Daniel P. Suitor
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Daniel is a member of Nichols Kaster’s ERISA litigation team, which works to protect employees’ hard-earned retirement savings from mismanagement and malfeasance by employers and financial companies.
Prior to joining the firm, Daniel worked as a Housing Attorney for HOME Line, a Minnesota-based tenants’ rights nonprofit. He joined HOME Line during his third year at the University of Minnesota Law School, through the Saeks Public Interest Residency program. In addition to advising 3,730 renters across the state, he defended tenants in eviction cases and worked on state and local legislative policy issues.
While in law school, Daniel served as the Lead Symposium Editor for the Minnesota Law Review. His student note surveying the constitutional rights of unhoused people, and drafting a law to better enforce them, was published in the first issue of MLR Volume 106. Based on his Note, Daniel was selected as the winner of the Steven M. Block Prize for Most Outstanding Article by a Graduating Student in the Area of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Prior to law school, Daniel earned a B.S. in Management Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and worked as a tax consultant and corporate financial analyst.
Daniel’s preferred pronouns are he/him/his.
Education
- J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, Labor & Employment Concentration
- B.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Management Engineering
Admissions
- Minnesota Supreme Court
Presentations & Publications
- Consumers Are Tenants, Too: The Intersection of Consumer and Landlord/Tenant Law, MSBA CLE, October 18, 2023
- Tenant/Landlord Webinar: Going to Conciliation Court, HOME Line, September 18, 2024
- Daniel P. Suitor, Note, You Don’t Have a Home to Go to but You Can Stay Here: A Bill of Rights for Unhoused Minnesotans, 106 Minn. L. Rev. 525 (2021)
- Daniel P. Suitor, Winning What’s Owed: A Litigative Approach to Reparations, 105 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 391 (2021)
- Daniel P. Suitor, Symposium Foreword, A Hill to Die On: Federal Court Reform in the 2020s, 106 Minn. L. Rev. 2591 (2022)
- Daniel P. Suitor, It’s Colder Day by Day: Adopting a Winter Eviction Moratorium in Minnesota, Minn. L. Rev.: De Novo (Apr. 16, 2021)