Daniel P. Lynch

Daniel P. Lynch is the Founder of The Lynch Law Group and has served as the Firm’s Managing Partner for over 20 years. In addition to leading The Lynch Law Group, Dan has been a practicing attorney for over 30 years and counsels individual clients as well as businesses of varying complexities, including: small businesses, family owned businesses, and a range of middle-market companies and large corporations. Dan’s professional strength and experience include general corporate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business succession planning, commercial litigation, employment law counseling and litigation, and securities litigation. Being an entrepreneur himself, Dan is able to understand the unique issues businesses face, and provides innovative, yet practical, solutions to solve their most pressing challenges.

Dan is well-known throughout the greater Pittsburgh business community as a success-driven leader with superior organization and communication skills, with an entrepreneurial approach to his practice of law. For Dan, overpreparation is the key to building a successful law career, in tandem with embracing his practice as a way of life. Principled personally and professionally, Dan builds longstanding relationships by living by his word and following through on his promises. He has been recognized for his exceptional service and professional achievement by Best Lawyers in America (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025).

Dan began his career with a six-year tenure at Reed Smith after completing a one-year clerkship for the Honorable James H. Brickley, Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, and a one-year clerkship for the Honorable Carol Los Mansmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He served as CEO of a start-up software company and vice president and general counsel of a middle-market logistics company before founding his own law firm in 2002.  

In addition to his practice of law, Dan is a frequent speaker on the topic of business development for attorneys and professional service providers. He has presented to several Pittsburgh-area organizations, as well as state and county bar associations including the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Washington County Bar Association, and the Lancaster Bar Association. His book, Building a Million Dollar Book of Business, Principles and Behaviors For a Successful Law Practice, has been endorsed by business leaders throughout the region as a must-read, practical guide for any professional seeking to grow business through developing and nurturing relationships.

Dan is actively involved in the business and legal community and has held leadership positions with the Butler County Bar Association (BCBA) and its charitable affiliate, the BCBA Foundation, serving as president of both organizations (2020) and as vice president of the BCBA (2019). He served as a board member of the Pennsylvania Venture Capital Association (2016-2018) and the Fort McIntosh Club (2013-2015), and he served on the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as a member of the Hearing Committee (three-year term 2019-2022) and he served as a mentor for the Carnegie Mellon University Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. In 2025, Dan was honored recently as a Distinguished Alumni by St. Vincent College whereby he delivered the Spring 2024 Honors Convocation address. In 2025, Dan was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by Vistage, the world’s largest CEO coaching and peer advisory organization for small and midsize businesses.

Dan and his wife, Susan, reside in Naples, Florida. Together, they have four children, a son and three daughters. Their son follows in Dan’s footsteps, pursuing a law degree from Duquesne University. Their second oldest recently graduated with a master’s degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina. Their two younger daughters are pursuing undergraduate degrees at Duquesne University and Washington and Lee University in Virginia. As their children enter adulthood, Dan and his wife embrace being empty nesters and enjoy traveling and visiting Big Sky, Montana. In his spare time, Dan enjoys physical pursuits such as fishing, hiking, golfing, skiing, and horseback riding.