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Dan Kinburn
Dan Kinburn is general counsel for the Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nationwide organization of physicians
and laypersons that promotes preventive medicine, especially good
nutrition, and addresses controversies in modern medicine, including
ethical issues in research.
As general counsel, Mr. Kinburn is PCRM’s lead
trial counsel. He directs PCRM’s advocacy litigation, which
challenges industry and government when they promote the consumption
of animal products and other unhealthy foods, and uses litigation
to promote vegetarian diets as well as alternatives to the use
of animals in medical research and education.
Two of Mr. Kinburn’s most important cases for PCRM are class
action lawsuits against the dairy industry: one to end a multimillion
dollar advertising campaign falsely claiming that dairy consumption
aids in weight loss, and the other to require that milk producers
put warning labels about lactose intolerance on all milk cartons.
Mr. Kinburn is also leading groundbreaking lawsuits against the
Atkins Diet empire for its false and misleading claims that a high-fat,
high-meat diet is safe and against the drug company Merck for its
negligent reliance on animal-testing results to market and sell
the dangerous drug Vioxx. Mr. Kinburn has also been involved in
several lawsuits against the United States Environmental Protection
Agency, which directs the killing of tens
of thousands of animals each year in cruel experiments.
Mr. Kinburn earned his Bachelor of Arts in political science from
the State University of New York at Albany. He received his law
degree from Columbia University School of Law in New York in 1979.
Mr. Kinburn started his legal career as an assistant attorney
general for the state of New York, engaging in complex constitutional
and class action litigation at the trial and appellate levels.
Thereafter, he served as an associate and then partner in private
law firms where he specialized in complex civil litigation in state
and federal courts. Mr. Kinburn later formed his own firm, Dwyer
Kinburn Hall & Golub, before leaving private practice to join
PCRM.
Mr. Kinburn is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars and
has been admitted to the federal courts of New York (Eastern, Southern,
and Northern districts) and New Jersey, the District Court for
the District of Columbia, and the Second and Third Circuit Courts
of Appeal.
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