Dan Cotter

Dan Cotter

Dan Cotter is a member at Aronberg Goldgehn, the third oldest firm in Chicago, where he practices corporate, transactional, privacy and insurance regulatory law in Chicago. He has spent half of his career in-house at large insurance organizations, and has advised his clients in various jurisdictions. He is a Past President of The Chicago Bar Association and the National Conference of Bar Presidents. Dan is a frequent writer about the U.S. Constitution, our nation’s founding, and the SCOTUS and its justices. He has written pieces published in Constituting America’s 90 Day Studies, has a regular column in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, “Cotter’s Corner,” and has written op-eds that have appeared in a variety of publications over the years. In his spare time, Dan is an amateur historian and his book, “The Chief Justices: The Seventeen Men of the Center Seat, Their Courts, and Their Times,” a civics history of the nation as seen through the center seat of SCOTUS, is available on Amazon. He tweets about SCOTUS and general history daily @scotusbios.

Guest Appearances
August 25, 2025

Leadership in Action: How Bar Involvement Shapes Legal Careers

In this collaborative episode from the National Conference of Bar Presidents’ Leading the Bar podcast and the Chicago Bar Association’s @theBar podcast, host Amanda Arriaga talks with Dan Cotter, Trisha Rich, and Jonathan Amarilio about the...

August 18, 2025

Celebrating 75 Years of NCBP

In this special episode of Leading the Bar, we celebrate 75 years of the National Conference of Bar Presidents with outgoing president Dan Cotter and incoming president Patrick Palace. Host Amanda Arriaga...

August 6, 2025

Getting Involved, Giving Back: Bar Leaders Share Their Stories

In this special joint episode presented by the Chicago Bar Association and the National Conference of Bar Presidents, host Amanda Arriaga speaks with Trisha Rich, Jon Amarilio, and Dan Cotter about their...

May 8, 2019

The Chief Justices Edition

Dan Cotter, lawyer, historian, and author, discusses the history of the handful of jurists who have lead the Supreme Court.