Executive Staff and Division Chiefs

Executive Staff

Steven Banks
Corporation Counsel of the City of New York 

Sheryl Neufeld
First Assistant Corporation Counsel 

Ashley Iodice
Chief of Staff

Betty Matondo-John
Deputy Chief of Staff

Eric Eichenholtz
Managing Attorney 

Karlyne Fequiere
Chief of Litigation

Richard Schulsohn
Chief of Commercial Law (including Commercial Litigation) 

Richard Dearing
Chief of Appeals 

Cecillia Shepard
Chief of Talent and Development 

Shanel Spence 
Chief Diversity and EEO Officer 

Molly Murphy 
Chief of Legal Counsel 

Toshia McKnight
Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel  

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

Amanda Papandrea
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

Molly Murphy
Legal Counsel

Michael L. Moore
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