NYCDS - Key Persons
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- Senior Trial Attorney, Homicide / Major Crime Defense Unit
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- Supervising Attorney, Policy Team
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- Criminal Court Supervisor
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- Fasulo Giordano & Di Maggio
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- Senior Trial Attorney, Diversion Specialist
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- Supervising Attorney, Collateral Consequences Unit
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- Supervising Attorney, Trial Division
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- Director
- Founding Member
- Member of the Leadership Team
Carolyn Wilson has been a public defender for her entire career. Upon graduation from Brooklyn Law School in 1980 she joined the staff of the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society. She remained at Legal Aid for seventeen years working first as a staff attorney in Queens County and later as a supervising attorney both in Queens and Brooklyn.
In 1996 she wrote a proposal to form New York County Defender Services in response to an RFP issued by the City of New York. NYCDS came into existence on July 1, 1997, and began taking cases in September of that year. Ms. Wilson has served as its director from the beginning.
Ms. Wilson has been a long-term member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the New York City Bar Association.
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- Trial Attorney, Civil Division
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- Criminal Court Supervisor
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- Director of Data Research & Policy
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- Investigator, Homicide Unit
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- Director of Human Resources
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- Attorney, Immigration Unit
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- Senior Trial Attorney, Youth Advocacy Unit
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- Supervising Attorney, Trial Division
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- Senior Trial Attorney, Homicide / Major Crime Defense Unit
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- Forensic Social Worker, Re - Entry Unit / Administration
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- Administrative Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Senior Trial Attorney, Homicide / Major Crime Defense Unit
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- Supervising Attorney, Trial Division
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- Forensic Social Worker, Re - Entry Unit
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- Paralegal, Homicide / Major Crime Defense Unit
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- Legal Director ( Retired )
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- Senior Forensic Social Worker, Re - Entry Unit
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- Supervising Forensic Social Worker, Re - Entry Unit
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- Supervising Attorney, Trial Division
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- Trial Attorney, Youth Advocacy Unit
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- Attorney, Immigration Unit
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- Senior Network Administrator
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- Attorney, Immigration Unit
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- Forensic Social Worker, Youth Advocacy Unit
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- Senior Policy Social Worker
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- Special Litigation Attorney
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- Forensic Social Worker, Youth Advocacy Unit
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Co - Chair of the Defense Function Committee for the American Bar Association and Chairperson of the American Council of Chief Defenders
Stan Germán has spent his entire career as a criminal defense attorney. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1995. Upon graduation, Mr. Germán went to work as a staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society of New York City in Kings County. Thereafter, he worked as a staff attorney at New York County Defender Services. In 2002, he went into private practice where he litigated criminal cases before the United States District Courts in New York, Washington D.C. and Florida. In 2015, Mr. Germán left private practice and returned to New York County Defender Services to serve as Executive Director.
Mr. Germán currently serves as co-chair of the Defense Function Committee for the American Bar Association and chairperson of the American Council of Chief Defenders. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Chief Defenders Association of New York, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and New York County Defender Services. He is a lifetime member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of the New York City Bar Association. Mr. Germán has been honored as one of the Top 100 Lawyers for Criminal Defense by The National Trial Lawyers.
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- Supervising Attorney, Trial Division
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- Senior Trial Attorney, Integrated Domestic Violence Specialist
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- Forensic Social Worker, Homicide / Major Crime Defense Unit
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- Director of Administration