Professor Daniel J. Morrissey holds both a bachelor’s (Phi Beta Kappa) and a law degree from Georgetown University. After law school he served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge in Chicago. He then worked as an attorney in the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.

After a period of private practice in Los Angeles, he became a law professor at the University of Tulsa, where he earned the rank of tenured, full professor. He has also served as a visiting professor of law at Pepperdine University, the University of Denver, and Seton Hall University, and as an adjunct professor at Loyola of Los Angeles.

In 1994 he was appointed dean at St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami, and served in that capacity until 1999. In 2001 he was appointed Dean of Gonzaga School of Law and served in that capacity until 2004.  He remained on the Gonzaga faculty until spring 2026 when he became an emeritus professor there.   Professor Morrissey has published a number of articles in the areas of corporate securities law and jurisprudence.  He has also served as an expert witness in a number of matters involving corporate law and has argued cases before the Minnesota and Washington State Supreme Courts and other appellate courts.