Jay D. Dean graduated in 1988 from Yale Law School. While at Yale, Mr. Dean was Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. In 2009, he became an associate at Pomerantz, where he focuses on insurance litigation.

For many years Mr. Dean served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Office of the Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, most recently in its Pension Division, which represents the Trustees of the City's five pension funds.

Prior to that, Mr. Dean was a litigation associate with the firms of Berlack Israels & Liberman (currenly known as Brown Rudnick LLP), Shea & Gould, and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP., where he had extensive involvement in commercial and securities matters.His experience includes criminal defense of junk bond underwriter Drexel Burnham Lambert, the successful jury trial of a bank's claims against its fidelity bond issuer and trial preparation on behalf of institutional plaintiffs in the Wedtech securities litigation.

Mr. Dean was co-author of chapters entitled "Criminal Forfeiture" and "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations" in the Criminal Defense Techniques treatise published by Matthew Bender in 1990.