Dan Murphy is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s Boston office and a member of the firm’s employment, executive compensation, and employee benefits practice. He helps employers resolve high-stakes workplace disputes, focusing his practice on complex employment litigation on behalf of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Dan is often brought in when a departing executive or a competitor puts a company’s confidential information, customer relationships, or key talent at risk.
Dan regularly represents employers in trade secret litigation and restrictive covenant disputes. He also handles discrimination matters, whistleblower actions, and internal investigations, as well as actions brought by highly compensated executives. Before a dispute reaches the courtroom, Dan provides pre-litigation counseling and risk assessment to help clients evaluate their options. He also assists clients with employment, separation, and restrictive covenant agreements.
On the transactional side, Dan supports deal teams with labor and employment due diligence in large-scale mergers and acquisitions, identifying workforce-related issues that may affect a transaction.
As chair of the Housing Division of Ropes & Gray’s Medical Legal Partnership with Dorchester House, Dan maintains a robust pro bono practice. He has successfully represented clients in summary process eviction trials and related proceedings, obtained favorable outcomes in divorce and child custody cases, and assisted claimants secure wrongfully denied social security benefits.
During law school, Dan served as co-director of the Georgetown Law Barristers Council’s Appellate Advocacy Division. He 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. 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.