Claude Millman

Claude M. Millman is a partner at the New York City office of Kostelanetz LLP. For over two decades, he has represented government contractors doing business with New York City and State government agencies and authorities, advised government officials and former government officials on ethics issues, litigated matters against the City, State, and federal government, and handled complex commercial litigation and investigations, including high-profile disputes and controversies. After graduating from Stanford University and Columbia Law School and clerking for a United States District Judge in Manhattan, Mr. Millman was appointed as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he oversaw the Environmental Protection Unit and led that office’s civil racketeering (RICO) litigation against waterfront unions and businesses. While there, Mr. Millman received the John Marshall Award, the Department of Justice’s highest recognition of excellence in legal performance, for litigation against the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) that exposed and remedied racial discrimination in tenant selection and assignment. Mr. Millman was then appointed to several positions in New York City government: he served as a Deputy Commissioner of what is now the Business Integrity Commission (BIC); as Director of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS); and as Executive Director, then Commissioner, of the Charter Revision Commission. Mr. Millman entered private practice in 2000. In 2011, he left his partnership at Proskauer Rose, LLP, to start a government procurement and contracts practice and lead civil litigation at Kostelanetz LLP.