DANIEL P. STEELE

Phone: (248) 312-2917
Email: dsteele@VGpcLAW.com

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DANIEL P. STEELE specializes in personal injury, employment, and commercial litigation.  He has served as lead trial counsel on cases in the following areas: motor vehicle accidents, air carrier liability, product liability, construction accidents, premises liability, employment discrimination, and wrongful termination.

He has tried cases to verdict in all of the state circuit and federal district courts in the Detroit metropolitan area as well as a number or other courts throughout the State of Michigan.  He has argued before the Michigan Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals.

Dan received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Michigan State University and his law degree from Wayne State University.   He first came to Vandeveer Garzia as a law clerk in 1981 and in 1995 became the youngest member ever to serve on the firm’s management committee.  He has served on the firm’s Board of Directors since 1994.

He is the author of the Pretrial Discovery Chapter of the Michigan Basic Practice Handbook and has lectured for the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education.  He recently completed two terms on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel and has received the organization’s Distinguished Service Award.  He also serves as a mediator for the Wayne County Mediation Tribunal Association. 

Dan holds the highest rating recognized by Martindale Hubbell and has been selected as a Michigan Super Lawyer for the last three years.