Seasoned litigator Randy Mastro wants to be the city’s next top lawyer, but in order to get the job, he must win over a mostly progressive City Council that has so far not shown an appetite to approve him.
While Mastro was only formally nominated to be the city’s next corporation counsel by Mayor Eric Adams late last month, following the resignation of the post’s previous occupant Sylvia Hinds-Radix, rumors began circulating in April that City Hall was eyeing him for the job. The corporation counsel serves as the city’s chief lawyer, leading the Law Department and representing the mayor and the City Council when the city is sued or wants to take legal action against outside entities.
