Daniel J. O’Rielly

Mr. O’Rielly has mediated and successfully resolved hundreds of cases, both as an advocate and as a mediator. He draws on this experience to craft a customized approach for each mediation he handles, including creating an individualized process designed to fit the dispute, not the other way around. He draws on his substantive experience handling law firm legal issues and on his own experience working at law firms, founding a law firm, and running a law firm, for every law firm mediation.

Mr. O’Rielly has worked at law firms for over 25 years—including large, medium, and small firms. He began his legal career in Chicago, working at large and small firms in commercial and complex litigation. He later moved to California, continuing to focus on complex litigation as a trial attorney at mid-sized and small law firms. He founded his own law firm in 2007 and grew it into an industry-leading voice and authority on California law firm issues.

Mr. O’Rielly’s substantive expertise and experience in law firm issues inform every mediation he handles. He counsels and advises California law firms on critical issues at every stage of law firm life, providing insight, analysis, and judgment to California law firms seeking to solve their most important challenges:

Mr. O’Rielly calls on his diverse legal background for every mediation. He knows litigation firms, because he has been a litigator and a trial attorney. He knows transactional practices, because his practice now is focused on law firm advice and planning. He knows the challenges of law firm founders, because he is one. He knows the challenges of running and growing a law firm, because he does it every day.

Mr. O’Rielly’s practice experience also give him an invaluable perspective for mediating law firm issues, because he sees law firm best practices—and worst practices—on a daily basis.