Dan Richardson is an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group and a member of the Firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, Antitrust Group, and Intellectual Property & Technology Litigation Practice. Mr. Richardson’s antitrust practice focuses on antitrust counseling, merger clearance, and complex civil litigation. He has argued cases in federal and state courts, including multiple U.S. courts of appeals.
After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School—where he was selected as the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review and was awarded the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence as the top student in his class—Mr. Richardson clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
Mr. Richardson currently serves as the Counsel to the Chair of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Section, and was previously a Vice Chair of the Antitrust Section’s Intellectual Property Committee.