Daniel Thies is a partner at Webber & Thies PC in Urbana, Illinois. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, ERISA, insurance law, class action defense, and estate planning.Mr. Thies is a member of the Council of the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar, the nationally recognized accrediting body for American law schools. He has served as an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School, teaching intellectual property trial advocacy. He has served as the Reporter for the 2009–2010 ABA Presidential Commission on the Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Profession and Legal Needs, and as the Reporter for the 2012–2013 ISBA Special Committee on the Impact of Law School Debt on the Delivery of Legal Service. He has also represented Illinois as a delegate in the ABA Young Lawyers Division Assembly.Mr. Thies is a member of the ISBA’s Federal Civil Practice Section Council and the Young Lawyers Division Council, and has served as the chair of the ISBA Standing Committee on Legal Education, Admission, & Competence. Prior to joining Webber & Thies, Mr. Thies was a litigation associate at Sidley Austin LLP (2013-2018). He also clerked for Chief Judge James F. Holderman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2011–2013) and for Judge Jerry Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (2010–2011). Mr. Thies graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2010 and magna cum laude from Yale University in 2007.
