Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Products Liability, Wrongful Death, Traumatic Brain Injuries

Daniel H. Pfeifer is a founding partner of the Pfeifer, Morgan & Stesiak law firm and focuses his practice in the area of personal injury law.

Having graduated from The University of Notre Dame in 1979 and earning admission to practice law that same year, Mr. Pfeifer has achieved a significant level of success during his 30+ year career, including admission into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum – an association where less than 1% of U.S trial lawyers are members. From 2007 to 2011, and then from 2015 to 2026, Mr. Pfeifer has been selected to the Super Lawyers® list. In 2016, Mr. Pfeifer was named one of the “10 Best” attorneys in Client Satisfaction in Indiana by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys and in 2020 he was named Indiana Trial Lawyer of the Year. Mr. Pfeifer is a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society. Mr. Pfeifer became president of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association in 2022. Best Lawyers® named Mr. Pfeifer the 2025 “Lawyer of the Year” for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs in South Bend. 

Mr. Pfeifer is also the Chancellor for the Northern Diocese of Indiana Episcopal Church, the Assistant Treasurer at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church and a Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation.

Court Admissions & Memberships

• United States Supreme Court
• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
• United States for the District of Arizona
• Indiana Supreme Court
• College of Master Advocates and Barristers
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• American Bar Association
• 2020 Indiana Trial Lawyer of the Year
• Indiana State Bar Association
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America (President’s Club)
• Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors)
• Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (2022 President)
• St. Joseph County Bar Association
• Board Certification National Board of Trial Advocacy
• American College of Barristers
• Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, The Trial Lawyer Honorary Society
• Trial Law Institute
• Diversity Law Institute
• Barrister, Order of Centurions

Education History

• Taylor University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1975)
• University of Notre Dame (J.D., Cum Laude 1979)
• Associate Editor, Notre Dame Legislative Journal

Civil Activities

• Fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation
• Recipient of the Sagamore of the Wabash
• Chancellor for the Northern Diocese of Indiana Episcopal Church
• Treasurer for the Northern Diocese of Indiana Episcopal Church
• Assistant Treasurer St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
• Board of Directors and Past Chairman Real Services
• Advisory Board Center for the Homeless
• Treasurer, Southold Dance Theater, Inc.