Direct Dial: 860.241.2627
Facsimile: 860.522.2796
E-mail: dklau@pepehazard.com

BAR ADMISSIONS

United States Supreme Court

First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal

United States District Court (Districts of Connecticut , Massachusetts , and Eastern District of Michigan )

Connecticut

Massachusetts

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Former law clerk to Chief Justice Ellen A. Peters of the Connecticut Supreme Court (1990-91)

Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law (2003 to present)

Connecticut Bar Association

Hartford County Bar Association (Member of Board of Directors since 2003)

American Bar Association

Boston Bar Association

Defense Counsel Section of Media Law Resource Center, Inc.

Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, Board of Directors (since 2001)

Connecticut Civil Liberties Union , Legal Advisory Board

RESIDENCE

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS

Author, monthly column on appellate practice, The Connecticut Law Tribune

Co-author, “Top 25 Leading Decisions of the Connecticut Supreme Court of 2003,”

The Connecticut Law Tribune , February 2004.

Co-author, "Developments in the Second Circuit: 2000-2001” Connecticut Law Review (2002)

Presenter, "Winning on Appeal: The Art of Persuasion in Connecticut Appellate Practice"

( Connecticut Bar Association Seminar, 2001 and 2002)

Co-author, “CUTPA Liability and Professional Negligence: Recent Developments in the Law”

Connecticut Lawyer (Dec. 1998/Jan. 1999)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND EXPERIENCE:

The following are representative of Daniel’s accomplishments and experience:

Appellate Litigation

• Represented national publisher of legal newspapers and magazines in federal court appeal challenging Connecticut Judicial Branch practice of secretly sealing docket sheets in thousands of cases. Hartford Courant Company v. Pellegrino, 371 F.3d 49 (2d Cir. 2004).

• Represented major Hartford , CT law firm in successful appeal to Connecticut Supreme Court, resulting in reversal of $16 million legal malpractice award and entry of judgment in favor of law firm. Beverly Hills Concepts v. Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin , 247 Conn. 48 (1998)

• Represented nationwide coalition of local independent telephone companies in appeal to the United States Supreme Court challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission to promulgate rate-making rules under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. AT&T Corp. v. Iowa Utilities Bd. , 525 U.S. 366 (1999).
  
• Represent wife in divorce case appeal challenging the appealability of an interlocutory order directing spouse to pay her over $400,000 in legal fees. Perricone v. Perricone.

Media & Privacy Litigation

• Currently representing individual in federal court lawsuit against America Online and Fairfield Police Department for violating his privacy by releasing his subscriber information in violation of the Fourth Amendment and the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.

• Represented newspaper reporter in proceeding to quash subpoena requiring her to testify about her post-verdict conversations with a juror.
  
• Regularly represent newspapers in defamation and invasion of privacy actions.

EDUCATION

Boston University School of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 1990

University of California , San Diego , B.A., cum laude, with distinction in Political Science, 1984