After more than 15 years with the U.S. Justice Department, Daniel Grooms is entering the private sector as a white-collar partner at Cooley in Washington, D.C.

Grooms was most recently assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where he was chief of the criminal division from 2016 to 2018. During his tenure at EDVA, Grooms also oversaw the national security and international crime unit and the narcotics unit. And he  spent some time on loan to Main Justice as an associate deputy attorney general, working hand in hand with former deputy attorneys general Jim Cole and Sally Yates.