Daniel R. Suvor

After working at the Obama White House and for then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Suvor helped launch O'Melveny & Myers' state attorneys general investigations and litigation group, which he co-chairs. His broad practice encompasses products liability, healthcare, environmental, technology, financial services and white collar matters that potentially involve government agencies.

"I haven't been in the office since March," Suvor said in late July--but he's not complaining. "My normal practice involves a lot of travel. I spent 100 nights away from home last year. So, with the usual caveats, it's been working out for me to work from home. My productivity has increased, because I can meet remotely with the attorney general of North Carolina in the morning and then with the attorney general of New York in the afternoon from my home in L.A."

The legal profession was already trending toward remote work, he added. "Veteran partners tell me they were in the office all the time 20 years ago. Some of the changes forced by the virus will be permanent. When firms look to renew their office leases, they will be taking this increased flexibility into account."

Suvor met Harris at the White House, where he was serving as senior director of the Office of Cabinet Affairs; she poached him from the administration to become her chief of policy and senior counsel at the California Department of Justice. Earlier, he focused on health care issues as special assistant to the general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

"During law school my dad got sick, and mom and I became his health care advocates," Suvor said. "So I worked on the Obama campaign and in the administration to promote the Affordable Care Act. It was a fantastic experience for me."

In his current role, Suvor advises clients caught in the crosshairs of state governments' regulatory authority. For San Francisco-based LendingClub Corp., a peer-to-peer online loan platform, he negotiated a favorable settlement with the attorney general of Massachusetts over questions regarding possible violations of the state's Small Loan Statue. In re: LendingClub Corp Securities Litigation, 3:16-cv-02627 (N.D. Cal., filed may 16, 2016).

He performed similar services for Omaze Inc., a for-profit online charity platform accused by the California attorney general of conducting an illegal lottery, and for Bird Rides Inc., a Santa Monica scooter-sharing service charged with permit and licenses lapses.

"My tech clients are often being regulated by laws written years ago," Suvor said. "We help governments think through how they have not caught up to entrepreneurship, and how letting new industries grow is important."

In other work, Suvor was on the O'Melveny team representing 109 cities and counties in an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the DACA program. "It's important to fight back against unlawful acts by the Trump administration," he said.

-- John Roemer