Dan McGrath

Senior Oversight Counsel

Dan McGrath is Senior Oversight Counsel at Democracy Forward.

Dan most recently served as a senior counsel in the Office of the Solicitor in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL).  Dan coordinated DOL’s responses to congressional oversight requests and subpoenas, and served as front office counsel for several program and issue areas, including unemployment insurance, recent administrative law decisions, and immigration-related matters. Prior to DOL, he served as a counsel on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis led by Rep. Jim Clyburn. Dan led oversight investigations of economic programs implemented to address the pandemic’s fallout and private sector actors’ conduct during the crisis. He earlier served as lead counsel for federal investigations at American Oversight, where he litigated public records cases to advance investigations of government malfeasance.  

Dan started his legal career as a litigation associate at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and previously taught high school social studies at St. Francis Indian School on Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He received his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University.