Prior to joining Arent Fox, Darrell was a partner at two other significant international law firms, serving as the head of the US practice group at one of them. He also headed an employment and labor law boutique for several years in New York City.  He served as a Commissioner with the New York State Civil Service Commission. Also, he was formerly associated with the Metropolitan Hospital Medical Center in New York, as Director of Labor Relations/Labor Counsel and with the National Labor Relations Board, Region 2 in New York, as an attorney.

Darrell previously chaired the Labor Law and Commercial Law sections of the National Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Darrell is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Darrell chaired the task force merging the historical Harlem Lawyers Association and the Bedford Stuyvesant Lawyers Association to form the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, the largest minority bar in New York State.

A well-known leader in professional circles and in the community, Darrell has played a critical role in founding and leading several organizations. He is one of the original founding former board members of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, an organization that advocates the expanded hiring, retention and promotion of minority attorneys in corporate law departments and law firms. He is the immediate past chair and a founding board member of the National Employment Law Council, the leading association of minority management-side employment lawyers.

His appointments include:

• Commissioner, New York State Civil Service Commission
• Member, Governor’s Task Force on Sexual Harassment
• Member, Human Rights Arbitration Committee
• Member, Board of Advisors, New York State Division of Human Rights
• Member, City of New York Manhattan Community Board No. 4

Darrell has appeared on many radio and television talk shows including Court TV, The Phil Donahue Show and Straight Talk, and he is a frequent speaker for the ABA, NBA, NELC, MCCA, PLI and other programs at various law schools on a host of topics related to labor and employment law.

His recognitions include:

• The Best Lawyers in America, Employment Law – Management, 2012 and 2013
• The International Who’s Who of Management Labour & Employment Lawyers 2010, 2011 and 2012
• The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2010, 2011 and 2012
• New York Super Lawyers, 2006, 2007, 2008 (Corporate Edition), 2009-2012
• Lawyer of the Year, Metropolitan Black Bar Association 2005
• Who’s Who in American Law, 2005-2006 and 2010-2011
• Who’s Who in Black New York City
• Leadership New York
• “Forty Under Forty,” Crain’s New York, 1990