About Daniel M.
Daniel M. Woods earned his J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2009. His legal studies followed an early engagement with public policy; he interned at the Utah State Legislature in 2006 while still a law student. The law school years included multiple court placements that exposed him to both trial and federal practice.
Early in his career Woods served as an extern for the Third District Court of Utah in 2007 and for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah in 2008. After graduating he clerked in 2009 for the Honorable Dale A. Kimball of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah. Those postings put him inside courtroom procedures and federal litigation practice at a formative stage.
Woods moved into government service in 2011 when he accepted the role of Assistant Lawyer General in American Samoa. The position required adapting general counsel skills to an island territory’s legal and administrative landscape. The next year he took on an international training role, serving as an instructor in 2012 for an oral advocacy program run by the Conference of Western Lawyer Generals Alliance Partnership for Mexican lawyers. That work combined courtroom technique and teaching.
He stayed involved in professional networks. In 2018 he served as Young Professionals Chair on the executive committee of the BYU Management Society, Utah Valley Chapter. The role placed him alongside local business leaders and other attorneys working on programming and outreach for younger professionals.
Woods’s background contains a steady thread of courtroom exposure, government-side practice and training roles. His formative years in clerkships and externships gave him direct exposure to judges, prosecutors and civil litigators. His government work broadened that experience by placing him in advisory and supervisory positions.
Today he operates out of Woods Law, PLLC. He represents clients in matters that draw on his federal clerkship and government-law experience. His practice centers on civil litigation, appellate matters and representation of government-related clients.
