Margaret Dale is a trial lawyer and first-chair litigator handling complex business disputes across a wide variety of industries, including: consumer products, media and entertainment, financial services, telecommunications and technology, and higher education. She is a former vice-chair of the Litigation Department, and heads the Department’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice Group. Margaret has been recognized since 2017 in Benchmark Litigation's Top 250 Women in Litigation.
Margaret’s practice covers the spectrum of complex commercial disputes, including privacy and data security matters, as well as disputes involving M&A, intellectual property, bankruptcy and insolvency, securities, corporate governance, and asset management.
Margaret regularly counsels clients before litigation commences to assess risk, adopt strategies to minimize or deflect disputes, and resolve matters without going to court.
Margaret is a frequent writer, including authoring a regular column on corporate and securities law in the New York Law Journal. She also serves as the lead editor of Proskauer’s blog on commercial litigation, Minding Your Business. She also authored the chapter titled “Privileges” in the treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts (Haig, 5th ed.), as well as the chapter titled “Data Breach Litigation” in PLI’s Proskauer on Privacy.
Margaret maintains an active pro bono practice advocating on issues relating to women, children and veterans. She serves on the Board of Directors of CFR (Center for Family Representation), VLA (Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts), JALBC (Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert), and the City Bar Fund.
With Highest Honors
Phi Beta Kappa
Center for Family Representation, Member of the Board of Directors (former Board Chair)
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee member
JALBC (Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert), Member of the Board of Directors
City Bar Fund, Member of the Board of Directors
New York City Bar (Judiciary Committee; Member of the Task Force on Litigation Funding; Former Member of: Sports Law Committee, Art Law Committee, Committee of the State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction, and Committee on Professional Discipline, Former Co-Chair of the Task Force on New York's Constitutional Convention (2015-2017)
New York State Bar Association (Former Secretary of Commercial and Federal Litigation, Former Editor of NY Litigator)
American Bar Association (Section of Litigation)
Benchmark Litigation, Litigation Star 2019-2023
Benchmark Litigation, Top 250 Women in Litigation 2017-2023
Benchmark Litigation, Future Star 2014-2018
Crain's Notable Women in Law 2018
The Legal 500 United States: Cyber Law (Incl. Data Protection & Privacy) 2018, 2020, 2022-2023
The Legal 500 United States: Litigation: General Commercial Disputes 2018-2023
The Legal 500 United States: Media, Technology & Telecoms: Data Protection and Privacy 2013-2014, 2016, 2019
New York Super Lawyers 2007-2022
“Top 50 Women,” New York Metro Super Lawyers, 2019-2020
YWCA's Academy of Women Leaders