Daniel Dowdy

Daniel R. Dowdy is an associate at Selikoff & Cohen. Daniel has represented unions and union members before the Public Employment Relations Commission, the Office of Administrative Law, the School Ethics Commission, and other state agencies; in state trial and appellate courts; and in TEACHNJ tenure proceedings. Areas of expertise include workplace accommodation and discrimination claims, tenure rights claims, unfair labor practices, school ethics complaints, tenure charges and other disciplinary matters. As a law student, Daniel served as president of Rutgers-Camden's National Lawyers Guild chapter, student coordinator of the Voters' Rights Project, and student pro bono director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. During the summer of 2017, he was a Peggy Browning Fellow, named after the first union-side lawyer appointed to the National Labor Relations Board. Daniel was also a Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, working closely with policy staff in the New Jersey Senate Democrats Office. Daniel joined the firm in 2019 after a clerkship in Camden Superior Court with the Hon. Gwendolyn Blue, J.S.C. Awards and Honors Honors ABA-Bloomberg BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law, 2018 Dean’s Pro Bono Publico Award for Exceptional Pro Bono Service to the Community, 2018 Mary Philbrook Student Public Interest Award, 2017

• Associate

• Jones v. Winslow Twp. Bd. of Educ., Agency Dkt. No. 182-8/20, Commissioner’s Decision (Sept. 28, 2021)
• Deptford Tp. Bd. of Educ. v. Deptford Educ. Ass’n, 49 NJPER ¶ 47 (2022)

• New Jersey
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey

• New Jersey State Bar Association
• National Lawyers Guild
• American Bar Association
• Eagleton Institute of Politics, Fellow, 2017-2018
• Peggy Browning Fellow, Summer 2017 (The Previant Law Firm, Milwaukee, WI)
• New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, Editorial Board Member, 2019-present
• Sidney Reitman Employment Law American Inn of Court, 2019-present