Danielle Roman is McCarter’s Pro Bono Fellow. In this role, she supports the firm’s commitment to serving those in need, ensuring access to justice, and advocating for systemic reform. Danielle primarily focuses on criminal record clearing, such as pardons and expungements, and humanitarian immigration, representing unaccompanied minors and asylum seekers and challenging a variety of immigration action. She also assists in other areas of urgent unmet civil legal need.
Danielle’s experience most recently includes serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Zahid N. Quraishi of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. In addition, Danielle previously clerked for the Hon. Lee A. Solomon of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and for the Hon. Carmen A. Messano, Chief Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
During law school, Danielle was a member of the Rutgers Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic, where she provided legal representation to youth incarcerated in New Jersey’s juvenile justice system and adults convicted of serious crimes as adolescents who sought post-conviction relief. She also worked at Essex-Newark Legal Services as a legal intern assisting with eviction defense during the Covid-19 pandemic.