White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Danielle S. Tarin

Practice Experience

Danielle S. Tarin is an associate at White & Case and practices with the International Litigation and Arbitration Groups. Ms. Tarin has experience in representing sovereigns and their agencies and instrumentalities in commercial litigation before federal courts and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

Representation of a sovereign state before the Second Circuit in a suit arising under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act for breach of contract and tort claims;
Representation of a sovereign state in an ICSID arbitration arising under a bilateral investment treaty regarding the privatization of several companies;
Representation of a sovereign state in an ICSID arbitration arising under a bilateral investment treaty regarding duty-free services;
Representation of a corporate client in adversary proceedings in a major bankruptcy case;
Argued a criminal appeal before the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Wright.

Before joining White & Case, Ms. Tarin served as law clerk to Judge Deborah Cook of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as a judicial intern to Judge Henry H. Kennedy of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Ms. Tarin also served as a Graduate Fellow at the Central Intelligence Agency and studied as Fulbright Scholar to Egypt at the American University in Cairo.

Bars and Courts
District of Columbia Bar, 2007
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2007
Texas State Bar, 2006

Clerkships
Judge Deborah Cook, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Education
MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2005
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, Hardy Cross Dillard Prize, Jessup International Law Moot Court Member of 2002 Regional Champion Team, Virginia Journal of International Law, 2005
BA, Austin College, magna cum laude, 2000

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
Women’s Bar Association

Publications
Co-author, "Rewriting the Record: A Federal Court Split on the Scope of Permissible Changes to a Deposition Transcript," 2008 Federal Courts Law Review 3, April 2008
"Prosecuting Saddam and Bungling Transitional Justice in Iraq," Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 45, 2005
"Will an Attack on America Justify an Attack on Americans?: Congressional and Constitutional Prohibitions on the Executive’s Power to Detain US Citizens as Enemy Combatantants, Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 44, Page 1145, 2004

Languages
English
Spanish

Citizenship
United States