Daniel is co-chair of O’Melveny’s State Attorneys General Investigations and Litigation Group. He is an experienced litigator and strategic advisor who guides companies and their senior leadership through complex legal, regulatory, and business challenges, including government investigations, State AG litigation, complicated multistate settlement negotiations, public policy challenges, and media scrutiny. He also represents government agencies in appellate litigation, investigations, and regulatory counseling matters.

Ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA in the nationwide State Attorneys General legal rankings, Daniel has been at the center of some of the most high-profile and complex multistate investigations, mergers, litigation, and settlements of the past decade. Clients turn to Daniel for his ability to proactively advance and defend their interests in complicated regulatory landscapes spanning life sciences, technology, aviation, consumer goods, automotive, financial services and government entities. Chambers USA quotes clients who describe Daniel as a “creative problem-solver” and appreciate that he “provides concise legal advice and strategy concerning business decisions” and “is well-connected and relationship focused both internally and externally.”

Daniel previously served as Chief of Policy and Senior Counsel to California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris. In that position, he was a member of the four-person executive team that supervised and operated the 5,000-person California Department of Justice. As Harris’s primary legal policy advisor, Daniel was responsible for developing and executing the Attorney General’s policy initiatives and supervising some of the department’s most complex and high-profile matters, covering healthcare, technology and privacy, criminal justice, civil rights, environmental and consumer law. As a result, he has a deep understanding of the national State AG landscape and the best strategies for engagement with AG’s offices. Daniel has successfully handled high-stakes matters before every State AG in the United States.