Daniel E.Waldman

Partner

Dan guides some of the world's best-known companies through their most complex international employment law challenges.


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Seyfarth's team of international employment attorneys is best known for assisting the world's largest multinational companies through their most complex international employment law challenges. As an integral part of this team, Dan draws on his two decades of experience and education in international relations to deliver legal solutions and value to clients. Dan is uniquely positioned to provide strategic and practical global workplace advice due to his extensive background working in-house for large corporations and in strategic human resource management, including starting and running various successful businesses.

Practical, sharp, and commercial, Dan is a consummate workforce architect. Dan and Seyfarth's global network of international labor and employment attorneys solve critical legal challenges across multiple countries, especially across unstable geopolitical landscapes. Clients rely on Dan to align corporate strategy with human capital philosophy, translating broad objectives into actionable, sound, strategic, and country-specific initiatives.
 
In today's dynamic business environment, effective change management is vital. Seyfarth assists clients with workplace transformations, including mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, downsizing, and divestitures, focusing on people-related aspects. Seyfarth offers tailored solutions, from risk assessments to process optimization, integrating technology and innovation to drive efficiency. Dan has significant experience managing multicountry outsourcing transactions and ensuring compliance with labor laws for dispatched workers, staff leasing, and joint employment. He also advises on cost cutting and efficiency initiatives, harmonizing employment documents, and streamlining policies and HR documents for multinational employers.
 
Dan helps clients develop strategic human capital initiatives that align with corporate values and drive long-term success. He collaborates with leadership teams to design global policies, focusing on recruitment, retention, and compensation frameworks, and advises on integrating corporate values into employee engagement programs across multiple jurisdictions.
 
Dan received his MBA in Strategic Human Resource Management from the University of Wisconsin, his JD from the University of Wisconsin, and his BA from the University of Rochester.

  • MBA, University of Wisconsin School of Business
    Strategic Human Resource Management
  • JD, University of Wisconsin Law School

    Cum laude
    Director of Street Law Program
    Instructing Teaching Assistant

  • BA, University of Rochester
    Political Science

    Honors Program
    Chester Dewey, Isaac David Extemporaneous Speech Contest winner
    National Security Policy teaching assistant

  • California
  • New York
  • US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • US District Court, Central District of California
  • US District Court, Eastern District of California
  • US District Court, Northern District of California
  • US District Court, Southern District of New York