ALAN ROSENTHAL
Alan Rosenthal is a criminal defense and civil rights attorney with over 50 years of experience. A graduate of Syracuse University College of Law, he has litigated cases involving serious felonies, police misconduct and violations of civil rights in both jails and prisons. For seven years he served as the Director of Justice Strategies, the research, training and policy initiative of the Center for Community Alternatives (CCA). He is currently in private practice providing consulting services to defense attorneys throughout New York State on sentencing, SORA, and DVSJA. For more than 25 years he has served as a consultant on sentencing issues to attorneys across New York State. He was a member of the Board of Directors for the Onondaga County Bar Association Assigned Counsel Program for many years. He has presented to lawyers at CLE programs for the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Bar Association, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Judicial Institute, the New York State Defenders Association, and many County Bar Associations, and Public Defender offices. His CLE programs have included such topics as sentencing, sentencing advocacy, mitigation, SORA, representing adolescents, and the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act. Mr. Rosenthal has also written many practice articles on sentencing in New York, DVSJA, and practice manuals on SORA and representing adolescents.
Mr. Rosenthal has served on the New York State Bar Association Special Committee on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions and the Special Committee on Reentry. In March 2006 he was honored with the Outstanding Service to the Criminal Bar Award by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and in 2014 he was the recipient of the Wilfred R. O’Connor Award presented by the New York State Defenders Association. Most recently, Mr. Rosenthal was the recipient of the New York State Bar Association 2022 Award for Outstanding Achievements in Promoting Standards of Excellence in Mandated Representation, and in 2024 he was the recipient of the Onondaga County Bar Association Distinguished Lawyer Award.
He can be reached at arosent723@aol.com or (315) 559-2240.