Daniel Yi

Dan Yi is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession. A graduate of Yale Law School and the College of William and Mary, Dan clerked previously for the Honorable David F. Hamilton. For nearly two decades, Dan Yi served in several senior roles within the U.S. Department of Justice where he focused on efforts to transform the agency to respond to ever-evolving conditions using design principles. As an Associate Deputy Attorney General, Dan’s portfolio covered on agency-wide operations and management. As Senior Counsel for Innovation, Dan developed, launched, and served in the Department’s first role focused on driving legal innovation.
 
Outside of government, Dan is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School where he co-teaches a course on legal innovation strategy. He also served on the board of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.