Executive Staff and Division Chiefs

Executive Staff

Muriel Goode-Trufant
Corporation Counsel of the City of New York

Sheryl Neufeld
Acting First Assistant Corporation Counsel

Ashley Iodice
Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel and Chief of Staff

Richard Dearing
Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel and Division Chief for Appeals

Karlyne Fequiere
Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel

Toshia McKnight
Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel

Richard Schulsohn
Acting Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel

Shanel Spence
Acting EEO Officer

Lucian Chalfen
Communications Director

Nicholas Paolucci
Director of Public Affairs and Press Secretary

Kate O’Brien Ahlers
Director of Internal Communications and Strategic Initiatives

June Witterschein
Director of Professional and Organizational Development

John Campbell
Director of Legal Recruitment

Division Chiefs

Support Divisions

Jennie Nagle-Yndigoyen
Administration

Rachel Kaufman
E-Discovery

Ronald Muriel
Information Technology

Jonathan Pinn
Operations

John Hupper
Litigation Support and Information Management

Legal Divisions

Michelle Goldberg-Cahn
Administrative Law and Regulatory Litigation

Gail Rubin
Affirmative Litigation

Richard Dearing
Appeals

Commercial and Real Estate Litigation

Amrita Barth
Contracts and Real Estate

Betty Woo
Economic Development

Hilary Meltzer
Environmental Law

Karen Griffin
Ethics and Compliance

Jennifer Gilroy Ruiz
Family Court

Peter Farrell
General Litigation

Maxwell Leighton
Labor and Employment Law

Spencer Fisher
Legal Counsel

Albert Rodriguez
Municipal Finance

Nancy Savasta
Risk Management

Qiana Smith-Williams
Special Federal Litigation

Rochelle Cohen
Tax and Bankruptcy Litigation

Fay Leoussis
Tort

Paul Zaragoza
Workers' Compensation