-service firms of its size – currently with more than 90 litigators, which represents about two-thirds of the firm’s lawyers.

Freeborn is a firm that genuinely lives up to its core values of integrity, effectiveness, teamwork, caring and commitment, and embodies them through high standards of client service and responsive action. Its lawyers build close and lasting relationships with clients and are driven to help them achieve their legal and business objectives. For more information, please visit www.freeborn.com.

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