Dan DiPietro, Principal of Dan DiPietro Consulting LLC, advises a select group of law firms on growth strategies, governance, and financial performance improvements. He is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Co. in its law firm practice.
Dan is former Chairman of Citi Private Bank’s Law Firm Group (LFG), a business dedicated to serving the financial needs of over 650 law firms and 30,000 of their lawyers. Dan spent almost thirty years studying the evolution of the legal industry while at Citi. During his time leading LFG, he oversaw expansion into a number of markets in the US (Boston, Philadelphia, Houston and Dallas in Texas, Palo Alto, and Orange County) and the opening of its London office. He informally advised a number of firms during his time at Citi on combinations and acquisitions and gained valuable insights from law firm failures where Citi was the sole or lead bank.
Dan holds a B.A. from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. He is on the faculty of Harvard Law School’s Leadership in Law Firms program.
In his spare time, Dan is a member of the Silly Shakespeare Company and Co-Director of the Scrooge Stroll and James Joyce Jaunt, annual celebrations of the works of Charles Dickens and Joyce’s Ulysses. He is a dedicated practitioner of Iyengar yoga.