Troy McKenzie Joins Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ NYU School of Law##&&Skip to main content##&&›##&&Quicklinks##&&Areas of Study##&&Calendar##&&Career Services##&&Colloquia##&&Courses##&&Departments##&&Directories##&&Docket##&&Housing##&&Library##&&News and Press##&&NYU Home##&&Student Links##&&Technology##&&JD Admissions##&&Faculty & Scholarship##&&Global Opportunities##&&LLM/JSD Admissions##&&Academics & Courses##&&Law & Business##&&Executive Education##&&Current Students##&&Public Service##&&About NYU Law##&&Alumni & Giving##&&Centers & Institutes##&&Home##&&›##&&News##&&› Troy McKenzie Joins Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ##&&Troy McKenzie Joins Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ##&&News##&&Alumni##&&Centers##&&Faculty##&&Global##&&Students##&&Press Highlights##&&For the Media##&&Faculty Experts##&&Professor##&&Troy McKenzie##&&’ has joined the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as a 
deputy assistant attorney general. He is on leave from the NYU School of
 Law.##&&McKenzie’s
 research interests include bankruptcy, civil procedure, complex 
litigation, and the federal courts. In February he was##&&elected##&&to the prestigious American Law Institute. Last year, McKenzie became co-faculty director of the Law School's##&&Center on Civil Justice##&&which is dedicated to the study of the US civil justice system.##&&McKenzie joined the faculty in 2007; at the end of his first year, he
 was honored with the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Award for 
outstanding achievement in the classroom.##&&Before joining the Law School, McKenzie was a litigation associate in
 the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton. He clerked for Judge 
Pierre Leval of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and 
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