In his 22 years as a litigator, Daniel Lula has successfully represented a diversity of businesses and nonprofits -- from military contractors and financial services companies, manufacturers and property management companies to adoption agencies and treatment centers -- in a wide variety of cases in state and federal courts and arbitration tribunals. He also has extensive experience advising and representing nonprofit entities, including religious and community organizations, in corporate governance and employment matters.
Daniel has spent his career immersed in the art and science of trial advocacy, and now brings that expertise to large- and medium-sized companies in their commercial and employment cases. His approach to legal services begins with listening to each client, thoroughly learning their business, internalizing their concerns and making their challenges his own. Daniel’s personal philosophy is to litigate every case as if it will go to trial, incur no legal expense before its time and always remember that success is resolving the dispute in the client’s favor in the most efficient way – not merely “scoring points” or litigating for its own sake.
Daniel's clients appreciate his calm, nonanxious presence, sober and clear advice and professional but aggressive approach that keeps adversaries off-balance and out-gunned. He concentrates on contract, corporate governance, trade secret and unfair competition disputes, as well as on defending businesses against claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.
Daniel is the Costa Mesa Labor and Employment Leader.