Dan Himmelfarb, Esq., is a partner in the Supreme Court & Appellate Practice of Mayer Brown LLP. He represents a broad range of clients in civil and criminal appeals in federal and state courts throughout the country, including the United States Supreme Court, where he has filed more than 200 petition-stage and merits briefs and argued 12 times. Mr. Himmelfarb joined Mayer Brown in 2007, after working for ten years in the United States Department of Justice, for the first five as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and for the next five as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. In 2005, he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Himmelfarb was an associate in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York for approximately three years. He is a co-author of two appellate treatises, Supreme Court Practice and Federal Appellate Practice, and a member of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Mr. Himmelfarb holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, Mr. Himmelfarb served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and then for the Honorable Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court of the United States.