Meet Dan Lukasik

Dan is a 1988 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and spent his career representing railroad workers, laborers, and people in need of legal representation.

After a 30-year career as a trial lawyer, Dan was appointed by the Chief Administrative Judge of New York State to be the state’s wellness coordinator in 2019. In this role, Dan develops and delivers mental health programming for 16,000 judicial and non-judicial court employees throughout New York State. He is also an adjunct law professor at the University of Buffalo School of Law where he teaches a course on mental health and well-being in the legal profession. He has also guest lectured at Harvard and Yale Law Schools.

Over the past ten years, Dan has given over 200 presentations throughout the U.S. on stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and compassion fatigue before such diverse local audiences as the American Heart Association, Hospice, Praxair, Hodgson Russ, Freed Maxick, CPA’s, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library staff, Uniland Construction Company, and many others.

The international health website, WebMD, selected Dan for a video on the importance of working with a therapist throughout one’s life to manage clinical depression. In addition, He was chosen by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (“SAMSA”) in Washington, D.C., as their spokesman in a PSA video of someone living successfully with depression.