Danielle M. Corcione

A law firm partner, business executive, former federal prosecutor, and former in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 beauty company, Danielle Corcione possesses a rare combination of tenacity, fierce advocacy, and business acumen. Danielle is an experienced federal trial lawyer and strategic advisor. She has represented individual, government, and corporate clients in high-stakes regulatory matters pending before the DOJ, SEC, FDA, and other regulatory bodies. Danielle brings a creative, realistic, multidimensional approach to every matter she handles, whether in the courtroom or the boardroom. Twice elected to CSG Law’s Executive Committee, Danielle contributes to the successful management of the firm.

White Collar Investigations and Enforcement Actions

Danielle helps companies and boards navigate significant and complex white-collar investigations. Danielle is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. She served in the Health Care & Government Fraud Unit where she prosecuted cases involving health care fraud, anti-kickback violations, criminal HIPAA violations, mail fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, commercial bribery, and violations of both the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the False Claims Act. Danielle has extensive health care experience and routinely represents health care companies in internal investigations and civil DOJ qui tam matters. Danielle draws on her time at the DOJ to enable her clients to see around corners and mitigate risk. She is skilled at finding paths forward to resolve matters effectively and expeditiously.

Outside General Counsel

Danielle is a trusted C-suite advisor to organizations on a wide variety of regulatory and compliance concerns. She brings her insight as a former in-house counsel into her practice today, offering incisive advice that blends creativity with perspective, helping clients leverage opportunities and scale with ESG principles top of mind.

A deeply invested champion of women, diversity, and inclusion, Danielle advises founders in the beauty, wellness, fashion, and lifestyle sectors. Danielle also works with emerging women’s health companies focusing on mid-life. She advises on day-to-day issues, growth strategies, and deals, providing strategic business support and compliance advice and helping them build strong, highly competitive businesses.

Academia

Danielle is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law where she teaches “Wellness & Mindfulness,” focusing on the intersection of ambition and wellness to help her students thrive in law school and beyond.

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Honors

• Included in Chambers USA, New Jersey Litigation: White Collar Criminal Defense & Government Investigations (2019-2025)
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America®, Criminal Defense: White Collar (2022-2026); Commercial Litigation (2024-2026)
• Selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers list, Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2023-2026)
• Included in BINJE, Top Women in Business (2026)
• Included in ROI-NJ, Influencers: Women in Business (2022; 2025)
• Included in NJBIZ, Best 50 Women in Business (2020)
• Included in New Jersey Law Journal, New Leaders of the Bar (2019)

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Involvement

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
• U.S. District Court, Lawyers Advisory Committee (2025-2026)
• Sustainability Women in the World (SW2), a collective of women Chief Sustainability Officers, Pro-bono General Counsel; Board Member
• Women’s White Collar Defense Association, Member (2017-present); New Jersey Chapter Leader (2018-2023)
• Fearless Beauty, Inc., Founding Board Member (2014-2020)
• Young Women’s Leadership Network, Corporate Leadership Council (2008-2020)
• New York City Bar Association, Women in the Legal Profession Committee Member (2008-2012)

Education

• New York Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2005)
• University of Massachusetts-Amherst (B.A., cum laude, 2002)

Admissions

• New Jersey
• New York
• U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York