Dania Bardavid is an associate at Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP in New York. She has a broad litigation practice, representing clients in complex actions involving allegations of breach of contract, fraud, business torts, and mass torts. She also advises clients in internal investigations.
Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan, Dania served as a law clerk to the Honorable Debra Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before that, she was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP where she represented clients in a variety of litigation matters. During law school, she represented indigent defendants as a student attorney in Georgetown Law’s Criminal Justice Clinic.
Dania is a graduate of Georgetown Law School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland.
In Diaz v. United States, 144 S.Ct. 1727 (2024), a divided court held that expert testimony in a criminal case, as to whether “most people” in the defendant’s position have a particular mental state, does not run afoul of Federal Ru...