Daniel E. Livingston

Dan Livingston is an attorney who has been a labor and progressive activist in three states - New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. A life-time member of the United Auto Workers Union, Dan is the product of the marriage of a Union President, and a Social Worker, who boasts of being on picket lines before he could walk. Dan worked for two years as a Union organizer before entering Yale Law School in 1979. He graduated in 1982, and has since been admitted to the Connecticut and Federal district court bars, as well as the to the bar of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Dan has been a member of the firm for over 30 years and has been a partner for over 28 years. He has extensive experience in labor and employment law including arbitrations, and litigation before the State Labor Relations Board, the National Labor Relations Board, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities, the Connecticut Superior Court, the U.S. District Court, the Connecticut Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Dan also serves as chief negotiator in contract negotiations, and lead advocate in interest arbitrations, including the successful effort of State Employee Unions to secure health and pension benefits for domestic partners of the state's gay and lesbian employees. In 2002 and 2003, Dan served as the Chief Negotiator for the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC), as it fought to fend of then-Governor John Rowland’s decimation of public services and his layoff of nearly 3000 state workers. He continues to serve in that role, assisting Union leaders in forging agreements to protect public services and avoid layoffs with Governors Jodi Rell and Dannel Malloy.

Dan represents or works closely with a long list of labor and progressive organizations, including the UAW, SEBAC, the Congress of Connecticut Community Colleges, the CWA, the IAM, UNITE-HERE, the SEIU, the Hartford Police Union, the CFSA, CWEALF, the CCAG, and Citizens for Economic Opportunity, and has represented hundreds of individuals in discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination cases against their employers. Dan also serves as the Chair of Connecticut Health and Research Trust, parent foundation of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut.

Dan is a member of various professional associations, including the Labor and Employment Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, and the Lawyer's Coordinating Committee of the AFL-CIO, and has been selected to be a James P. Cooper Fellow. He has spoken and written on employment and labor law topics at various professional seminars and is widely known as a leader on those matters. He has received numerous awards and honors for his legal work, as well as his service to the progressive movement