Penulis: Evan A. Davis

Evan A. Davis resides in New York City and is a senior counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1969 where he was editor in chief of the Columbia Law Review. He clerked for Harold Leventhal on the D.C. Circuit and Potter Stewart on the Supreme Court. Following his clerkships, he was appointed the first general counsel of the New York City budget division and later made the chief of the Consumer Protection Division in the city’s Law Department. In 1974, he joined the Impeachment Inquiry staff of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. He practiced law as a Cleary litigation associate and then partner from 1975 to 1985 when he was appointed counsel to Governor Mario Cuomo. He returned to Cleary in 1991 and later served as president of the New York City Bar and vice chair of the Columbia University Trustees. He also chaired the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Public Education and served on the New York State Bar’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct when it revised the ethics rules for lawyers. He currently serves as manager of the Committee to Reform the State Constitution, which was initially established as a committee to advocate for calling a state constitutional convention. Strengthening enforcement of the state’s Code of Ethics has been a continuing priority for the group.