Victor Olds, Esq.

Mr. Olds is the managing director and general counsel of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services Corporation. Previously, Mr. Olds practiced for several years as a litigation partner at Holland & Knight LLP, after which he worked for four years as a vice president and senior attorney in the Law Division of Morgan Stanley. From 1980 to 1988 he was the assistant attorney general in charge at the New York State Department of Law's Harlem Regional Office, and from 1988 to 2000 Mr. Olds was an assistant United States attorney in both the criminal and civil divisions of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. A trial advocacy instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and currently an adjunct professor at both Brooklyn Law School and Fordham University School of Law, Mr. Olds has also been an appellate advocacy instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice Advocacy Institute. He has served on the Second Circuit Task Force for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness, was a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Law Fellow, and currently serves on the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division's (First Department) Indigent Defense Organization Oversight Committee. Mr. Olds has been a mayoral designee since June 2002.

J.D., 1977, Brooklyn Law School; B.A., 1973, New York University

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