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D=
an Ackman=
is a native New Yorker who started reading "The Power Broker" a=
t age
11. Last year, he finished it, and he looks forward to finishing another =
book
in the future. He has been a senior columnist for Forbes.com and a
correspondent for the Wall Street Journal’s law page. Dan has written widely for other
publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The D=
aily
News, The New York Post, Newsday, the American Lawyer, Pink Magazine, For=
bes,
Inc., The New York Observer, Salon and Slate. He is also a successful civil rights lawyer.
Dan was born in the city's Chelsea se=
ction
and grew up in Greenwich Vi=
llage.
This last fact impresses many, who are mind-boggled that anyone was actua=
lly
reared in the Village, or who assume that anyone who was so reared would =
wind
up a pot-smoking, folk-song-singing, all-black-wearing beatnik. =
Dan is
none of the above, though he does wear black on occasion. He finds it
slimming.
Dan actually enjoyed a very traditional upbringing, almost Huck Finn-l=
ike
in its innocence. There was a lot of roller hockey. He had two parents, o=
ne
of each sex, and both lawyers.
Dan attended high school on the Upper West Side, graduated from Wesleyan University, and from Columbia Law School. A member o=
f the
bar of New York and the United States Supreme Court, Dan practiced law,
specializing in constitutional, civil, and securities litigation, and wro=
te
in his spare time. He left the law to join a start-up computer business t=
hat
was more start than up. He then started focusing more on his writing, and
became an award-winning screenwriter.
Later, he enrolled at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism, where he wrote his masters topic=
on
the lawless New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission and won prizes
for his writing about business.
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Dan was selected one of five finalists for the On=
line
Journalism Award for Commentary and has appeared frequently as a
commentator on television and radio. He has written on a wide range of
subjects including the Bush-=
Gore
war, law =
and
litigation, Enron,
the wide
world of sports, books, movies, =
energy policy=
, and
the business of
pornography. He is a regular commentator for radio and televisi=
on
having appeared on CNN, PBS, CNBC, CBS, the BBC, Fox News, CSPAN, NPR, and
ESPN Radio.
Dan has continued to write
frequently on the taxi industry and the atrocious New York City Taxi =
and
Limousine Commission. During journalism school, he successfully =
sued
the TLC for access to its courts. Since that time, he has acted=
as
lead counsel in a class
action lawsuit against the TLC concerning its so-called Operation
Refusal. On March 6, 2006, the case was resolved in
principle, with the taxi drivers receiving $7 million in
compensation. This was the =
first
time the TLC was ordered to pay a substantial sum to any of the thousands=
of
taxi drivers it has wronged.
At times an avid runner and a sometime cyclist, Dan has completed seve=
ral
marathons. He has biked across most of the U.S.
and once cycled solo from Amsterdam to <=
st1:City
w:st=3D"on">Istanbul. =
He now
lives in Jersey City
with his wife Laura K=
atzive
Ackman, an international human rights lawyer at the Center For Reproductive Right=
s
and sons Benjamin and Alexander.
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