Incoming NY Attorney General names leadership team

Incoming New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has chosen six lawyers for key leadership positions in his office. Harlan Levy, a partner at Boies Schiller & Flexner, will serve as first deputy attorney general. Barbara D Underwood, a former federal prosecutor and deputy solicitor general of the US will continue to serve as New York’s solicitor general. Terryl Brown, general counsel for the New York Power Authority and former acting counsel to New York Governor David Paterson, was named counsel to the attorney general. Karla Sanchez, a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, was named executive deputy attorney general for Economic Justice, while Nancy Hoppock, a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and former assistant district attorney in Manhattan, will serve as executive deputy attorney general for Criminal Justice. Janet Sabel, general counsel of the Legal Aid Society in New York, was named executive deputy attorney general for Social Justice.

Incoming NY Attorney General names leadership team blogs.wsj.com Mon, Jan 3, 2011