Daniel Arshack

Daniel Arshack
Daniel Arshack in 2014
Born	(1956-03-30) March 30, 1956 (age 61) Detroit, Michigan
Residence	New York, New York
Alma mater	Brandeis University Antioch School of Law
Occupation	Attorney

Daniel "Dan" Arshack (born March 30, 1956) is an American criminal defense attorney, co-founder of The Bronx Defenders, managing partner of the law firm Arshack, Hajek and Lehrman, PLLC, and a founding member of the International Criminal Bar, which was created to promote "the development of an independent legal profession and practice before the International Criminal Court." Arshack, who has been a defender for his entire career and "has never put anyone behind bars as either a prosecutor or government counsel," is known for his expertise on international criminal justice issues, lawyer trainings, and anti-death penalty advocacy. Arshack has conducted training for lawyers in Paris, Beirut, the Hague, Victoria, Montreal, Liberia, and New York. His specialties are trial advocacy techniques, ethics, and international criminal tribunals. He has also been an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.

Arshack was born in Detroit on March 30, 1956, and lived there until 1959. His parents divorced and his mother raised him and his sister Susan in Ann Arbor until she moved the family to the Washington, D.C. area in 1966. Arshack attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he played on the varsity soccer team and was president of Stage Crew. He supervised designing and building the sets for Oliver and Lil ‘Abner.

Arshack studied at Brandeis University, where he first majored in technical theater and studied theatre set design in Sweden at the , though ultimately majored in Sociology.