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Daniel D. Covington is active in business and commercial law, litigating civil matters, estate and business planning, oil and gas, real estate, and advocating for creditors in bankruptcy proceedings. He has experience representing business clients ranging from banks to farms and dairies, and from cities to telephone companies and commercial toy and novelty distributors.

Dan grew up in Kansas, earning his undergraduate degree from Fort Hays State University. He served four years in the U.S. Navy in San Diego before returning to Kansas to graduate from the University of Kansas School of Law.

While in law school he served as an intern for the Paul E. Wilson Defender Project. Dan was also a staff member for the Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy which published his article on security interests in farm products. Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y, Winter, 1999, at 342.

He is a member of the Kansas and Franklin County Bar Associations, and a former President of the latter. Dan is a partner in the firm. He started working at Anderson Byrd as a law clerk in 1998, and began his practice of law the following year. He serves as a Board Member for several non-profit organizations, and coaches youth sports. He is licensed to practice in all courts in Kansas, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri.

Dan authors and manages Kansas Business Attorney, where he reviews business law, banking and commercial law of interest to Kansas attorneys, bank clients and small business clients. You can find Dan here.

• Litigation: represented banks in over fifty state and federal proceedings
  
• Business Start-Up: organized over ninety new businesses
  
• Creditors’ Rights Counsel: advocates creditor rights in bankruptcy court
  
• Regional Representation: practices regularly in the courts of Douglas, Franklin, Johnson and Miami counties as well as federal courts in Kansas City and Topeka
  
• Diverse Clients: Dan has been entrusted with advocacy for great array of business interests; examples of entities he has represented — cities, banks, railroad, long-distance provider, toy & novelty distributor, dairy, microbrewery, coal company, florist, surveyors, gas stations, trucking company, heavy equipment manufacturers, roofers, veterinarians, real estate brokers, developers, car dealers, internet service provider
• Community: has served a combined total of more than 14 years on non-profit organization boards