Daniel Greenfield

P&A Agent

Dan Greenfield is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Prison Law Office based in Berkeley, California. Daniel is an agent of Disability Rights Oregon, the State Protection and Advocacy System.

Previously, Daniel was Supreme Court and Appellate Counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center, where he litigated jail and prison conditions cases, with a focus on solitary confinement and other inhumane practices. Before joining the MacArthur Justice Center, Daniel was both pro bono counsel and a litigation associate at Sidley Austin, completed a fellowship at the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Diane E. Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Daniel also teaches at UCLA School of Law, where he helps to run the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic, and previously co-taught the MacArthur Justice Center’s appellate litigation clinic at Northwestern University School of Law. He received a J.D. cum laude from Northwestern in 2008. He also has an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.S. from Northwestern. Daniel is admitted to the bars of Washington, D.C. and Illinois and is registered by the State Bar of California as a Registered Legal Aid Attorney.