Daniel E. Livingston

Dan Livingston is an attorney who has been a labor and progressive activist in three states -- New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A life-time member of the United Auto Workers Union, Dan is the product of the marriage of a Union President, and a Social Worker, who boasts of being on picket lines before he could walk. Dan worked for two years as a Union organizer before entering Yale Law School in 1979. He graduated in 1982, and has since been admitted to the Connecticut and Federal district court bars, as well as the to the bar of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Dan has been a member of the firm for over 20 years and has been a partner for over 18 years. He has extensive experience in labor and employment law and has handled as counsel or co-counsel many employment matters in various forums, including the National Labor Relations Board, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, the Connecticut Superior Court, the U.S. District Court, the Connecticut Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Most recently Dan served as lead counsel in the successful effort of State Employee Unions to secure health and pension benefits for domestic partners of the state's gay and lesbian employees.

Dan represents or works closely with a long list of labor and progressive organizations, including the UAW, SEBAC (a coalition of all State Employee Unions), the Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges, the CWA, the IAM, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, the SEIU, CWEALF, the CCAG, and Citizens for Economic Opportunity, and has represented hundreds of individuals in discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination cases against their employers. He is a member of various professional associations, including the Labor and Employment Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, and the Lawyer's Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO, and has been selected Association to be a James P. Cooper Fellow. He has spoken and written on employment and labor law topics at various professional seminars and is widely known for his expertise on those matters. He serves as a Special Master for the Federal District Court.

Dan is a member of numerous community and labor organizations, among them CWEALF, Citizen's for Economic Opportunity, the National Organization for Women, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, NARAL, CEO, CCAG the National Lawyer's Guild, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Foundation, and the UAW. Dan also sits on the Board of several charitable organizations, including the Community Skills Building Foundation, the Anthem Foundation of Connecticut, and The Connecticut Health and Research Trust.