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FDCC News
Dan Kohane Receives FDCC Lifetime Achievement
Award
By Dan McGrath & Gordon Walton
We are quite certain that Dan Kohane, this year’s winner of
the FDCC Lifetime Achievement Award, would agree that Isaac Newton’s profound words epitomize both his personal and legal life. For those of you who
may not have had the pleasure to meet Dan Kohane, please allow this article to provide you with a glimpse into his many accomplishments
as an attorney, FDCC leader, and friend.
The Federation intends with the Lifetime Achievement Award to honor select individuals who are above and beyond in every facet of their life and recognized as giants in their legal communities, within the Federation, and their community at large. The recipient must embody the core values of our Federation – knowledge, justice, professionalism and fellowship. Dan Kohane meets and exceeds these qualifying criteria.
Dan Kohane, colleague or mentor to so many of us, is an outstanding example of what it means to be
an FDCC member. The resolution describing the award provides
that it be given to an individual who stands out amongst his or her peers and in the legal community at large. The “over and above” contributions of the recipient are measured against not only all other exceptional lawyers within the Federation but also lawyers outside of it.
Dan, a native of New York City and long-time resident of his beloved Buffalo, New York, is a nationally known insurance coverage litigator and trial attorney who advises clients on a broad range of matters including insurance coverage, bad faith, tort defense, and ethics. Dan is absolute in his dedication to and love of the law and consequently, reaps not only professional but also deep personal satisfaction from a being a lawyer and helping
others. Colleagues and clients of Dan will gladly tell you that he lives and breathes the law and is there for clients, colleagues, and friends morning, noon and night - seven days a week. No question goes unanswered, no problem unaddressed, and no legal matter not expertly handled.
Dan was born and raised by immigrant parents in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Dan and his family lived in a three story walk-up apartment building just blocks from Ebbets Field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played baseball. Dan was only four years old when the Dodgers left Brooklyn but remembers looking out his apartment bedroom window at the baseball stadium. As youths, Dan and his friends played many of the “street games” associated with growing up as a child in New York, including stick ball and punch ball. Dan attended Brooklyn Technical High School
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