Daniel T. Graham Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. 55 West Monroe Street Suite 2300 Chicago, Illinois 60603 TEL: 312.701.6848 FAX: 312.701.6801

Dan joined Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd. in May 1994 and became a member in January 1999. He advises clients in many different industries, including a concentration in representing public entities, private companies and consulting firms in the development of their e-commerce initiatives and cyber strategies, and negotiating and drafting custom-design software development and license agreements, web development, and hosting agreements, as well as large-scale ERP, CRM, SCM, BI and ASP implementation agreements. Dan also has extensive commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation experience in the areas of custom software design, non-competition, trade secret and software licenses. He taught the 2002 Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education Course: “Implementation Agreements for Licensed Software” to in-house counsel for governmental agencies and corporations and outside counsel. As a member to the Technology Executives Club for several years, Dan stays abreast to the best practices in the industry and applies them to his client counseling.

Dan has also represented several clients relating to their commercial disputes, including anti-trust, breach of contract, tortious interference, non-competition, non-solicitation, trade secret and employment matters. Dan has handled cases relating to non-competition covenants and secured temporary and preliminary injunctive relief on behalf of his clients to enforce/or defeat such covenants. He has extensive experience with shareholder and limited liability company member disputes and working with clients to anticipate and address the myriad of issues that do arise in shareholder and operating agreements to minimize possible disputes. Dan’s clients include broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, and other affiliated entities in the securities industry. Dan has had extensive involvement in the areas of the liquidation of trust companies and hedge funds, their related receiverships and litigation. He was lead counsel for several hundred victims and worked in conjunction with several other law firms relating to the largest Illinois trust company fraud and resulting liquidation (Intrust) in Illinois history, throughout the lengthy trial court and appellate processes and resulting settlements. Dan has also represented clients in complex estate litigation. He has handled several bankruptcy matters through trial, primarily representing creditors in fraudulent conveyance, preference and similar actions, including trial practice in Delaware’s Federal Court. Dan has conducted several internal investigations for corporate clients to uncover employee fraud or theft and worked with his clients to recover their losses. He also was lead counsel in obtaining the largest false arrest/false imprisonment jury verdict against a private company in Illinois in Chrissafis v. Continental Airlines (1997).

Dan also balances his practice with counseling entrepreneurs on the formation of their businesses and providing strategic vision to help them achieve their goals.

Dan is a founding and active member of the Chicago Bar Association’s Commercial Litigation Committee consisting of active and retired members of the bench and bar. He is currently Chairperson of the CLC for 2006-07, was Vice-Chair from 2005-06. Dan has worked on several initiatives, including: working with members of the bench and bar in the Mediation subcommittee to draft Cook County Local Rule 20, “Major Case Court-Annexed Civil Mediation,” which was approved by the Illinois Supreme Court in February 2004; the Rule 216 Revision and Cook County E-filing subcommittees. Dan also presented CLE programs for the Committee, including a mock hearing on October 13, 2006: “A Presentation of a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order – The ‘Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine’”.

Prior to joining FVLD in 1994, Dan was associated for four years with a large Chicago firm practicing primarily commercial, creditor’s rights, construction, technology and intellectual property litigation, from pre-trial through appeals. For two years, Dan also served as Chairman of the Howard Street store-front legal clinic for the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. He has been a panel attorney for CVLS for the past 16 years. Dan has coached local law school moot court teams and has been a judge for the ABA National Moot Court Competition every year since 1999.

In 1990, Dan was admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court and the United States District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. He is admitted before other Federal District Courts as well, including the Central and Southern Districts of Illinois, the Northern District of Indiana, the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. Dan is also admitted to the Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois. Dan is a member of the Chicago, Illinois State and American Bar Associations.

He received his undergraduate degree, maxima cum laude, in 1987 from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. In 1990, he received his J.D., with distinction, from the University of Iowa, College of Law in Iowa City. While at the law school, Dan received the Best Advocate Award in the Van Oosterhaut Memorial All-School Moot Court Competition. He was also the National Moot Court Team Captain from 1989 to 1990 and Second Vice-Chairperson of the Moot Court Board in 1990. He also authored a Comment, published in the Journal of Corporate Law, 14 J. Corp. Law 809 (1989).

Dan is married, has two sons and a daughter and enjoys coaching football, playing basketball, running and golf (even with them).