Daniel Greenfield
Senior Staff Attorney

Daniel joined PLO in 2024 as a Senior Staff Attorney. Prior to joining PLO, 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. Daniel previously taught at both UCLA School of Law, where he was co-director of the Prisoners’ Rights Clinic, and Northwestern University School of Law, where he co-taught the MacArthur Justice Center’s appellate litigation clinic. Before joining the MacArthur Justice Center, Daniel was pro bono counsel 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. He received a J.D. from Northwestern in 2008. He also holds 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.