Danielle Sullivan Kaminski

Senior Associate

Danielle Sullivan Kaminski is a senior associate in the New York office of Clausen Miller P.C. and concentrates her practice in the areas of first-party property, subrogation, transportation, and construction law.  Ms. Kaminski is a member of the East Coast Subrogation/Recovery Department and handles complex subrogation matters, including losses caused by fires, explosions, structural collapses, boiler, machinery and equipment failures, gas and water leaks. In addition, Ms. Kaminski regularly provides clients with coverage opinions and defends matters involving comprehensive general liability, errors & omissions, builders’ risk, marine, aviation and motor carrier/trucker policies.

Prior to joining Clausen Miller in 2004, Ms. Kaminski acted as national coordinating counsel for a global transport and logistics corporation. Ms. Kaminski has significant experience handling transportation related matters involving lost and damaged cargo, hull losses and major casualties, including losses caused by floods, tsunamis and hurricanes, from coverage, defense and subrogation standpoints. Ms. Kaminski is routinely asked to evaluate matters involving the various international, federal and state laws and regulations relevant to transportation claims, including COGSA and Carmack.  Also, Ms. Kaminski has experience defending employment discrimination, premises liability and products liability matters.

Ms. Kaminski received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Binghamton University.  She was awarded a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law. While at Fordham, Ms. Kaminski was an editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and Fordham Moot Court Board.  Ms. Kaminski also interned with the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin, Circuit Judge, Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Kaminski is licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey, and before the United States Supreme Court. She has successfully litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. She has also arbitrated, mediated and negotiated numerous complex and high profile disputes.

Education

  • J.D. Fordham University School of Law, 1998
  • B.A. Binghamton University, State University of New York, 1995

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • New Jersey

Court Admissions

  • United States District Court, Southern District of New York

  • United States District Court, Eastern District of New York

  • United States District Court, District of New Jersey

  • United States Supreme Court

Organization Affiliations

  • Maritime Law Association of the United States, Member

-Special Board Liaison Committee on CLE, Secretary (2007-Present)

-Carriage of Goods (COGSA) Committee, Member 

-Subcommittee on Cargo Liabilities, Member 

-YLC, Member 

  • New York State Bar Association