Senior Staff

Select a staff member from this list: Chief Deputy Attorney General & Counsel to the Attorney General Executive Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice Executive Deputy Attorney General of State Counsel Solicitor General

Harlan Levy

Chief Deputy Attorney General & Counsel to the Attorney General

Harlan Levy serves as Chief Deputy Attorney General and Counsel to the Attorney General. Mr. Levy was previously a litigation partner at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP from 2000-2010, where his practice focused on complex civil, criminal, and corporate litigation. He served as an Assistant District Attorney and homicide prosecutor assigned to the Major Offense/Career Criminal Bureau in the office of District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, and as law clerk to the late Judge Leonard P. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Levy is the author of a non-fiction popular history of DNA in the courtroom, And The Blood Cried Out (Basic Books/Harper Collins), also published as a mass market paperback and in a Japanese edition. He has published more than a dozen articles on legal issues and trial practice in publications including The New York Times and Litigation magazine. Mr. Levy has been a frequent trial commentator on Court TV, and has also appeared on the Today show, Firing Line with William F. Buckley, and Lou Dobbs. He has served as Chair of the Council on Criminal Justice of the New York City Bar Association, a member of the Executive Committee on the Board of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts, and a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School.

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Martin J. Mack

Executive Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs

Martin J. Mack was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Regional Affairs in January 2011. Mr. Mack previously served for eight years as Deputy Attorney General to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, and as Deputy Secretary for Appointments to Governor David Paterson. Mr. Mack also served as Deputy Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs to Governors Paterson and Spitzer. In addition, he was an Assistant District Attorney in Cortland County from 1980 to 1983, Cortland County Attorney from 1984 to 1987, and Mayor of the City of Cortland from 1988 to 1992. Mr. Mack was a partner in a private law practice for over 18 years, and holds a B.S. degree from Cornell University, a Master of Arts in Teaching from SUNY Cortland, and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina. He is married to Lee Scott-Mack, and they have two children, Sarah and Brennan.

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Kelly Donovan

Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice

Kelly Donovan was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice in November 2012. Ms. Donovan oversees the Criminal Division’s five bureaus, including Public Integrity, Criminal Prosecutions, including the Auto Fraud and Crime Proceeds Special Units, Taxpayer Protection, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit and the Organized Crime Task Force. She joined the New York State Attorney General’s Office in September 2011 as Chief of Criminal Investigations for the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, overseeing and coordinating all of the division’s prosecutorial efforts statewide. Ms. Donovan previously served as First Deputy Inspector General in the New York State Office of the Inspector General where, beginning in 2007, she was responsible for investigations into misconduct, fraud and waste involving State agencies, public authorities, employees, contractors and vendors. Ms. Donovan was also chairperson of the working group of the New York State Stimulus Oversight Panel. Prior to working with the Inspector General, Ms. Donovan was Deputy Chief of the Labor Racketeering Unit of the New York County District Attorney’s Office and a member of the Sex Crimes and Domestic Violence Units in the Trial Division of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Donovan is a graduate of Boston College and the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University.

Janet Sabel

Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice

Janet Sabel was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Social Justice in January 2011. Previously, Ms. Sabel was General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of The Legal Aid Society where she held a number of positions since 1985. At Legal Aid, Ms. Sabel worked as a staff attorney in the Civil Division’s Brooklyn Neighborhood Office; staff attorney in the Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit, where she worked on federal and class action litigation on disability and health issues; managing attorney of the Lower Manhattan Neighborhood Office and the Society’s Health Law Unit; and Attorney-in-Charge of Legal Aid’s citywide Immigration Law Unit. Ms. Sabel served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Coffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ms. Sabel received her B.A. from Harvard/Radcliffe College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root- Tilden Scholar.

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Karla Sanchez

Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice

Karla Sanchez was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice in January 2011. Ms. Sanchez oversees the Economic Justice Division’s five Bureaus, including Antitrust, Consumer Frauds and Protection, Internet, Investor Protection and Real Estate Finance. Immediately prior to joining the Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Sanchez was a litigation partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. She successfully litigated before courts and arbitration panels throughout the country representing both plaintiffs and defendants involving a broad range of products and disciplines, including residential mortgage-backed securities, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, underwater sea cables, and consumer products. She was the first and sole Hispanic partner at Patterson Belknap and has been recognized as one of Crain’s New York Business’s 40 Under Forty. Prior to joining Patterson Belknap, Ms. Sanchez served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Deborah A. Batts, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law cum laude and Order of the Coif, and an A.B. from Columbia University. Ms. Sanchez is a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee of the First Department, New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division as well as a member of the Executive Committee for the New York City Bar. She was the former Vice Chair of the Board for LatinoJustice: PRLDEF.

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Kent T. Stauffer

Executive Deputy Attorney General of State Counsel

Kent T. Stauffer was appointed Executive Deputy Attorney General for State Counsel in January 2011. Mr. Stauffer was previously an Executive Vice President at Chartis, Inc., following service as Senior Vice President and the Director of Litigation for JPMorgan Chase and its predecessor, Chase Manhattan. Prior to that, he was engaged in trial practice as a partner in the New York City firm of Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served as Chief of the Tax and Environmental Units and a member of the Civil Rights Unit, and an associate at the firm of Breed, Abbott & Morgan. Mr. Stauffer previously served as initial co-chair of the In-house/Outside Counsel Litigation Group of the New York City Bar Association, and served as a Director of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest for 19 years, including two years as Chair. Mr. Stauffer received a B.A. in economics from Amherst College, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

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Barbara D. Underwood

Solicitor General

Barbara D. Underwood was appointed Solicitor General in January 2007. Prior to her appointment she served as Counsel and as Chief Assistant to the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. From 1998 to 2001 she was the Acting Solicitor General and Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. She has held executive positions in the Queens and Brooklyn District Attorneys’ Offices, and served as a trial attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She was Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Visiting Professor at New York University School of Law, and Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School. She was a law clerk to Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Georgetown University Law Center.

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