Morrison & Foerster LLP
Carrie Cohen is an expert in public corruption and state and local government who made a name for herself by prosecuting former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. At Morrison & Foerster – or MoFo – she has assisted the New York City Council in investigations into the behavior of several members, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a review of overtime practices, and a Rochester City Council probe into the death of Daniel Prude.
54. David Patton
Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief, Federal Defenders of New York
A federal defender for nearly 20 years, David Patton in 2011 became the executive director and attorney-in-chief of the Federal Defenders of New York, a group that provides representation to those in need. During the coronavirus pandemic, Patton has been representing prisoners who are at high risk of catching the disease, telling Slate that the response by “prosecutors and prison officials to COVID-19 has been hard to fathom.”
At an online symposium this week, two former leaders of the Berkshire Museum â Van Shields, its executive director, and Elizabeth McGraw, its board chair â are scheduled to discuss the institution s sale of art in 2018. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
PITTSFIELD â Though Van Shields and Elizabeth McGraw no longer are with the Berkshire Museum, they will reunite this week to explain the museumâs drive to sell its most valuable art a few years back. People who opposed that sale may or may not be heard.
Shields and McGraw will appear Thursday as members of an online panel in a symposium titled âDeaccessioning after 2020,â sponsored by Syracuse Universityâs College of Law and Graduate Program in Museum Studies.
Former state senator H. Douglas Barclay dies at age 88 Photo of H. Douglas Barclay, longtime state senator in northern New York, who died Sunday. (Source: funeral home) By Scott Atkinson | March 15, 2021 at 9:53 PM EDT - Updated March 15 at 9:54 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - One of the north country’s longest serving and most influential politicians has died. Former state senator H. Douglas Barclay died at his home in Pulaski Sunday.
Barclay represented northern New York in the state Senate from 1964 until his retirement in 1984. He was a leading Republican, at a time when Republicans not only dominated north country politics but were influential statewide as well.
One of President Joe Bidenâs early achievements does not get enough attention: He is rolling back the politics of culture wars. This is good news for his electoral and governing projects, but also for our country.
This assertion will invite contradictory dissents. On the one side, culture wars were bound to abate during a pandemic and economic downturn. The other response is: Are you kidding? If culture wars are over, why is Dr. Seuss all over Fox News?
To take the second point first: Sure, cultural conflict will forever be part of American life. Our habits, mores and assumptions are always in flux, especially given the United Statesâ exceptional religious, racial and ethnic diversity â along with our long-running feuds between big cities and the countryside. We battle even when thereâs a surface cultural consensus: Think of the early stirrings of feminism in the 1950s and the furor unleashed by the Beats.