Daniel P. Haley is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Boston office.
A member of the firm’s Government Strategies Practice Group, Dan specializes in federal and state elections law and lobbying compliance. He also advises clients on a wide range of regulatory matters at the federal, state, and local levels. He is currently the General Counsel of the Scott Brown for U.S. Senate Committee, overseeing all aspects of the legal and compliance operations of one of the highest profile federal candidacies in the country.
Dan is active in the firm’s Trial Department, where he represents clients in complex civil litigation and white collar criminal matters across multiple industries.
Prior to joining McDermott, Dan served in the Office of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, first as Deputy Legal Counsel to the Governor, and then as Chief of Staff and Legal Counsel to Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey and Assistant Chief of Staff to Governor Mitt Romney. As deputy legal counsel, Dan drafted and actively promoted passage of “Melanie’s Law,” a major anti-drunk driving initiative signed by Governor Romney in 2005.
Previously, Dan was a litigation associate at a major law firm based in Boston, where he represented clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters. He also served as a Special District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Before law school, Dan was a special assistant to the chairman of the Republican National Committee, a consultant to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and special assistant for the 1996 Republican National Convention. He also served as the RNC liaison to the Bush/Cheney transition in 2000.
Dan is a member of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Government Affairs Committee, and the Boston Bar Association’s Legislative Advisory Committee. Dan is also a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Youth Advocacy Foundation, an organization dedicated to providing legal representation and community-based services to at-risk children in the Boston area. He is an active member of the Lions Club in Holliston, his home town.
Dan is active in Massachusetts and national politics, is frequently quoted in local and statewide newspapers concerning political and legal issues, and is a periodic commentator on various radio and television news programs. He serves in a volunteer capacity as treasurer of the Charlie Baker for Governor Committee.
In June 2010, Campaigns & Elections' Politics magazine named Dan one of the ten most influential Republicans in Massachusetts. An October 2011 profile of Dan in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly called him, “a major law firm heavy-hitter who knows a thing or two about effective Republican leadership.”
Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2001
- Middlebury College, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1995
