Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, practices law in District of Columbia and the metropolitan area federal courts. Founder of Ubiquity and LoveThology Radio Show, DT teaches and mentors aspiring law students, advises fellow lawyers, speaks at different venues, and supports social and economic empowerment efforts domestically and internationally.
DT as he is affectionately known, received his BA from Howard University in 1975, his Juris Doctorate in 1978 from the University of Santa Clara (where he served as the school's first African-American President of the Student Bar Association), and his LL M from Georgetown Law Center in 1981, with a concentration in international and constitutional law. DT also attended the Rene Cassin Human Rights Institute at the University of Strasburg, France in 1977.
DT’s professional accommodations and accolades are many and include the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association’s 2018 Lawyer of the Year, the 2019 National Bar Association Heman Marion Sweatt Award, the National Bar Association’s Gertrude E. Rush Award, the Washington Bar Association’s Ollie Mae Cooper Award and the National Black Law Student Association’s Cora T. Walker Award. DT has also been inducted into both the District of Columbia Hall of Fame and the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame.
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