In law, the barriers aren’t.
Dan didn’t set out to become an attorney. He didn’t start Equal Fight Advocates because he lost faith in the legal system. He started it because he saw how easily the system can lose sight of fairness.
Before becoming an attorney, Dan spent more than two decades in business and the healthcare industry. His career began in the U.S. Air Force, where he served at a nuclear missile base with a Top Secret security clearance. He later helped bring medical innovations to market, including two startups acquired by Johnson & Johnson and another that had a billion-dollar IPO.
Along the way, he experienced business failures firsthand. The wins are nice. The best lessons usually come from the losses.
Those experiences gave him a practical understanding of how organizations work from the inside.
Dan entered the legal profession with more than two decades of business experience. He earned his Bachelor of Science from Park University while on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. He later earned an MBA and an MS in Business Information Systems from the University of Kansas using the GI Bill. Just one month before his 50th birthday, he earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Every degree was earned while serving on active duty or working full-time.
He is licensed in Kansas and Missouri and admitted to practice before multiple federal trial and appellate courts. Based in Kansas City, he represents clients nationwide.
Everything changed when Dan blew the whistle to protect patients from avoidable harm.
His employer’s response wasn’t accountability. It was lawyers, forced arbitration, and silencing mechanisms.
The truth was buried in a private forum required as a condition of employment. When Dan turned to the courts for review, they said they had “no power.”
That experience wasn’t just personal. It was clarifying. It showed him what happens when a fight isn’t fair.
Dan didn’t go to law school because he had always wanted to be an attorney. He went because he wanted to understand how the legal system could be used to avoid accountability.
One month after graduating from law school, Dan filed a petition for certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court. The case gained national attention, including an amicus brief from Lift Our Voices, an organization dedicated to fighting silencing mechanisms. Those experiences led to Equal Fight Advocates.
A law firm that specializes in high-stakes legal battles where the outcome can change people’s lives or impact the greater good.
A lawsuit-avoidance system built around the reality that most legal disputes are resolved through settlement.
Dan and his wife, Angie, have been married for more than twenty years. Their two sons, Quintin and Oliver, inspired the name Quintin Oliver for his law firm.
And then there’s Reggie. He’s the dog. He doesn’t care about any of this, and that’s part of his charm.
Equal Fight is what Dan chose to do about it.
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