Daniel Cotter, Esq. is a partner with Howard & Howard in Chicago, IL. Before returning to private practice in 2015, Dan served as the general counsel, vice president & secretary of Fidelity Life Association, a large insurance company based on Chicago. Dan has spent nearly 25 years of his legal career working with the insurance industry, where he has extensive experience handling transactional work, general regulatory and government relationships in multiple jurisdictions, and litigation and oversight, as well as privacy.
In addition to his extensive litigation, regulatory and transactional experience in the insurance industry, Dan’s practice has included work for a broad range of clients in the areas of corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate organizations, reorganizations, dissolutions and redomestications, corporate governance and compliance and cybersecurity and privacy issues. In addition, Dan has handled a wide array of commercial litigation cases, including insurance defense, complex business disputes and employment matters.
Dan successfully completed the CPA Examination in 1989, and worked as an accountant for 5.5 years, the last three while attending law school at night. He taught a course, Accounting for Lawyers, for several years at The John Marshall Law School.
Accreditation Policy
myLawCLE seeks accreditation for all programs in all states. (Accreditation for paralegals sought thru NALA and NFPA paralegal associations.) Each attending attorney/paralegal will receive a certificate of completion following the close of the CLE program as proof of attendance. In required states, myLawCLE records attorney/paralegals attendance, in all other states attorney/paralegal is provided with the approved CLE certificate to submit to their state bar or governing association.
All myLawCLE CLE programs are accredited automatically either directly or via reciprocity in the following states: AK, AR, CA, CT, FL, HI, ME, MO, MT, ND, NH, NM, NJ, NY, WV, and VT. (AZ does not approve CLE programs, but accepts our certificates for CLE credit.)
Live video broadcasts are new live CLE programs being streamed and recorded for the first time. All of these programs qualify for “Live” CLE credit in all states except NV, OH, MS, IN, UT, PA, GA, SC, and LA —these states require in-person attendance to qualify for “Live” CLE credit.
“Live” Re-broadcasts are replays of previous recorded CLE programs, set on a specific date and time and where the original presenting speakers calls in live at the end of the event to answer questions. This “live” element allows for “live” Re-broadcast CLEs to qualify for “Live” CLE credits in most states. [The following states DO NOT allow for “live” CLE credits on re-broadcast CLEs: NV, OH, MS, IN, UT, PA, GA, SC, and LA]
Reciprocity
Many states allow for credit to be granted on a 1:1 reciprocal basis for courses approved in another mandatory CLE jurisdiction state. This is known as a reciprocity provision and includes the following states: AK, AR, HI, CT, FL, ME, MO, MT, ND, NH, NM, VT, NJ, NY, and WV. myLawCLE does not seek direct accreditation of live webinars or teleconferences in these states.
