• Dan Wachtell

    Principal

  • Emily Bradford

    Of Counsel

Dan Wachtell has over a decade of experience representing individuals and companies in criminal, regulatory, and internal investigations; civil litigation and dispute resolution; compliance matters; employment issues; and appeals.

Dan has counseled individual clients in connection with investigations by the Department of Justice, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Attorney General’s Office, the SEC, FINRA, and various other federal and state authorities, on topics including alleged mail and wire fraud, insider trading, criminal and civil tax violations, suspicious trading patterns, violations of government contracting law, supervisory and internal controls violations, and professional misconduct. Additionally, Dan has defended indigent clients as Criminal Justice Act (CJA) counsel and in tandem with the Federal Defenders of New York.

Dan has also advised both plaintiffs and defendants regarding active and contemplated civil litigation, including contractual disputes; shareholder lawsuits; defamation and First Amendment claims; Article 78 proceedings; employment matters; and an array of other issues.

Prior to establishing his own firm, Dan was Counsel at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello P.C., one of the leading white-collar boutiques in New York, during which time the firm was recognized as the best white-collar practice group in the industry and Dan was named a “Rising Star” four years in a row by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers.

Dan graduated from New York University School of Law in 2008, where he was the Managing Editor of the Law Review. From 2009-2010, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Richard M. Berman, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Dan was a philosophy major at Princeton University, with a minor in art history. He lives in Brooklyn and plays for a competitive men’s soccer club. Before law school, he was a field worker on numerous political campaigns and was ranked among the top 100 tournament Scrabble players and crossword solvers in the country.

Prior to founding her own law practice in 2019, Emily Bradford spent more than ten years in government service. She investigated and prosecuted complaints of corruption, fraud, and abuse of office as part of the New York State Attorney General Office’s Public Integrity Bureau, and claims of procurement fraud, tax evasion, and other frauds against the government as part of the Taxpayer Protection Bureau.

Emily then moved to the Kings County District Attorney’s Office where she served as the Deputy Bureau Chief of the Public Integrity Bureau and supervised the investigation and prosecution of public corruption cases in Kings County. More recently, she served in the Rackets Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s Office where she conducted long-term investigations into corrupt enterprises and other complex frauds.

Before entering government service, Emily was an Associate at Wilmer Hale in Washington DC, where she represented clients in federal and state courts, before administrative agencies, and in civil and criminal inquiries by federal agencies. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Judge J. Michael Seabright in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Emily also teaches legal writing at the Cardozo School of Law.