Daniels, Daniel L.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Daniel L. Daniels is a partner in the Private Client Services Department and divides his time between the firm's Stamford and New York offices. Dan focuses his practice representing business owners, corporate executives and other wealthy individuals and their families.

Dan is included on Worth magazine's list of the top 100 trust lawyers in the United States. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is listed in the The Best Lawyers in America (for more about the standards for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, please click here). Since 2006, Dan has been listed in Connecticut Super Lawyers magazine (for more information about the standards for inclusion in Connecticut Super Lawyers, please click here).

Dan is co-author of the book, Trusts and Estates Legal Strategies (2008 Aspatore Books) and has written numerous articles on estate and succession planning for various publications, including Trusts and Estates magazine, Estate Planning magazine, Practical Tax Strategies magazine, the National Law Journal, Exempt Organization Review. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the CBA Estates and Probate Newsletter. He also has been quoted on trust and tax-related subjects in various periodicals, including the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's Personal Finance and Financial Planning.

Dan is a frequent lecturer to lawyers and non-lawyers throughout the United States, including lectures before the Annual Meeting of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, the Advanced Estate Planning Conference of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning.

Dan is licensed to practice in Connecticut and New York. He is a member of the Executive Committees of both the Tax Section and the Estates and Probate Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, as well as the American, Connecticut, New York and Fairfield County Bar Associations. He has served on the boards of various civic and charitable organizations including the Fairfield County Community Foundation and the Harvard Law School Association of Connecticut.

Dan has a particular interest in working with owners of family- and closely-held businesses. He worked for several years in his own family's third generation family business. He is a member of the Family Firm Institute and Attorneys for Family Held Enterprises, as well as Wiggin and Dana's Closely Held Business Practice Group.

Dan received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and his J.D. with honors from the Harvard Law School. He and his wife and children live in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Areas of Practice

• Trusts and Estates
• Family Business
• Probate Litigation

West Practice Categories

Closely Held Businesses, Estate Planning, Trusts, Probate & Estate Administration

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1988
• Connecticut, 1991

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Connecticut Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Connecticut Bar Association
• New York Bar Association
• Fairfield County Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Listed in the Best Lawyers in America
• Included on the Worth Magazine List of the Top 100 Lawyers for Affluent Families in the United States

Education

• Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987
  J.D.
  Honors: With Honors
• Dartmouth College, 1984
  A.B.
  Honors: summa cum laude

Address

400 Atlantic Street
P.O. Box 110325
Stamford, CT 06911-0325

Phones

(203) 363-7665

Faxes

(203) 363-7676

Emails

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Websites

http://www.wiggin.com