About Daniel Santos

Daniel A. Santos is an associate at Regan Zambri Long, joining the firm in September 2024 after completing a one-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable Rachel T. McGuckian of the Montgomery County Circuit Court. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law in May 2023, where he served as an Associate Editor for the University of Baltimore Law Forum and as a student representative for the Maryland State Bar Association Young Lawyers Section. During law school, Daniel clerked for the Honorable Joseph M. Getty at the Court of Appeals of Maryland and worked as a Summer Law Clerk at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General on cases involving child welfare.

Before law school, Daniel worked as a Case Administrator at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He completed his B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018. Fluent in Spanish, Daniel is licensed in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to Regan Zambri Long Personal Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$6.17 millionVerdictTop 10 of 1998 · #8

Thomas Hoar suffered disabling brain damage on January 19, 1992, when he slid off the edge of the Diamond Jim ski trail at Massanutten Ski Resort and fell about thirty feet. A jury found the resort negligent for failing to warn skiers of the hidden drop-off and returned $6,170,563 for his wife and guardian. The trial judge set the verdict aside, but the Supreme Court of Virginia reinstated it on November 6, 1998 and entered final judgment for the plaintiff.

Supreme Court of Virginia (appeal from the Circuit Court of Albemarle County) · 1998Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

In 2012 a McKesson Corporation employee rear-ended Roger Tovar's stopped car, leaving the information technology security professional with a traumatic brain injury that ended his career. A D.C. Superior Court jury awarded $500,000 for bodily injury and $3,297,573 in lost wages in June 2018. McKesson appealed and then settled for the full jury award.

Superior Court of the District of Columbia · 2018Car AccidentsRead the full story →
$1.6 millionVerdict

Carol W. Scott, then 79, broke her femur on September 23, 2019 when an Orange Line train jerked forward after announcing that its doors were opening at McPherson Square. A federal jury in Washington found the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority negligent after a three-day trial in April 2025 and awarded $1.6 million. The judge refused to disturb the verdict, and the transit authority's appeal was dismissed by stipulation.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
Settlement

Patrick Regan co-represented widow Kathy Wone in a $20 million wrongful death suit against three defendants acquitted of obstruction charges in the 2006 murder of Washington attorney Robert Wone, reaching a confidential settlement in August 2011.

DC Superior Court · 2011Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
Settlement

Regan Zambri Long PLLC, co-counsel with two other Washington firms, secured a confidential settlement in November 2019 for more than 70 victims of the August 2016 natural gas explosion that destroyed two Silver Spring apartment buildings, killed seven residents, and sent dozens more to the hospital.

Montgomery County Circuit Court, Maryland · 2019Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

University of Baltimore School of Law
J.D., 2023
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Undergraduate, 2018

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Washington
State Bar of Maryland
State Bar of Virginia

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.