Daniel M. Hutchinson chairs the firm’s employment practice group and supports the firm’s employment cases. His practice has been focused on litigating, settling, and taking to trial complex class actions that have advanced the public interest. As a partner at Lieff Cabraser, Daniel served as lead or co-lead counsel on cases that recovered over $2 billion for his clients in all variety of industries and across myriad discrimination, unpaid wages, ERISA, consumer protection, and financial fraud cases.
Daniel has played as essential role in copyright class action litigation against Anthropic, where a proposed $1.5 billion settlement is the largest copyright class-action settlement in history.
Daniel’s employment litigation experience spreads across a wide variety of industries, He was a key player representing Indian nationals in wage theft litigation against Tata, taking the overtime claims of information technology workers to a trial victory against CSC, and litigating the discrimination claims of female managers at Costco.
Daniel has pursued dozens of class action consumer protection cases against major banks and financial services providers that place robocalls to consumers. Daniel’s efforts helped result in the largest monetary settlements in the history of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and ended harassing robocalls to millions of consumers.
Daniel has been recognized as a nationwide leader in employment law. In 2014, Law360 acknowledged Daniel as one of six of the nation’s top employment lawyers under 40. The Daily Journal named him as a “Top 40 Under 40” leading lawyer in California. The Recorder endorsed him as one of “50 Lawyers on the Fast Track.” Daniel has spoken and presented papers at national employment and consumer law conferences, including events sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law, the Mason Judicial Education Program, the Practising Law Institute, the Impact Fund, the UCLA School of Law, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and the Consumer Attorneys of California. Daniel has served as the Board Chair for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
Publications & Presentations
•Facilitator, “Current Government Trends Impacting EEO Practitioners,” ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law National Conference on EEO Law, March 2025
•Panelist, “Navigating Expanding Expectations Around Corporate Social Responsibility,” ABA 2023 National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, March 2023
•Panelist, “Ascertainability isn’t a thing. Or is it?” Impact Fund Class Action Conference, February 2019
•Panelist, “Employment Discrimination Class Actions Post-Dukes,” Consumer Attorneys of California 50th Annual Convention, 2011
•“Ten Points from Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.,” 20(3) CADS Report 1, Spring 2010
•Panelist, “Rethinking Pro Bono: Private Lawyers and Public Service in the 21st Century,” UCLA School of Law, 2008
•Author and Panelist, “Pleading an Employment Discrimination Class Action” and “EEO Litigation: From Complaint to the Courthouse Steps,” ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Second Annual CLE Conference, 2008
•Co-Presenter, “Rule 23 Basics in Employment Cases,” Strategic Conference on Employment Discrimination Class Actions, 2008
Honors & Awards
•Selected for inclusion by peers in The Best Lawyers in America in the field of “Employment Law-Individuals,” 2020-2023, 2026
•“Super Lawyer for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2013-2026
•“Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers in America,” Lawdragon, 2018-2025
•“Rising Star,” Law360, 2014
•Legal 500 recommended lawyer, LegalEase, 2013
•“50 Lawyers on the Fast Track,” The Recorder, 2012
•“Rising Star for Northern California,” Super Lawyers, 2009-2012
In the News
•August 21, 2025
36 Lieff Cabraser Lawyers Named to 2026 Best Lawyers Listings
•August 8, 2025
Ten Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized by Lawdragon as “Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers” for 2025
•June 30, 2025
28 Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Selected as 2025 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
•July 26, 2024
Ten Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized by Lawdragon as “Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers” for 2024
•July 31, 2023
Nine Lieff Cabraser Attorneys Recognized by Lawdragon as “Leading Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Lawyers” for 2023
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