Top NYC attorney joins Department of Correction as general counsel
One of New York City's top litigators, a Harvard and Oxford graduate with decades of government experience, will join the NYC Department of Correction as its general counsel.
Paul Schechtman will join the DOC as deputy commissioner of legal matters, the city's jail system said Tuesday. Schechtman is a former chief of appeals and chief of the criminal division for the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office. He also served as counsel to the Manhattan DA's office and spent two years as the state's director of criminal justice in the Pataki administration. He was chair of the State Ethics Commission and is a member of the New York Sentencing Commission.
Earlier in his career, Schechtman was a clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger, and most recently, he has been in private practice and lecturing at Columbia Law School. City & State ranked him 33rd on their 2022"