Daniel-Paul Alva

About Daniel-Paul

Mr. Alva graduated from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville in 1972. He began his career in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office assigned to the newly formed Narcotics Unit, which followed cases from investigation through trial. He became associated with Stephen Robert LaCheen Esq., in 1974 and thereafter became partner in the firm of LaCheen and Alva. He founded his own firm in 1987 that became Alva & Moscow, LLC, which handles all areas of trial work, concentrating in state, federal, local and national criminal trials. He has tried more than 5,000 cases, the majority in Pennsylvania, but also in eleven (11) other states. He served as Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section in 1998 and 2002. He also served on the Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention for ten years. In 2003, he was elected to a three-year term on the Board on Governors of the Bar Association, serving as Chair in 2006. He was Co-Chair of the Municipal Court Committee in 2008, 2009, and 2010. For the last fifteen (15) years, Mr. Alva has served as an adjunct professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, teaching in the nationally rated number one School of Trial Advocacy. In 2003, Mr. Alva was appointed by Mayor John Street as a member of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee, a position he held until 2007. Recognized as one of the 'Deans' of Criminal Law and selected as a 'Super Lawyer' a majority of years since inception.

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