Q&A
Responsibilities and expectations of the Corporation Counsel
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Council Member Adams outlines the critical responsibilities of the Corporation Counsel, emphasizing the need to prioritize the city's long-term interests and provide transparent advice to elected officials.
- The Corporation Counsel must explain potential negative consequences of actions to elected officials
- They must prioritize the city's long-term institutional interests over short-term legal battles
- The role requires reporting internal wrongdoing and screening legal claims made against the city
Adrienne E. Adams
0:58:19
The corporation counsel must carefully and transparently explain to elected officials the potential negative long term consequences to the city.
0:58:29
Or their respective governmental entity of making a particular argument or taking a particular action.
0:58:36
To fulfill their duty, the corporation counsel must prioritize the long term institutional interest of the city advise against organizational wrongdoing, report internal wrongdoing to appropriate authorities, and screen claims and legal arguments made against and for the city.
0:58:55
They fail in their duties when they do not adequately advise city officials and agencies on how a short term legal battle might affect the city's long term interest.
0:59:04
Similarly, it would be a failure to decline to report and appropriately act in response to organizational wrongdoing of course, this form of legal representation is in stark contrast to the type practiced in the private sector, where aggressively Zealous representation of individual interests is expected.
0:59:27
Once again, given your history of loyal service to Mister Giuliani in your public service career and your career in the private sector aggressively representing individual private interests that often conflicted with the city's long term institutional interest.
0:59:44
How can this counsel entrust you entrust in you the long term institutional interest of the city.
