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Daniel Young is an employment law and commercial litigation partner with Wofsey Rosen who has worked at the firm for over 25 years. He has significant experience representing individuals and companies, including those in the financial (including payment processing), education, medical, aviation, entertainment, and technology fields. Dan also has significant experience representing teachers, administrators, professors, and other employees working for public and private schools and universities, and he regularly represents non-profit institutions and employees working for non-profit organizations.

Dan represents both employees and employers in employment law negotiations and litigation in state and federal court, as well as in arbitration and before various state and federal administrative agencies. Dan regularly negotiates severance packages and settlement agreements between employers and employees, and he has significant experience negotiating, and if necessary, litigating, discrimination and whistleblower complaints as well as issues relating to agreements involving non-competes, non-solicitation, and other restrictive covenants.

In commercial litigation, Dan represents individuals and companies of all sizes, providing cost effective, sophisticated representation tailored to his clients’ goals. Dan represents numerous banks and other financial institutions, including several auto finance companies. Clients and adversaries often note Dan’s successful efforts in avoiding unnecessary litigation when matters can and should be settled. When litigation is warranted, however, Dan has achieved significant victories for clients in hotly contested jury trials, court trials, and public and private arbitrations. Several of these victories have received national media attention both because of the success of the legal theories advanced and because of the meaningful impact the matters have had for the firm’s clients and for the general public.

Dan graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations, with honors, in 1992. He earned his Juris Doctorate, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 1995, where he served as Executive Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law, graduated as a member of the Order of the Coif (top 10% of his class), and was awarded the Sol D. Kapelsohn Labor Law Prize for his work in the labor and employment fields. Following law school, Dan clerked in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for the Honorable Gerard L. Goettel.

Dan is a member of both the Connecticut and New York Bars, and he is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut and for the Southern District of New York, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

He has been honored to receive numerous legal industry accolades, some of which include being selected to The Best Lawyers in America^® for Employment Law – Individuals every year since 2014, and Connecticut Super Lawyers every year since 2011, while earning the designation of AV Preeminent^® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Dan also is listed as one of the New York Area’s Best Lawyers, and he has been recognized as one of the area’s “Top Lawyers” since 2011 in Greenwich Magazine, Stamford Magazine, and Connecticut Magazine.

Outside the office, for five years, Dan served on the State of Connecticut’s Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board, the governing body of the State of Connecticut’s Office of State Ethics. The Board administers Connecticut’s Code of Ethics for Public Officials and Code of Ethics for Lobbyists, and Dan was Governor Dannel Malloy’s first appointment to the Board. Prior to this appointment, Dan served for almost seven years on the City of Stamford’s Board of Ethics during both Republican and Democratic administrations, for the last two years serving as Chairman.

Dan is an active member of the Raymond Baldwin Chapter of the American Inns of Court, an organization dedicated to the training and education of trial attorneys. He is also a member of the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association, the Connecticut Bar Association, and the Fairfield County Bar Association.  He serves on the Advisory Board for the New York University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law, and he has spoken on panels at the Center’s Annual Conference on Labor and Employment Law. He has also served as a moderator for Institute of Judicial Administration’s Annual Workshops on Employment Law for Federal Judges.

He is an active member of Temple Beth El in Stamford, where he serves as its counsel, and he served on its Board of Trustee and as Vice President of its Executive Board for many years. Together with David Cohen, Dan is a trustee of the Claire Helsing Foundation, which provides funding to nonprofit organizations in the region, focusing primarily on food security, educational opportunities for youth, immigrant integration, and justice reform. Dan previously served for many years as a board member and general counsel of the Stamford Little League, and he was an instructor for the Stamford Board of Education’s Adult Education program for more than a decade.