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Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr.
Fritz Schwarz is a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and senior counsel at New York University Law School's Brenner Center for Justice. In a distinguished legal career spanning four decades, Fritz Schwartz has combined private practice with a series of critically important public service assignments. He served as Chief Counsel to the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activity (1975-1976), an inquiry that uncovered decades of abuse by the CIA and other intelligence agencies; as Corporation Counsel under New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch (1982-1986), and as Chair of the Commission that revised New York City's Charter (1989).
In addition to currently serving as Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, Fritz Schwarz chairs the New York City Campaign Finance Board, the Board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Board of the Vera Institute of Justice. In 2004 The American Lawyer magazine honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. He received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1960, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. After a year's clerkship with Judge J. Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he worked one year for the Nigerian government as Assistant Commissioner for Law Revision under a Ford Foundation grant.
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