Wong Fleming Founding Partner Daniel C. Fleming was selected by the New Jersey Law Journal to receive a New Jersey Legal Award as an Unsung Hero. This award recognizes him as a firm leader and his excellent work as managing partner of Wong Fleming, a diverse law firm whose clients include many Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Fleming will receive this award on September 29, 2022, at the Brooklake Country Club, in Florham Park, New Jersey.
Wong Fleming Partner Daniel Fleming was selected as a 2022 Honoree by the New Jersey Law Journal, an ALM publication, to receive a New Jersey Legal Award as an Unsung Hero. Mr. Fleming will receive the award on Thursday, September 29, 2022, at the Brooklake Country Club, in Florham Park.
Mr. Fleming is precisely the kind of attorney that the award is intended to recognize. Mr. Fleming has achieved professional excellence in the legal community and has dedicated his career to help the advancement of women and minority attorneys. He has mentored and promoted excellence in the legal work at Wong Fleming and supported other diverse firms around the country on behalf of Fortune 500 clients.
Under his leadership, Wong Fleming has grown from a law firm of three attorneys to one of the largest women and minority owned law firms in the country with cross border practices, establishing Wong Fleming as a global law firm. Mr. Fleming, an AV-Preeminent rated attorney by Martindale Hubbell with over 38 years of legal experience, is one of New Jersey’s best-known authorities on bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Daniel C. Fleming is the V.P. and Partner in the firm’s Princeton, N.J. office and a litigator who has taken over 100 cases to jury verdict. He is Chair of the Banking, Finance and Bankruptcy Practice Group, the Products Liability and Mass Tort Litigation Practice Group, and the Intellectual Property Practice Group. His jury trial, bench trial, and arbitration experience are wide-ranging and include products liability, commercial disputes, employment litigation, civil rights, bankruptcy, and even international parental child abduction. Mr. Fleming received his undergraduate degree from Villanova University in 1981, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages. He received his law degree in 1984 from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and earned the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law. Upon graduation from law school, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Joseph M. Hannon of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
He is a member of the New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, California and Washington, D.C. Bars and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for his outstanding achievements as a lawyer. He is the co-author of an article appearing in the bankruptcy bar’s most notable journal, the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. He has also donated his time to the community by speaking to Philadelphia citizens about bankruptcy at the Philadelphia Bar Association’s People’s Law School forum.
Wong Fleming is proud to have Mr. Fleming as one of its most influential leaders at the firm, who has been instrumental in its considerable growth, success and recognition nationally and internationally. We commend Mr. Fleming on this considerable award that is truly deserved.