Dan Abrams

Dan Abrams is an attorney, author, legal analyst for ABC News, and substitute anchor for Good Morning America.

Abrams is probably best known for hosting the programs Verdict with Dan Abrams and The Abrams Report as well as his coverage of the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court battles (where he was one of the first reporters to correctly interpret the opinion). He was also the Chief Legal Analyst for MSNBC before leaving to be an analyst for ABC News in March 2011.

Abrams began his career at NBC Sports in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics and Wimbledon. Nearly a decade later, he joined NBC News as a general assignment correspondent in 1997 and quickly became a regular contributor to NBC Nightly News, Today, and Dateline NBC. Abrams has reported on all of the highest profile cases of the past decade including the Bush v. Gore post-election battles, President Clinton impeachment trial, the Scott Peterson trial, and the Oklahoma City bombing trials. More recently, he has covered legal issues associated with the War on Terror and provided in-depth analysis and coverage of the Michael Jackson trial.

Prior to joining NBC News, Abrams served as an anchor and reporter for Court TV. In that capacity he covered the OJ Simpson criminal and civil trials from Los Angeles, the International War Crimes Tribunal from The Netherlands, and the assisted-suicide trials of Dr. Kevorkian from Michigan. He also worked as an NBC News consultant from 1995 to 1997.

An accomplished writer, Abrams's articles have been published in The New York Times, The American Lawyer, and the Yale Law and Policy Review, among others. He also writes a monthly legal column for Men's Health magazine. His first book, Man Down: Proof Beyond a Reasonable Doubt that Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else, was published in March 2011.

A 1988 alumnus of Duke University, Abrams graduated cum laude with a BA in political science. He received his law degree from Columbia University in 1992.