Daniel Tobey, MD, JD

Founder and Executive Consultant - FlashLaw, LLC and Wolters Kluwer

Daniel Tobey founded the software company FlashLaw, LLC and served as Chief Executive Officer until its acquisition by Wolters Kluwer, a leading global information services and publishing company.  Tobey now serves as an executive consultant to Wolters Kluwer, advising on the development of new electronic products.
 
Tobey graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School.  At Harvard, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude with highest honors in social studies.  At Yale, Tobey studied health care law and received the Benjamin Scharps prize for the best overall paper by a third-year student and the Margaret Gruter Prize for the best paper on biological sciences and the law.  Tobey received a four-year Alumni Scholarship to study medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he was awarded the Southwestern Foundation Scholarship for "outstanding academic achievements."
 
Tobey has published original clinical research on pediatric oncology in the Journal of Pediatric Blood & Cancer and the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.  His writing on genetics, ethics, and law has appeared in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology.  Tobey practiced law at the firm of Vinson & Elkins in Dallas, TX, where he represented several hospitals.  He has also worked on Madison Avenue as an advertising copywriter; he authored the national tagline for the Sony Walkman 2000 television campaign, which received a Gold Effie.

Tobey is originally from Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended Paschal High School.