Oral history interview with Florence Dreizen, 1998

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-law

Scope and Contents

Childhood: family, interest in law; education: BA Government Cornell University 1939, first year of law school at Cornell University, transfer to Columbia University Law School, LLB Columbia University Law School 1941; career: impact of World War II on job market, Karelson, Karelson and Rubin, Leon Lauterstein, Executive Assistant to the Nassau County Executive, Counsel to Municipal Services Administration for the city of New York, Counsel to the Mayor's Office of Construction for the City of New York, Second Deputy Comptroller for the City of New York, Deputy Labor Commissioner for Legal Affairs and Counsel to the New York State Department of Labor, Administrative Law Judge for the Environmental Control Board of the City of New York; public works; politics of New York City government

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Dreizen, Florence--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Suzuki, Carol M., interviewer.
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

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