Darin Dalmat joined James & Hoffman as an Associate in 2008. Since joining James & Hoffman, Mr. Dalmat has litigated successfully in federal and state court and before administrative agencies on behalf of workers and unions, focusing on their rights to organize and bargain, to the full value of their pensions, to fair wages, to workplaces free of discrimination, and to whistleblower protection. Recently, he has won significant victories in cases where restaurant workers sought overtime wages; an employee faced harassment because of his perceived sexual orientation; a whistleblowing pilot faced retaliation for criticizing his employer’s sick leave policies and refusing to fly sick; and an employee worked around the clock for inadequate wages. He has also helped defend unions under attack for organizing.
Mr. Dalmat is a member of the Bars of New York and of the District of Columbia and has also been admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth, Seventh, and Eleventh Circuits.
Prior to joining the firm, he worked in the legal department of the Service Employees International Union on behalf of janitors, security guards, and health care workers. Mr. Dalmat received his JD from Columbia Law School in 2006, where he was both a James Kent and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. While in law school, Mr. Dalmat represented prisoners who won parole and reduced sentences with Morningside Heights Legal Services; helped successfully defend a citywide minimum wage law in Santa Fe, New Mexico with the Brennan Center for Justice; contributed to litigation under the Voting Rights Act with the ACLU Voting Rights Project; and contributed to reports to Congress on the state of voting rights in Louisiana with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He also served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, which published his article, Bringing Economic Justice Closer to Home: The Legal Viability of Local Minimum Wage Laws Under Home Rule, 39 Colum. J. L. & Soc. Probs. 93 (2005). In 2001, Mr. Dalmat graduated magna cum laude from Yale University.
dmdalmat@jamhoff.com
