Daniel R. Alonso
Daniel R. Alonso is a partner in the Litigation Department of Kaye Scholer LLP. Before joining Kaye Scholer LLP, Mr. Alonso was Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he supervised approximately 110 federal prosecutors in the investigation and prosecution of a vast array of crimes, and personally handled many significant matters involving public corruption and fraud. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Alonso served as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, where he handled white-collar criminal cases while assigned to the Frauds Bureau and the Special Prosecutions Bureau. He has also served as a law clerk to Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa of the New York Court of Appeals. Mr. Alonso is a four-time winner of the Justice Department's Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and is a recipient of the Henry L. Stimson Medal, awarded by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York to outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys.
He currently serves as the Chair of the Council on Criminal Justice of the New York City Bar Association, as a Director of the Fund for Modern Courts, and as a member of the Advisory Group to the New York State-Federal Judicial Conference.
Mr. Alonso received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law.