Daniel Malone

Daniel Malone
Butzel Long
Director, Korean Client Relations & Vice Chair, Asia Practice
Member since 2015

Daniel P. Malone is an attorney (of counsel) with Butzel Long's Bloomfield Hills office and serves as the firm's director of Korean Client Relations and vice chair of its Asia Practice.  Malone has extensive automotive and product safety litigation experience and is a frequent publisher of articles on automotive-related legal issues. He also counsels foreign and domestic automotive suppliers on federal compliance matters, such as recalls and matters that pertain to various Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Malone is a key communicator and frequent author in support of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations, a working party of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe that strives to create, among other things, harmonized safety and environmental regulations for vehicle design.

He has served on numerous not-for-profit boards, including those of the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Boysville of Michigan (now Holy Cross Children's Services). He co-founded The Generation of Promise Program, which provides a unique, year-long experience for high school juniors who have demonstrated leadership potential and gives them exposure to students of different backgrounds throughout metropolitan Detroit. He has held leadership roles with the United Way Childhood Care and Education Allocation Panel, Leadership Detroit Alumni Association and Leadership Oakland. He served as president of the Eastern Michigan Federal Bar Association and as a member of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Conference Committee.

The recipient of numerous awards, Malone has received the State Bar of Michigan's Champion of Justice Award, the Living the Mission Award from Focus: HOPE and was selected as Alumnus of the Year by the University Of Detroit Jesuit High School in 2007.

He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University Of Detroit Mercy School Of Law.