Announcement
February 12, 2009
Former Senior DOJ Official, Dan Fridman, Joins Miami Office as a Partner in the South Florida Litigation Group
Dan Fridman has joined Holland & Knight’s Miami office as a Partner in the South Florida litigation group. He has an extensive background in the health care industry and in white-collar criminal defense.
From 2006-2007, Dan served as senior counsel to the United States deputy attorney general and special counsel for health care fraud at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he advised the attorney general and the deputy attorney general on health care policy, and coordinated anti-fraud enforcement efforts among the Civil Division, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Offices, Civil Rights Division and the FBI. He was also responsible for funding and promoting an initiative to target areas experiencing high amounts of health care fraud, including South Florida. From 2004-2006, and again in 2007, Dan was a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Florida. Earlier in his career, he was a civil litigator in private practice in South Florida and clerked for The Honorable Alan S. Gold of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Dan received his B.A. with highest honors from the University of Florida, where he was co-valedictorian of his graduating class. He received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He has testified before Congress on various health care issues, including the Medicare program. He has also appeared in and been quoted by the news media on criminal enforcement issues.
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