Dan is the co-managing partner of Heenan Blaikie’s Ottawa office, and the practice group leader of the Ottawa Labour and Employment group. He regularly advises employers with respect to union organizing and certification, collective bargaining, injunctions, wrongful dismissal actions, employee terminations, labour arbitrations, pay equity, human rights, occupational health and safety, workplace safety and insurance and workplace privacy. Dan has appeared before many courts and tribunals, including boards of arbitration, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and Appeals Tribunal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Federal Court of Appeal.

Dan is a member of the Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario and the Ontario Bar Association. He is the past Eastern Ontario Representative on the Ontario Bar Association Labour Relations Section Executive and is currently the Eastern Ontario Regional Coordinator on the Privacy Law Section Executive. He was a long-time member on the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Human Resources Professionals Association and chaired the Government Affairs Liaison Committee. Dan received a B.A. from McGill University in 1989, a B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill University in 1993, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995.