As both general counsel and a trial attorney, Daniel P. Dalton concentrates his practice in representing financial institutions as general counsel and regulatory counsel, church law, land use and zoning, business formation and litigation, and employment law.  Not only does he litigate religious land use, and other land use and zoning matters, throughout the United States, he actively lectures and writes on issues related to the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).

Mr. Dalton received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Michigan University in 1986, his law degree from the University of Detroit, School of Law in 1990.  Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Dalton clerked for Chief Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley of the Michigan Supreme Court.  He was admitted to practice in the State of Michigan in 1990; the Federal District Court and Eastern District of Michigan in 1992; the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1994, and the United States Supreme Court in 1995.  He is also admitted in the federal courts located in the Western District of Michigan, the Western District of Texas, the Central District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Daniel Dalton was selected as one of twenty-five Michigan Lawyers Weekly, 2010 Leaders of the Law.  He is rated AV, the highest ethical and skill rating available from Martindale-Hubbell and rated 10.0, superb by AVVO, the highest skill and ethical rating available.  He was selected as a Michigan Super Lawyer for Land Use and Zoning in 2009; one of dBusiness Magazine's Top Lawyers of 2009; one of Hour Detroit's Top Lawyers in 2010; and was named a Corporation Counsel Super Lawyer in 2010.

He is a founding member of Tomkiw Dalton, plc., an appointed Arbitrator of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") and actively serves on several boards and committees, including the Society of Nonprofit Organizations, the MORE Program and Cabrini Clinic.

Currently, Mr. Dalton is on the Council for the American Bar Association's State and Local Government Law Section, Co-Chair of the Religious Land Use Committee and the Vice Chair of the Land Use Committee.  He is active in the ABA Banking Committee and is a life member of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the American and Michigan Planning Associations.

Mr. Dalton lives in Plymouth with his wife Peggy and daughters, Abby and Amy.