Daniella A. Schmidt

Daniella advises clients on tax controversies, including complex IRS audits and administrative appeals, with a developing focus on investment tax credits and clean energy credits. Her experience also includes a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, white-collar investigations, and regulatory defense matters for high-profile clients across a variety of industries. She has advised on employment discrimination, securities fraud, antitrust, contract disputes, first amendment, and complex commercial transactions. Daniella currently represents an over five-thousand-member plaintiff class in the remedial phase of a Title VII class action litigation. Daniella is routinely called upon to prepare for all manner of litigation including depositions, testimony, and trial. She has a proven track record of translating for the court what her clients need and want.

In addition to her work at Crowell, Daniella is a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches legal writing and research to 1L law students.

Daniella is dedicated to public service and pro bono work. She served as a senior attorney at the Brooklyn Defender Services, litigating on behalf of hundreds of parents against unreasonable state intervention. Daniella handled all stages of litigation, from inception through hearings, trials, and appeals and routinely obtained successful outcomes, both at trial and outside of court, on behalf of her clients. Her pro bono practice focuses on constitutional claims including violations of the fourth amendment, LGBTQ rights, gun violence, human rights, workers’ rights and women’s rights, immigration and asylum hearings, and family defense work.

Daniella served a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Victor Marrero, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 2015 to 2016.