About Daniel J. Sobol

Daniel’s national practice is dedicated to representing employers across industries in a range of traditional labor, union, and employment matters. Clients rely on him to defend all manner of employment-related lawsuits and to navigate unfair labor practice charges, prevailing wage matters, representation complexities, and various issues before the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), as well as collective bargaining, grievance arbitrations, and labor injunctions. Daniel has also successfully managed numerous threatened and actual labor disruptions including picketing, lockouts, and strikes. His representations include assisting management and executive leadership with various employment and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) issues, and he is often called upon to serve as labor counsel in mergers and acquisitions transactions.

As a strategic ally to employers, Daniel works closely with management teams to create and implement labor relations plans and business-minded approaches to collective bargaining, labor contracts, wage and hour issues, and union election and management matters. He has defended regional and national employers against union organization and has created comprehensive labor relations strategies that mitigate unionization within their businesses. Additionally, Daniel provides supervisor and management training that focuses on identifying and resolving workplace issues and labor disputes unique to his clients’ individual businesses.

Daniel is a frequent writer and speaker on labor matters as well as on NLRB developments and newly enacted labor laws.

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Experience

  • Successfully represented a large hospital network in a decertification of a 200+ employee Unit.
  • Defeated a Union’s corporate organizing campaign involving 10+ petitions over a three-year period for a publicly traded national diagnostics company. 
  • Coordinated and successfully strategized to defeat numerous union organizing efforts for large hospital networks, hotel chains, casinos, transportation companies, cannabis employers, and construction companies.
  • Successfully navigated a three-week strike for a national transportation company.
  • Counseled a national entertainment company through a nine-month strike which ended in the Union disclaiming interest in the bargaining unit.
  • Obtained a precedential National Labor Relations Board ruling restricting picketing activity in the construction industry.
  • Won a precedential NLRB ruling concerning Union bargaining obligations.
  • Obtained employer verdict in a NLRB trial alleging discriminatory discharge for a regional parking company.
  • Successfully defended four whistle blower complaints for a publicly traded pharmaceutical company.
  • Defended a multimillion-dollar claim for withdrawal liability levied against a manufacturing company.

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Recognitions

  • 2027, “Leading Corporate Employment Lawyer,” listed by Lawdragon
  • 2025–2026, Labor & Employment Law, listed in Chambers USA
  • 2014–2019, Pennsylvania “Rising Star” in Employment & Labor, listed in Super Lawyers
  • 2014–present, listed in Best Attorneys of America

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Memberships

  • Building Industry Association of Philadelphia
  • Associated Builder Contractor Association

Professional Activities

Daniel is a member of the Board of Directors of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia and serves on Law360’s 2025 Employment Authority Labor Editorial Advisory Board.

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Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • Massachusetts
  • New York

Court Admissions

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court - New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York

Education

  • Columbia University School of Law, JD
  • Temple University, BA, Phi Beta Kappa

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