Professional Experience:

Daniel P. O'Meara is a partner and chair of the Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP Labor and Employment Department. He is the Responsible Partner for Montgomery McCracken's Berwyn office. He has been a practicing attorney for over twenty-two years, with extensive experience in employment litigation, labor relations and preventive human resource practices. Mr. O'Meara has successfully tried cases to a conclusion in state and federal courts, and in arbitration. He served for a time as the sole in-house employment counsel at a Fortune 200 company.  

Mr. O'Meara is the Managing Director of the Wharton School Council on Employee Relations and is a Senior Fellow of the Wharton School Center for Human Resources. His book, Protecting the Growing Number of Older Workers: the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (University of Pennsylvania) was reviewed in one national magazine as "a masterful work" and "both readable and informative," and has been cited in publications such as the Harvard Law Review.  Mr. O'Meara is also the author of a 1000+ page book, O'Meara, Employment Arbitration (LexisNexis 2008) which has been described in national magazines as "timely," "balanced," and "a comprehensive review and discussion of the totality of employment arbitration law" and cited in a landmark judicial opinion.

Mr. O'Meara has been consulted by and featured as an employment law expert on programs such as NBC News Dateline, MSNBC, the Oprah Winfrey Show and National Public Radio Marketplace. He has been quoted on employment law topics in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Time. He has written articles for a variety of publications, including HR Magazine and HR Professional.

Mr. O'Meara has substantial experience in matters involving trade secrets, noncompete agreements, and the employee duty of loyalty. He has written and spoken extensively on these subjects, and in a two-year period, obtained over 60 injunctions for employers in courts around the country.  Mr. O'Meara is the chair of the firm's Trade Secret and Noncompete Litigation practice group.

Bar Associations:

Mr. O'Meara is the Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Subcommittee on Trade Secrets and Noncompetes.

Admitted to Practice:

Mr. O'Meara is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.  He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, and the Northern District of Illinois.

Education:

Mr. O'Meara received his Bachelor's Degree in Labor Studies, with honors, from Penn State. He went on to earn an MBA in Human Resource Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.