Daniel R. Shelton is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is a member of the Chemical, Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Practice.
Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Shelton served as a judicial extern for Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of California. His experience also includes working as a graduate research assistant, laboratory-teaching assistant and undergraduate research assistant of the University of California Irvine and Santa Barbara.
Mr. Shelton earned his law degree from the University of California, Davis (J.D., 2010) where he was an executive editor for the UC Davis Business Law Journal. Prior to receiving his law degree, he spent a year of study for his J.D. at the University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law where he was the recipient of the Dean's Scholarship, was on the Dean's honor list, and a member of the Intellectual Property Student Association. He was also legislative review staff for the McGeorge Law Review, where he researched and drafted two articles that discussed pending California legislation.
Mr. Shelton earned his master's degree in chemistry (M.S., 2007) at the University of California, Irvine and his bachelor's degree in chemistry (B.S., 2003) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. During his undergraduate study, he received the Roche Bioscience Award for Undergraduate Excellence, the Robert H. DeWolfe Summer Fellowship, and the Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Award for "best proposal."
Mr. Shelton is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and California.
Publications:
· Co-author, "Intramolecular Eletroreductive Cyclization and its Application Toward the Total Synthesis of Pentalenolactone E," Abstracts of Papers, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, United States, September 7-11, 2003, CHED-196.
· Co-author, "Titanocene(III)-Promoted Reformatsky Additions," Organic Letters (2003), 5(20), 3615-3617.
· Co-author, "Titanocene (III) and electrochemically promoted Reformatsky reactions," Proceedings - Electrochemical Society (2003), 2003-12 (Mechanistic and Synthetic Aspects of Organic and Biological Electrochemistry), 161-164.