Daniel graduated from the University of South Carolina Honors College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law. While in law school, Daniel served on the Editorial Board of the South Carolina Law Review and received the CALI Award for Legal Drafting.

After graduating law school, Daniel practiced in the area of workers’ compensation insurance defense in South Carolina. In 2011, he joined a North Carolina law firm, where his primary area of practice continued to be workers’ compensation insurance defense. He is licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina. In 2018, he was inducted as a Fellow into the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers.

Daniel was designated a Medicare Set-Aside Certified Consultant (MSCC) by the International Commission on Health Care Certification (ICHCC), as well as a Certified Medicare Secondary Payer Professional (CMSP) by the Louisiana Association of Self Insured Employers (LASIE). He was certified as a Circuit Court Mediator by the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification.

Daniel has been included in The Best Lawyers in America© for Workers’ Compensation from 2010 to the present. He has earned the highest (AV-Rated) ranking awarded by Martindale-Hubbell.

In 2015, the South Carolina Bar published his book, “Medicare Issues in Liability and Workers’ Compensation Settlements.” He is author of the article 2007 South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Reform Act: An Overview, published in South Carolina Lawyer magazine, and is co-author of the treatise Beard, Poteat, Lamar, Sumwalt, Hayes, The Law of Workers’ Compensation Insurance in South Carolina, Fifth Edition, published by the South Carolina Bar. He wrote the Concurrent Laws: Medicare chapter of Sumwalt, LexisNexis Practice Guide North Carolina Workers’ Compensation (2017 Edition).

Daniel was named the Best Lawyers® 2024 Workers’ Compensation Law - Employers “Lawyer of the Year” in Asheville.