Daniel J. Hurson is a sole proprietor at The Law Offices of Daniel J. Hurson, LLC in Annapolis, MD. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Law School. He has been a trial lawyer and litigator for more than four decades, with substantial experience in white-collar criminal, securities fraud and representation of SEC whistleblowers. He served as law clerk to the Hon. Harrison L. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
During his career, Mr. Hurson tried cases for the U.S. government both as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland and later as an Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel for the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He received the Outstanding Service Award from the Attorney General of the United States for his work as a federal prosecutor. He has prosecuted and defended white-collar criminal cases and political corruption cases. He has also litigated civil rights, trademark, whistleblower, broker-dealer fraud, insider trading and legal and accounting malpractice cases. In its landmark opinion in the case of former Enron officer Jeffrey Skilling, the U.S. Supreme Court, in defining the “honest services” theory of mail fraud, cited a law review article on the subject written by Mr. Hurson.
Mr. Hurson has written extensively on whistleblower issues. His article titled “10 Rules for Becoming a Successful SEC Whistleblower” is widely read on the Internet. He wrote a chapter on the SEC whistleblower program in the book Corporate Whistleblowing Regulation, Theory, Practice and Design, Springer, 2020, and an article on representing whistleblowers in the ABA Journal of Employment Law, Spring 2017. He has spoken on whistleblowing issues at a number of legal symposiums.
Mr. Hurson has represented individuals and corporations before the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including FCPA, options backdating, insider trading and financial and accounting fraud cases. He has represented several corporations in bankruptcy-related actions against third-party professionals such as former lawyers and accountants. He has advised Special Committees of corporate boards in connection with international investigations. He has represented individual officers and directors in internal investigations and before the SEC.
Mr. Hurson has taught and lectured on trial practice, securities law and whistleblower issues at several national law schools and for the ABA and the District of Columbia Bar. Mr. Hurson is a past Chairman of the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar’s Committee on Corporation, Finance and Securities Law.
Mr. Hurson lives in Annapolis, Md with his wife Meg. They have five children and twelve grandchildren. Mr. Hurson serves as a Prison Minister and member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society at his parish.
