Daniel Lac

Personal Introduction

Daniel counsels employers on a wide range of labor and employment issues with the aim of minimizing legal exposure and maintaining compliance, ranging from leaves of absence, reduction-in-force planning, advising on employee communications, conducting audits and workplace trainings, directing internal and external investigations, and reviewing and revising policies and procedures. Daniel regularly represents employers, directors, officers and executives in the drafting, reviewing and negotiation of agreements relating to executive employment, director and advisory boards, arbitration, severance, settlement, confidentiality/proprietary information and invention assignment, equity, retention, commissions, bonuses, change of control transactions, noncompetition, staffing agencies and professional employer organizations (PEOs), consulting, and service providers. Daniel has also previously worked on labor and employment transactional matters such as buy- and sell-side M&A, divestitures, spinoffs, asset purchases, VC financings and initial public offerings (IPOs). Daniel has significant experience investigating and leading employment litigation and agency enforcement matters – including prosecutions of labor contractors for unpaid wages and defending employers in wage-and-hour class, representative and agency actions, single-plaintiff actions involving wrongful termination, whistleblower retaliation, harassment, discrimination, and trade secrets and unfair competition actions. In addition, Daniel has broad understanding of labor and union matters, having participated in successful representative elections and hearings before the National Labor Relations Board. Prior to joining Mill Law Center, Daniel was a labor and employment attorney at the global law firms of Cooley and DLA Piper. Before attending law school at the University of California, Berkeley, he served as a labor compliance officer for the second-largest public school system in the United States, where he investigated and prosecuted wage claims.