Daniel Backman is an Associate at Keller Postman LLC. He applies his legal skills and passion to help level the playing field between our clients and the corporations or governments that have injured them.

At Keller Postman, Daniel’s work primarily involves representing veterans, military family members, and civilian contractors affected by the Camp Lejeune water contamination. He also engages in antitrust litigation against Amazon and contributes to briefings in various legal domains, including antitrust and product liability. Notably, he supported the firm’s successful briefing for the U.S. Supreme Court case, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

Daniel joined Keller Postman after graduating from Yale Law School, where he was a member of the law school’s Tech Accountability & Competition Project. In that role, he contributed to an amicus brief filed at the Supreme Court regarding the interpretation of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, drafted portions of state legislation regulating social media companies, and helped craft a lawsuit on behalf of people injured by privacy violations. Daniel also interned at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and for Judge Victor A. Bolden on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Prior to law school, Daniel served as the founding chief of staff of NYC Kids RISE, a nonprofit that automatically opens and funds college savings accounts for every kindergartner in New York City public schools as a tool for wealth-building and educational opportunity.

Daniel will serve as a law clerk for Judge Jia M. Cobb on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Pamela A. Harris on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. At Yale Law School, Daniel published student notes in the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal on Regulation covering issues in antitrust law, labor law, and constitutional law. Daniel also graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College.

Daniel is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia only.

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"My proudest moment as a plaintiffs’ attorney was assisting Keller Postman in its victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Robert Mallory in Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. That case represented many of the things that I find most rewarding about plaintiffs’ lawyering: it raised a complex issue that required significant legal and historical research, it could not have been won without creative and rigorous advocacy, and the outcome helped to level the procedural playing field between plaintiffs and corporations. "

Daniel Backman

Education

  • J.D., Yale Law School
  • A.B., Harvard University

Previous Affiliations

  • Yale Law School Tech Accountability & Competition Project
  • Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  • NYC Kids Rise