Education

As he is from a law background he was also preferred to brush up his knowledge about law and maintain the chain. He attended Duke University and graduated from there with a B.A. Degree in Political Science In the year of 1988. The he enrolled for a Law Degree at Columbia University in 1992 and later he got a law degree with Honors from Stetson University.

Career

In his early life, he used to be a reporter in Court TV and covered the case of OJ Simpson, Netherlands' International War Crimes Tribunal and Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicide trials from Michigan. Then he joined NBC News in the year of 1997 as Chief Legal Correspondent. After leaving NBC News in 1999 he started hosting The Abrams Report which is his own show on MSNBC in 2001. Then he offered the General Manager post of MSNBC on 12th June 2006 and left hosting his own show.

He joined ABC News as a Chief Legal Analyst in March 2011. He was a substitute of the anchor of Good Morning America, a famous show on ABC News. On 19th June 2013, he became the Chief Legal Affairs Anchor of ABC News and also grab the place of Main Anchor in Nightline.

Abrams was a web entrepreneur too and he launched many successful websites such as Mediaite, a news site presents critics about the well-known faces of media which was established in July 2009 and late of the same month he co-founds Gossip Cop which targeted the gossips about celebrities. Next in 2010, he launched Geekosystem which is all about Internet Fundamentals. Again in 2010 he launched a fashion related website named as Styleite. Then he launched a Sports news related website named as SportsGrid in May 2010. He launched The Mary Sue website in 2011 to encourage and promote the geek women. He launched a website in 2012 named as The Braiser with the focus on World's Best Chef's Lifestyle.

He also had a passion for writing and published book, article, online magazine and he used to be an active columnist. One of the books published by him was declared as best seller of Washington Post and then it was translated into other languages such as Indonesian, Russian, Hebrew, Swedish, Croatian, also in other languages.

Personal Life

He was in a relationship with Elisabeth Rohm but later broke up with her in 2005. After that breakup Dan Abrams got engaged in another relationship with Florinka Pesenti who is one among the team who won The Amazing Race 3. He has a boy child from his partner Florinka. They gave birth to their first child in June 2012.