Daniel G. Giaquinto is a Senior Counsel with Kern Augustine Conroy & Schoppmann, P.C., where he heads the firm’s criminal law section. He focuses his practice on the defense of healthcare professionals in criminal and administrative disciplinary matters. He is also qualified in New Jersey as a R. 1:40 mediator, and provides Alternative Dispute Resolution Services on behalf of Kern Augustine.
Before joining Kern Augustine, Mr. Giaquinto was an Assistant Attorney General/Director of State Police Affairs for the New Jersey Attorney General where he successfully led the State’s efforts to implement State Police reforms required by the federal consent decree to address issues of racial profiling. Prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, he served a five year term as the Prosecutor of Mercer County, New Jersey, where, as the chief law enforcement officer of Mercer County, he led an office of over 150 assistant prosecutors, detectives, agents and administrative support personnel. He has also served in the past as a Municipal Court Judge for the City of Trenton and the Township of Hopewell, and as a Deputy Attorney General in the Major Fraud Section of the Division of Criminal Justice. A member of the US Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, he served a four year active duty tour in Germany where he was assigned as defense counsel and later as a trial counsel (prosecutor) to military courts-martial and administrative boards. Subsequent to active duty he continued his military career with the New Jersey Army National Guard, where he currently serves in the rank of Colonel as the Staff Judge Advocate. He deployed from June 2008 until June 2009 as the Command Judge Advocate, 50th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Mr. Giaquinto received his Juris Doctor with Honors from the Rutgers School of Law at Camden and his Bachelor of Science with Honors from The College of New Jersey. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Officer Basic Course, the US Army Judge Advocate Officer Advanced Course, and an honor graduate of both the US Army Military Judges Course and the US Army Command and General Staff College.
Mr. Giaquinto is a member of the American Bar Association, and is a member of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section and its White Collar Crime Committee, and the Health Law Section and its Healthcare Fraud and Compliance Interest Group. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and is a past chair and current member of the Military Law and Veterans’ Affairs Section, as well as a member of the Criminal Law Section and Health and Hospital Law Section of the NJSBA. He is also a member of the Mercer County Bar Association.