Dan Murphy is an associate in the employment, executive compensation & employee benefits group. Dan regularly assists employers with complex employment litigation matters, including disputes concerning restrictive covenants and trade secrets, discrimination matters, internal investigations, and claims brought by senior executives. Dan also assists clients with labor and employment diligence in large scale transactions. Dan maintains a robust pro bono practice representing asylum-seekers, helping reunite families with difficulty navigating the immigration process, and assisting indigent individuals proceed with divorce and child custody cases.
During law school, Dan served as co-director of the Georgetown Law Barristers Council’s Appellate Advocacy Division. Dan also served as student counsel in Georgetown’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, where he co-led a successful appeal before the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of an indigent client who was subjected to abuse and deliberate indifference by correctional officers. In the summer of 2019, Dan interned in the criminal and appellate divisions of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.