Zachary Carter, appointed as corporation counsel by Mayor Bill de Blasio, will take office by Feb. 1. Jeffrey Friedlander is acting corporation counsel in the interim.
Since 1995, Friedlander has been first assistant corporation counsel, which is the second-in-command post at the agency. He has been working in the Law Department since 1970. He also served as acting corporation counsel from November 1997 to March 1998 under then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He is a Law Journal columnist, writing on Municipal Law.
