Daniel A. Katz

Mr. Daniel A. Katz is Partner/Senior Counsel at Gilbert Employment Law with extensive experience representing plaintiffs in wage and hour and discrimination litigation in federal and state courts. He also represents individuals before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and state and local fair employment practices agencies. Reflecting his concern with the rights of low-income workers, Mr. Katz served as a founding member of the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Employment Justice Center. He provides pro bono legal services to low-income workers through that agency, as well as to Hispanic and immigrant workers through pro bono assistance provided to numerous non-profit community organizations, including First Shift (Washington, D.C.), the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, the Maryland Women's Law Center, the Sexual Assault Legal Institute, and the Public Justice Center. He is active in the plaintiffs' employment bar through the National Employment Lawyers Association, and its affiliates the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association (MWELA), and the Maryland Employment Lawyers Association (MELA). Mr. Katz regularly presents on employment law topics at Continuing Legal Education programs sponsored by the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, as well as NELA, MWELA, and MELA. He has also submitted amicus ("friend of the court") briefs to appellate courts in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Awards and Honors Honors Super Lawyers, Maryland and District of Columbia, 2013-present District of Columbia Employment Justice Center Co-Counsel of the Year, 2012

• Partner and Senior Counsel

• Amaya, et al. v. Power Design, 833 F.3d 440 (4th Cir. 2016). This decision established circuit precedent that employees who should be paid pursuant to federal prevailing wage laws may bring litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act to recover unpaid overtime wages, and that the correct measurer of those damages are the wages set by the David-Bacon Act, not the lesser wages the plaintiffs were paid.
• Peters v. Early Healthcare Giver, Inc., 97 A.3d 621, 439 Md. 646 (2014) (co-authored amicus curiae brief). This decision held that unpaid minimum wages and unpaid overtime wages could be recovered under Maryland’s Wage Payment and Collection Law, which allows for the awarding of treble damages. The Court explicitly rejected prior federal court decisions that held that unpaid minimum wages or overtime wages were not subject to the treble damages provision of the statute.

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims

• Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers' Association (MWELA), 2005 - Present (Board of Directors)
• Maryland Employment Lawyers Association (MELA)
• National Employment Lawyers Association
• District of Columbia Bar Association
• Maryland State Bar Association
• District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association