A litigator and lobbyist with life-long professional ties to
Washington, D.C., Dan Hull practices in the areas of commercial litigation
(primarily U.S. federal courts and ADR abroad), environmental law,
employment practices law, and legislative affairs. A cum laude graduate of Duke University (B.A.
History), Dan was awarded a grant by Duke's Public Policy Science
Institute to work as a legislative assistant in health and environmental
policy for Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis) in Washington, D.C. (93rd
Congress). He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was an
editor of the Cincinnati Law Review.
Following law school, Dan worked as a
legislative assistant to Representative Bill Gradison (R-Ohio) in
Washington, D.C. in the areas of energy and environment (95th, 96th Congresses). Later, he joined the
Washington, D.C. office of Rose, Schmidt, & Dixon as an associate and,
eventually, a partner in the
firm's litigation and environmental law groups. Between 1989 and 1992, he split his
time between its Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh offices and eventually became the head
of the firm's environmental litigation department. On March 17,
1992, Dan founded the firm now known as Hull McGuire PC for the purpose of
focusing on business law, commercial
litigation, regulatory matters and legislative affairs.
Dan is a
member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Maryland, California, and
Pennsylvania. He is admitted to practice before a variety of federal trial
and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. He regularly
publishes articles and editorials and speaks concerning litigation,
environmental law, the legal profession, and international practice.
Dan is available to speak about these and other
topics.
Internationally, since 1997, Dan has participated in, moderated or served as
a speaker in conferences of the International
Business Law Consortium in England, Wales, Germany, France, Austria, Spain,
Canada, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Argentina and the United States. He is a member of both
the International Bar Association and the Congress of Fellows of the Center
for International Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He is listed in Who's
Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.
In recent years, Dan has also helped established writers and authors turn their fiction and non-fiction
works into feature films by production companies and studios in California
and New York.
Born in Washington, D.C., Dan was raised in Michigan,
Illinois and Ohio. He is a graduate of Indian Hill High School,
in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was Senior Class President, played tennis and
basketball, and was an Eagle Scout. He lives in San Diego,
California.
Locally, in San Diego, between 1998 and 2004,
Dan was an active member or officer of the Rancho Bernardo Planning Board,
a land use and zoning board chartered by the City and County of San Diego,
and serving a community of 45,000.
Dan's personal "blawg" is at www.whataboutclients.com.
What About Clients, a popular blawg with a world-wide audience, is about the art of making clients safe and happy.
The blawg puts special emphasis on how corporate boutique firms can court,
service and keep Fortune 500 clients.
Publications:
I. Articles:
Review
of Cicero on Friendship for Stephanie West Allen's column, Reading
Minds, Law Practice Magazine (ABA), March 2008
One
of us, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, February 3, 2008
A
Dark Legacy's Impact, WWP Magazine, May/June 2006
The
Clean Water Act: Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Going?,
WWP Magazine, March/April 2006
Is
California Still an At-Will Employment State?, Hull McGuire PC,
February 15, 2006 (with Amy C. Stohon and Thomas C. Welshonce)
Who's
Greener -- Democrats or Republicans?, WWP Magazine,
January/February 2006
Has
the NRDC Gone Hollywood?, WWP Magazine, November/December 2005
The
Earth Day Senator, Water and Wastewater Products Magazine,
September/October 2005
The
Law of Telecom: Identifying and Resolving Telecom Issues in
Acquisitions and Transactions, The Pennsylvania Lawyer,
September/October 2005, at 30 (with Mark C. Del Bianco)
A
Very Short History of Environmental Crime (available
in searchable PDF), Water &
Wastewater Products Magazine, July/August 2005, at 16
Hitting
High Gear: EPA's New "Nonroad" Diesel Rule for Controlling
Emissions from Nonroad Diesel Engines is a Major Step Forward in Fighting
Air Pollution (available in JPG: pages 1
and 2), Environmental Protection,
June 2005, at 42 (with Brian J. Kahle)
"Professionalism"
Revisited (available in searchable
PDF), Pennsylvania Law Weekly, April 11, 2005; (also available online),
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 29, 2005
EPA's
new Nonroad Diesel Rule: Controlling emissions from diesel engines
(available in searchable PDF), The
Lawyer's Journal, March 4, 2005 (with Brian J. Kahle)
Is
California Still an At-Will Employment State?, Hull McGuire PC, December 1, 2003
(with A.M. Carlson)
New
Global Environmental Management Model Will Generate New Standards of
Care (available in PDF: pages 1
and 2),
Supplement (Clean Streams: The Course of Environmental Law) to Los
Angeles Daily J. and The San Francisco Daily J., July 16, 1998, at
24-25 (under title World Wide Guide)
Environmental
Model Generates New US Standards, Int’l Business Law Consortium Newsletter, May 1998
New
Global Environmental Management Model Will Generate New Standards of
Care,
21 Pa. L. Wkly. 341, March 30, 1998
ISO
14001: New Global Environmental Management Model Will Generate New
Standards of Care,
Pittsburgh Legal J., March 9, 1998, at 1
Changes
to Post-Trial Rules Give Clients Powerful Tool,
19 Pa. L. Wkly. 1471, Nov. 4, 1996 (with J.B. Roberts)
What
Federal Judges Can Teach Pennsylvania,
19 Pa. L. Wkly. 1196, Sept. 9, 1996
Practice
Pointers - A Difficult Deposition,
19 Pa. L. Wkly. 1074, Aug. 12, 1996 (with G.W. Schmidt, S.J. Agins)
U.S.
Supreme Court Limits Private Cost Recovery Actions Under RCRA
(available in PDF: pages 1,
2
and 3),
Pittsburgh Legal J., Aug. 12, 1996, at 1
Can
Pennsylvania Learn Anything from Its Federal Judges?,
Pittsburgh Legal J., Oct. 27, 1995, at 1 (with A.L. Boyer)
EPA
Rejects Self-Audit Privilege for Corporations in Environmental
Litigation (available in PDF: pages 1,
2
and 3),
Pittsburgh Legal J., May 2, 1995, at 1
Professionalism
Revisited: The Client’s Viewpoint (available in PDF: pages
1
and 2),
Pittsburgh Legal J., Sept. 28, 1994, at 1
Administration’s
Promises to Promote Natural Gas Development Fall Short
(available in PDF: pages 1,
2
and 3),
Pittsburgh Legal J., Aug. 10, 1994, at 1
Federal
Air Emissions Regulations Ill-Conceived?,
Pittsburgh Business Times, October 14, 1991
Federal
Appeals Court Ruling Delays Cogeneration Plans with Electric Utilities,
The Oil Daily, May 25, 1982, at 4 (with W.F. Cockrell)
II. Casenotes:
Involvement
in prior litigation does not make a plaintiff in a libel action a public
figure for purposes of the New York Times actual malice test - Time,
Inc. v. Firestone, 424 U.S. 448 (1975) 45 U. Cin. L. Rev. (1976)
Proof
that official action has racially discriminatory intent, not impact, is
required to establish a violation of the equal protection clause of the
fourteenth amendment - Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan
Housing Development Corp., 429 U.S. 252 (1977) 46 U. Cin. L. Rev. 611
(1977)
Note, Challenge to At large Election Schemes: City Government on
Trial, 47 U. Cin. L. Rev. 64 (1978)
