Daniel R. White

Daniel R. White (b. 1953, Atlanta, Georgia) rose to prominence on the basis of his first book, The Official Lawyer’s Handbook, a satire of the legal profession that vaulted onto bestseller lists across the United States in the early 1980s. The success of the Handbook, which ranked #1 on The Washington Post best seller list and presumably drew on White's personal experience practicing law with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hogan & Hartson, led to television appearances, speaking engagements, and other books, as a result of which The American Lawyer magazine declared White “The Official Lawyer’s Comedian.” Calling the Handbook his "vehicle of liberation from the practice of law," White left the private practice of law in 1983. He now...