Daniel R. Guadalupe
Partner
Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus
Daniel R. Guadalupe is a co-founder of PRIMER and a partner at the growing regional law firm of Norris, McLaughlin & Marcus, a 110-lawyer commercial firm with offices in New Jersey and New York City. He has practiced law for 21 years and is a graduate of Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Dan represents clients in commercial litigation (business disputes) with a specialty in construction law, professional liability, arbitrations, will and trust litigation and international disputes. Dan is also a member of the exclusive roster of construction/commercial arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He also has served as an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitrator, and as Adjunct Seton Hall Law School Professor.
Dan has been counsel to Lloyd’s of London, Swiss conglomerate ABB, French power company Alstom, National Starch and Chemical Company, the Housing Authority of the City of Newark, and is the main outside counsel for Swiss medical equipment manufacturer, Schiller A.G. and Schiller America. He is also outside counsel for one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the U.S., Tropical Cheese. Dan also defended car maker John Z. DeLorean and represented an NBC Sports executive. At the beginning of his career, he wrote the winning trial and appellate briefs for former New Jersey Governor Tom Kean in an election dispute and received a letter commendation from the Governor after the Governor’s position was upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Dan was President of the Hispanic Bar Association of NJ in 1991 (an association of 1,000 Hispanic lawyers), and the General Counsel of the Hispanic National Bar Association (a national association of 5,000 Hispanic lawyers). He has served as a member of the Selection Committee which helped select two federal Magistrates; member of the prestigious Lawyers Advisory Group to the Federal Courts of New Jersey; member of the Board of Editors of the legal publication New Jersey Lawyer; been a legal commentator on prime time, national television for MSNBC during the 2000 election coverage and a special legal commentator for Channel 47, Telemundo in New York City.
In 2004, Dan was reported to be on the "short list" for appointment as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. In 2006 and 2007, Dan was recognized as a “Superlawyer” in the Business Litigation section of New Jersey Super Lawyers 2006 and 2007. New Jersey Super Lawyers are selected based on a peer-review survey mailed to more than 35,000 attorneys throughout the state, a blue-ribbon panel review process and independent research on each candidate. Only five percent of New Jersey attorneys are given this honor.
Dan is also Executive Vice-President of Glassroots, a non-profit organization which teaches the art of glassmaking and entrepreneurial skills to at-risk children in Newark, New Jersey.
He resides with his wife and 3 children in the Princeton area.
