Carey R. Dunne

Dunne was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1980 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984.{{Cite news |date=August 11, 1985 |title=Katherine Manning Weds Carey Dunne |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/11/style/katherine-mannng-weds-carey-dunne.html}}

After graduating from Harvard Law School, Dunne joined the office of the Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau as an Assistant District Attorney.{{Cite web |date=November 20, 2012 |title=City Bar: A World-Class Institution |url=http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/21250/city-bar-world-class-institution/ |website=Metropolitan Corporate Council |access-date=April 27, 2022 |archive-date=December 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203161638/https://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/articles/21250/city-bar-world-class-institution/ |url-status=dead }} There, he served as a prosecutor in the office's Trial Division until he left in 1987 to join the firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell.{{Cite news |last=Farrell |first=Greg |date=July 23, 2021 |title=Trump Probe Prosecutor Made His Name Defending Wall Street Banks |work=Bloomberg |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-23/trump-probe-prosecutor-made-his-name-defending-wall-street-banks}}{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2011 |title=City Bar in the News |url=https://www2.nycbar.org/htmlemail/44thST/Notes_120511.htm |website=New York City Bar}}

Dunne's career at Davis Polk spanned three decades, and included election to the firm's three person global management committee, a position he held for nine years.{{Cite web |date=2011-04-07 |title=Davis Polk Elects New Management Team Led by Tom Reid as Managing Partner |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110407006001/en/Davis-Polk-Elects-New-Management-Team-Led-by-Tom-Reid-as-Managing-Partner |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=www.businesswire.com |language=en}} He also chaired the firm's Litigation Department. Dunne specialized in representing individuals and companies in complex white collar criminal investigations. His clients included institutions such as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Consolidated Edison, and the manufacturer of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.{{Cite news |last=Gasparino |first=Charles |date=February 28, 2003 |title=How a String of E-Mail Came To Haunt CSFB, Star Banker |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1046400244679645423}}{{Cite web |date=November 1, 2007 |title=Case Closed? |url=https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/almID/1193735022055/ |website=The American Lawyer}} His cases included investigations of financial frauds,{{Cite news |last=Koppel |first=Nathan |date=September 21, 2005 |title=Ebbers Centers New-Trial Bid on Ex-Deputy |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB112726858014947016}}{{Cite news |last=Langley |first=Monica |date=October 18, 2004 |title=Insurers Reel From Spitzer's Strike |work=The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB109804854644647436 |access-date=}} international sanctions,{{Cite web |last=Bishop |first=Stewart |date=January 16, 2013 |title=White Collar Group of the Year: Davis Polk |url=https://www.law360.com/articles/407866/white-collar-group-of-the-year-davis-polk |website=Law 360}} environmental crimes, insider trading, antitrust violations, and commercial disputes.

While at Davis Polk, Dunne also maintained an active pro bono practice, which included serving as lead counsel in the murder trial of Lonnie Jones.{{Cite news |date=February 23, 2015 |title=NYLPI Honors Attorneys at the 2015 Law & Society Award Luncheon |work=City Limits |url=https://citylimits.org/2015/02/23/nylpi-honors-attorneys-at-the-2015-law-society-award-luncheon/}} Jones was exonerated by a jury of all charges after just two hours of deliberation, resulting in his immediate release after serving five years in prison for a crime he did not commit.{{Cite news |last=Straquadine |first=Matt |date=October 6, 2009 |title=Lonnie Jones's Head Is Worth $20,000 in Coney Island. Blame the Brooklyn Bloods. |work=The Village Voice |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2009/10/06/lonnie-joness-head-is-worth-20000-in-coney-island-blame-the-brooklyn-bloods/}}

After nearly 30 years in private practice, Dunne retired from Davis Polk and rejoined the Manhattan District Attorney's office in January 2017 as General Counsel to DA Cyrus Vance Jr.{{Cite journal |date=November 2, 2016 |title=Longtime Davis Polk Partner to Become GC for Manhattan DA |url=https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/almID/1202771377549/longtime-davis-polk-partner-to-become-gc-for-manhattan-da/?slreturn=20220318150016 |journal=The New York Law Journal}} Dunne and Vance were contemporaries in that office in the 1980s.

As general counsel, Dunne oversaw major investigations and cases for the DA's Office, such as People v. The Trump Organization and People v. Harvey Weinstein.{{Cite magazine |last=Bernstein |first=Andrea |date=September 29, 2021 |title=Donald Trump Still Faces a Reckoning in New York |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-still-faces-a-reckoning-in-new-york}} He also supervised the office's Investigations Division, the Legislative Affairs Group, and the Conviction Integrity Program, which in November 2021 secured the exoneration of two men who had been wrongfully convicted of assassinating Malcolm X in 1965.{{Cite news |date=November 18, 2021 |title=Read the Motion to Vacate Convictions in the Murder of Malcolm X |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/18/nyregion/malcolm-x-death-investigation.html?referringSource=articleShare}}

Dunne led the Manhattan DA's investigation of Donald J. Trump and related individuals and entities, which began in the summer of 2019. Prompted by a subpoena from the office to the accounting firm Mazars for Trump-related tax records, lawyers for Trump and related entities filed a series of objections in federal court beginning in September 2019 that led to an 18-month effort by the President to prevent the office from obtaining his tax records on constitutional grounds.

The case went twice to the Supreme Court. Dunne prevailed at oral argument twice in the Southern District of New York, twice in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and in the Supreme Court.{{Cite news |last=Pierson |first=Brendan |date=October 23, 2019 |title=Trump could shoot someone and escape prosecution, his lawyer argues |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-vance-idUSKBN1X218U}}{{Cite news |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=2020-07-09 |title=Supreme Court Rules Trump Cannot Block Release of Financial Records |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/trump-taxes-supreme-court.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Shayna |date=September 21, 2020 |title=Manhattan district attorney cites news reports to argue for eight years of Trump tax returns |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-vance-tax-returns/2020/09/21/9cfcbc44-fc27-11ea-8d05-9beaaa91c71f_story.html}}{{Cite web |date=October 23, 2019 |title=Trump v Vance Oral Argument |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?465172-1/circuit-hears-oral-argument-president-trumps-tax-returns |website=C-SPAN}}{{Cite web |date=May 12, 2020 |title=Supreme Court Oral Argument: President Trump's Financial Records |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?471676-1/supreme-court-rules-york-district-attorney-obtain-president-trumps-financial-records |website=C-SPAN}}

On May 12, 2020, Dunne argued before the U.S. Supreme court that President Trump was required to turn over his tax returns to the District Attorney in response to a subpoena directed to the President's tax accountants. The decision was described as “one of the most consequential prosecutorial decisions in U.S. history.” Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the argument was one of the first ever to be conducted by telephone and to be broadcast live to the public.{{Cite news |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=2020-05-12 |title=Supreme Court Hints at Split Decision in Two Cases on Obtaining Trump's Financial Records |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/12/us/supreme-court-trump-tax-returns.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

On July 9, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 7–2 in a 68-page opinion.{{Cite news |last=The Editorial Board |first= |date=2020-07-09 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Supreme Court Lets Trump Run Out the Clock |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/supreme-court-trump-taxes.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Neumeister |first=Larry |date=July 15, 2020 |title=Lawyers: Trump might claim harassment in tax return quest |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/lawyers-trump-may-claim-harassment-in-tax-return-quest/2020/07/15/c136f20c-c6bf-11ea-a825-8722004e4150_story.html}}{{Cite news |last=Gerstein |first=Josh |date=July 16, 2020 |title=Trump lawyer, prosecutor spar over future of tax returns subpoena case |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/16/trump-lawyer-prosecutor-tax-returns-subpoena-366203}} The majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Roberts, held that a sitting president is not immune from legal process in a state grand jury investigation under Article II nor the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution.{{Cite web |date=July 9, 2020 |title=Supreme Court Opinions: Trump v. Vance |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19-635_o7jq.pdf}} As a result of the decision, the DA's office obtained millions of pages of tax records from the President's tax accountants.{{Cite news |last1=Rashbaum |first1=William K. |last2=Protess |first2=Ben |last3=Weiser |first3=Benjamin |date=2021-02-22 |title=Here's What's Next in the Trump Taxes Investigation |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/nyregion/trump-taxes-cyrus-vance.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

The case was then remanded to the District Court in the Southern District of New York for further arguments and proceedings. After further unsuccessful challenges by President Trump in the District Court and the Court of Appeals, on February 22, 2021, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case further, which led Dunne and his team to obtain the tax records from the Mazars accounting firm that afternoon.{{Cite web |last=Mangan |first=Tucker Higgins, Dan |date=2021-02-22 |title=Supreme Court rejects Trump effort to shield tax records from NY prosecutors |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/22/supreme-court-rejects-trump-effort-to-shield-tax-records-from-ny-prosecutors.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=CNBC |language=en}}

On July 1, 2021, Dunne was the lead attorney to conduct the arraignment of the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg upon a grand jury indictment for charges of criminal tax fraud in connection with a 15-year scheme to avoid the payment of income taxes. At state Supreme Court in Manhattan, Dunne described the charges to the court: “To put it bluntly, this was a sweeping and audacious illegal payments scheme.”{{Cite news |last1=Protess |first1=Ben |last2=Rashbaum |first2=William K. |last3=Bromwich |first3=Jonah E. |date=2021-07-01 |title=Trump Organization Is Charged With Running 15-Year Employee Tax Scheme |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/nyregion/allen-weisselberg-charged-trump-organization.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Shayna, David A. Fahrenthold, Josh Dawsey and Jonathan O'Connell |title=Prosecutors allege a 15-year tax fraud scheme as the Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg are arraigned on multiple criminal charges |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-business-weisselberg-indictments/2021/07/01/e2b774a0-da15-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last=Chris Megerian, Del Quintin Wilber, and Janet Hook |date=2021-07-01 |title=Prosecutors: Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg dodged taxes for 15 years |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-07-01/hold-hold-new-york-prosecutorsxxxx-trump-organization-on-tax-charges |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

The case was adjourned for motions and eventual trial. In the meantime, the investigation into other criminal violations continued, led by Dunne and former federal prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who had been recruited by Dunne and DA Cyrus Vance to help lead the effort.{{Cite news |last1=Rashbaum |first1=William K. |last2=Protess |first2=Ben |last3=Bromwich |first3=Jonah E. |date=2021-02-18 |title=Manhattan D.A. Recruits Top Prosecutor for Trump Inquiry |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/nyregion/trump-investigation-manhattan.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

In December 2021, the investigation led to a series of meetings in which Dunne and Pomerantz made the case to District Attorney Cyrus Vance that a grand jury indictment should be sought against Donald J. Trump, based on evidence that he had engaged in a years-long scheme to falsify his business records and deceive financial institutions and others about the value of his real estate holdings and his net worth. The District Attorney agreed with the recommendation and authorized Dunne and Pomerantz to present evidence to a grand jury with the intention of seeking such charges.

On January 1, 2022, as the grand jury presentation was underway, a new District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, took office. Bragg had been elected in November 2021 (Cyrus Vance had declined to run for re-election). After hearing a series of presentations by Dunne and Pomerantz about the Trump investigation in January and February 2022, Bragg informed Dunne and Pomerantz on February 22, 2022, that he disagreed with the earlier decision by Cyrus Vance, and that Dunne and Pomerantz should discontinue their presentation of evidence to the grand jury. In response, Dunne and Pomerantz both resigned from their positions the next day.{{Cite web |last=Erik Larson |title=The 2 prosecutors in the Trump probe have resigned from the Manhattan district attorney's office |url=https://fortune.com/2022/02/23/trump-prosectors-resigned-carey-dunne-mark-pomerantz/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=Fortune |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=William K. Rashbaum, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, Kate Christobek and Nate Schweber |date=2022-02-23 |title=2 Prosecutors Leading N.Y. Trump Inquiry Resign, Clouding Case's Future |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/23/nyregion/trump-ny-fraud-investigation.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

A resignation letter from Pomerantz to Bragg, which later became public, asserted that the investigation team had no doubt that Trump had committed crimes, and that the public interest warranted a prosecution without delay. (Dunne's resignation letter has not been made public.){{Cite news |date=2022-03-23 |title=Read the Full Text of Mark Pomerantz's Resignation Letter |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/mark-pomerantz-resignation-letter.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Shayna Jacobs, Josh Dawsey and Jonathan O'Connell |date=March 23, 2022 |title=Prosecutor who resigned over stalled Trump probe says ex-president committed felonies |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/23/trump-pomerantz-resignation-guilty/}}{{Cite web |last=Lois Beckett |date=2022-03-24 |title=Trump committed 'numerous' felonies, said resigning New York prosecutor – report |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/donald-trump-crime-accusation-prosecutor-mark-pomerantz |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite news |last1=Rashbaum |first1=William K. |last2=Protess |first2=Ben |last3=Bromwich |first3=Jonah E. |date=2022-03-23 |title=Trump Is Guilty of 'Numerous' Felonies, Prosecutor Who Resigned Says |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/trump-investigation-felony-resignation-pomerantz.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

In the wake of the resignations, Bragg's office asserted that the investigation remained ongoing.{{Cite news |last1=Bromwich |first1=Jonah E. |last2=Rashbaum |first2=William K. |last3=Protess |first3=Ben |date=2022-04-07 |title=Under Fire, Manhattan D.A. Defends Handling of Trump Investigation |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/07/nyregion/trump-investigation-alvin-bragg.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}} However, on April 29, 2022, the New York Times reported that "new signs have emerged that the former president will not be indicted in Manhattan in the foreseeable future – if at all."{{Cite news |last1=Protess |first1=Ben |last2=Bromwich |first2=Jonah E. |last3=Rashbaum |first3=William K. |last4=Nguyen |first4=Lananh |date=2022-04-29 |title=Likelihood of Trump Indictment in Manhattan Fades as Grand Jury Wraps Up |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/29/nyregion/trump-investigation-alvin-bragg-grand-jury.html |access-date=2022-05-01 |issn=0362-4331}}

In January 2023, Dunne co-founded [https://www.freeandfairlitigation.org/ Free and Fair Litigation Group] with Mark Pomerantz and Michele Roberts. Free and Fair is a 501(c)-3 non-profit law firm focused on fighting authoritarianism in America by bringing and defending constitutional cases. The firm selects its cases based on their potential to create new laws that would safeguard democratic elections and constitutional principles.{{Cite web |title=Top prosecutor who investigated Trump has new targets |url=https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/top-prosecutor-who-investigated-trump-has-new-targets-159800389854 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}} Dunne told the Washington Post: "We’re dealing with a whole national movement that is aimed at rolling back rights we’ve taken granted for generations."

The firm is non-partisan and focuses exclusively on the courts. The firm's model provides senior leadership in cases, in partnership with pro bono teams at major law firms and other non-profits nationwide. All of its services are provided on a pro bono basis. The group's founding principals also work without compensation.

As of August 2023, the firm's docket includes:

• A major lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 against Governor Ron DeSantis and other Florida officials, alleging that the Governor and officials intimidated Floridian residents with prior felony convictions from exercising their right to vote{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Shayna |date=2023-07-19 |title=DeSantis, others sued over alleged 'election police' voter intimidation |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/19/desantis-lawsuit-felon-voting-rights/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |newspaper=Washington Post}}{{Cite web |last=Fineout |first=Gary |date=2023-07-19 |title=Florida and DeSantis blasted over voter eligibility in new federal lawsuit |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/19/florida-and-desantis-blasted-over-voter-eligibility-in-new-federal-lawsuit-00107072 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Ellenbogen |first=Romy |date=2023-07-19 |title=Florida, DeSantis sued after rollout of felon voting rights restoration |url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/07/19/florida-vote-felon-restoration-amendment-4-desantis/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=Tampa Bay Times |language=en}}
• A constitutional challenge to Tennessee's [https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/education/legal/Prohibited%20Concepts%20in%20Instruction%20Rule%207.29.21%20FINAL.pdf 'prohibited concepts'] statute, which attempts to prohibit public school teachers from discussing issues related to racism, implicit bias, sexuality, the Civil War and other topics in their classrooms{{Cite news |last=Sargent |first=Greg |date=2023-07-27 |title=Opinion {{!}} Fed-up teachers in Tennessee find a novel answer to anti-woke hysteria |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/tennessee-teachers-lawsuit-antiwoke-restrictions-race-slavery/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-07-26 |title=Teachers association sues Tennessee education department |url=https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/video/teachers-association-sues-tennessee-education-department-101660375 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=Good Morning America |language=en}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2023-07-26 |title=Video Teacher says 'divisive concepts' law puts students at 'serious disadvantage' |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/teacher-divisive-concepts-law-puts-students-disadvantage-101702375 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=ABC News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Kruesi |first=Kimberlee |date=2023-07-26 |title=Tennessee educators file lawsuit challenging law limiting school lessons on race, sex and bias |url=https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-education-racism-classroom-bias-8c31a8bf3e9df7e62e912c576604ba07 |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=AP News |language=en}}
• The defense of four jurisdictions in Colorado against a Second Amendment challenge to the jurisdictions' right to ban assault weapons within their borders

Dunne served as a leader in the New York City Bar Association, including as vice-chair and chair of the Association's Judiciary Committee, the group that reviews the qualifications of candidates for positions in the state and federal judiciary.{{Cite web |title=Judiciary Committee - Judicial Office |url=http://nycbar.org/member-and-career-services/committees/judiciary-committee |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=nycbar.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=New York State Bar Association: Carey Dunne Bio |url=https://nysba.org/NYSBA/CLE/Biographies/Bio%20-%20Dunne.pdf}} In 2012, he was elected by the Association's 23,000 members to a two-year term as president, where he was responsible for all decisions, reports, and public communications on legal and policy issues addressed by the Association's 150 committees.{{Cite web |last=Carey R. Dunne |date=October 4, 2012 |title=President's Page October 2012: The City Bar's Commitment to Justice Everywhere |url=http://nycbar.org/media-listing/media/detail/the-city-bars-commitment-to-justice-everywhere-carey-r-dunne |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=nycbar.org |language=en}}

As President, Dunne created and oversaw the City Bar's Task Force on a Changing Profession, a blue-ribbon panel that proposed remedies to redress the effects of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on new members of the legal profession.{{Cite web |title=Task Force on New Lawyers in a Changing Profession |url=http://nycbar.org/member-and-career-services/committees/new-lawyers-in-a-changing-profession-task-force-on |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=nycbar.org |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Developing Legal Careers and Delivering Justice in the 21st Century |url=https://www2.nycbar.org/pdf/developing-legal-careers-and-delivering-justice-in-the-21st-century.pdf |website=nycbar.org}}

He also created the Court Square Law Project, a program in conjunction with CUNY School of Law to provide ‘low-bono’ representation by new lawyers on a non-profit basis.{{Cite web |date=January 28, 2019 |title=Court Square Law Project Receives ABA Award for Legal Access |url=https://www.omm.com/our-firm/media-center/press-releases/court-square-law-project/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=www.omm.com |language=en}}

In 2015, Dunne was nominated by the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination for appointment by the Governor to be the next Chief Judge of the State of New York.{{Cite news |last=James C. McKinley Jr. |first= |date=2015-10-15 |title=Seven Candidates Nominated for New York's Next Chief Judge |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/nyregion/seven-candidates-nominated-for-new-yorks-next-chief-judge.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=The Editorial Board |first= |date=2015-11-09 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Right Leader for New York's Courts |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/09/opinion/the-right-leader-for-new-yorks-courts.html |access-date=2022-04-28 |issn=0362-4331}}

Previously, Dunne served as Chair of the Special Commission on the Future of the New York State Courts, appointed by the then-Chief Judge, Judith Kaye, a panel that proposed constitutional reforms to improve the structure of the court system.{{Cite web |date=September 2008 |title=Justice Most Local: The Future of Town and Village Courts in New York State |url=http://www.nycourtreform.org/justice_most_local_part1.pdf}}

Dunne also served as the Chief Counsel to the New York State Commission on Drugs and the Courts, which issued a report that led to the creation of the nation's first rehabilitative drug courts.{{Cite web |date=June 2000 |title=Confronting the Cycle of Addiction & Recidivism: A Report to Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye by the New York State Commission on Drugs and the Courts |url=http://ww2.nycourts.gov/reports/addictionrecidivism.shtml#12 |website=nycourts.gov}}

He was also a member of the Chief Judge's Task Force on the New York State Constitution and the Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services.{{Cite web |date=November 17, 2017 |title=Judicial Task Force on the NYS Constitution to Reconvene with A Focus on Court System Reforms That May Be Achieved Via the Legislative Process |url=http://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2018-05/PR17_18.pdf |website=nycourts.gov/press}}{{Cite web |date=June 18, 2006 |title=Final Report to the Chief Judge of the State of New York: Commission on the Future of Indigent Defense Services |url=https://nycourts.gov/ip/indigentdefense-commission/IndigentDefenseCommission_report06.pdf |website=nycourts.gov}}

Dunne has served as a board member of the Legal Aid Society,{{Cite web |date=2008 |title=John J. McCloy Memorial Award |url=http://moderncourts.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mccloy_08.pdf |website=moderncourts.org}} the New York City Bar Association, the Lawyers Committee of The Innocence Project,{{Cite web |last=The New York County District Attorney's Office |date=November 18, 2021 |title=Full Remarks: D.A. Vance Moves to Vacate Wrongful Convictions in Murder of Malcolm X |url=http://www.publicnow.com/view/F396AAE3D7CF9B4A60C42EE09F8E8942ED9D7AE6 |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=www.publicnow.com}} Volunteers of Legal Service, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest,{{Cite web |date=February 17, 2015 |title=2015 Law & Society Award Luncheon-Post Event |url=https://www.nylpi.org/support-us/events/2015-law-society-award-luncheon-post-event/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=New York Lawyers for the Public Interest |language=en-US}} the Fund for Modern Courts, the Federal Bar Council, and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.

Dunne has been a recipient of the Federal Bar Council's Whitney North Seymour Award for Outstanding Public Service,{{Cite web |title=Whitney North Seymour Award Recipients |url=https://www.federalbarcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Whitney-North-Seymour-Award-Recipients.pdf |website=Federal Bar Council}} the Brooklyn Bar Association's Volunteer Lawyers Project Dedication to Justice Award,{{Cite web |last=Rob Abruzzese |date=2017-05-12 |title=Volunteer Lawyers Projects honors 5 at annual awards gala |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/05/12/volunteer-lawyers-projects-honors-5-at-annual-awards-gala/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=Brooklyn Eagle |language=en-US}} the Fund for Modern Courts Award for Contributions to the Administration of Justice, the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Law and Society Award and Best Lawyers’ Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer of the Year.

Dunne is married to Kate Manning, an author and journalist. They have three grown children. Dunne also plays the drums, and while at Davis Polk formed an all-lawyer rock band called The Objections. Its motto was "A band whose appeal can never be denied."

• [https://www.freeandfairlitigation.org/ Fair and Free Litigation Group website]
• [https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cod.218964/gov.uscourts.cod.218964.1.0_1.pdf Complaint] publicly filed on 10/12/22 by Rocky Mountain Gun Owners against four Colorado jurisdictions to overturn bans on assault weapons
• [https://www.freeandfairlitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/complaint.pdf Complaint] publicly filed in Florida on 7/19/23 against Governor Ron DeSantis for violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
• [http://www.freeandfairlitigation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/teacomplaint.pdf Complaint] publicly filed in Tennessee on 7/25/23 challenging the constitutionality of the state's 'prohibited concepts' statute

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