Dani Borel Sworn in as the 2024-25 Chair of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
Dani Borel, a partner in the Baton Rouge office of Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., has been sworn in as the 2024-25 Chair of the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. As Chair, Borel is responsible for overseeing the nation’s largest network of young lawyers—a group that comprises over 91,000 members, 32,000 of which are young attorneys from across the country.
Borel, who officially became Chair at the ABA Annual Meeting this past week in Chicago, has been a member of the ABA YLD since 2015. She went on to hold several different positions in the YLD and the ABA Health Law Section. She has been recognized by the ABA as a Star of the Year (2021), On the Rise: Top 40 Young Lawyer (2020), Emerging Young Lawyer in Healthcare (2019) and Star of the Quarter (2017, 2019). In addition, Dani has been very active with the Baton Rouge and Louisiana State Bar Associations. She served a successful year as Chair of Louisiana’s Young Lawyers in 2022-23.
In her community, she served as a member of the Board of Directors and chaired the Baton Rouge Advisory Board for Lighthouse Louisiana. She was recognized three times with the Lighthouse Louisiana Door Knocker Award for her service. She also volunteers as a trial advocacy coach and judge for LSU Law Center. Her commitment was recognized with the Kalinka Award for Advocacy Programs Coach of the Year (2021).