Daniel J. Krisch

As Chair of the Halloran & Sage Appellate Practice Group, Daniel partners with a wide variety of corporate, institutional and individual clients to resolve complex legal issues during all stages of litigation. Daniel has argued nearly 120 appeals; they have involved multi-million dollar tort verdicts, commercial and contract litigation, complex divorce cases, zoning and land use matters, serious criminal convictions, election disputes, and issues of constitutional law and fundamental rights. In 2008, while at his prior firm, Daniel won reversal of a $41 million judgment against Sordoni/Skanska Construction Co., the largest tort judgment reversed on appeal in Connecticut history.

Daniel’s two decades of experience have taught him that appeals begin long before they’re filed and that sometimes the best appeal is the one that’s never filed. Daniel advises clients about appellate issues and helps clients anticipate and prepare for appeals, all while bearing in mind that the ultimate goal is the path that takes clients where they want to go. Daniel frequently assists trial lawyers and insurers with raising, arguing and properly preserving potential appellate issues during trial and regularly represents companies, insurers and individuals in civil litigation in state and federal court. Daniel also counsels and represents municipalities, candidates and interested individuals in election disputes and in proceedings before the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

Daniel is AV-rated by the peer-reviewed legal directory Martindale-Hubbell. He has been recognized since 2011 by The Best Lawyers in America® in the categories of Appellate and Insurance Law, and since 2008 by Super Lawyers® in the areas of Appellate; Civil Litigation: Defense; and Criminal Defense. Daniel is co-author of The Encyclopedia of Connecticut Causes of Action, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and has taught moot court and appellate advocacy at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Daniel began his career in 1999 as law clerk to Ellen Peters, former Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Prior to joining Halloran & Sage, Daniel was a partner at a boutique appellate firm in Hartford where, from 2004-2011, he co-authored the Connecticut Superior Court Civil Rules, Annotated, and the Connecticut Superior Court Juvenile Rules, Annotated.