Victor A. Kovner, a former corporation counsel under Mayor David N.
"It was a very dangerous idea," said Mr. Schwarz, the former corporation counsel.
Judge Scheindlin named a monitor — Peter L. Zimroth, a former corporation counsel — to oversee changes in training, supervision, monitoring and discipline.
Frederick A.O. Schwartz Jr., another former corporation counsel for the city, said determining how to handle such lawsuits was tricky.
He chose Mr. Harding Paul Crottyy, his former corporation counsel; Richard Grasso, the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; and Howard Wilson, the chairman of the School Construction Authority.
She enlisted four law professors, Burt Neuborne, Norman Dorsen, Arthur R. Miller, and Judith Resnik, as well as a former corporation counsel, Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., to represent her and challenge her disqualification.
Joining Mr. Giuliani in the consulting venture were two of his oldest and closest friends, Dennison Young Jr., his former counsel, and Michael Hess, the former corporation counsel.
If Mr. Giuliani gives the deposition, it will be the first time he has done so in his six years as mayor, said Mr. Hess and Paul A. Crotty, a former corporation counsel.
"I think they prefer streets to be in bad shape so they can bring more lawsuits," Frederick A. O. Schwarz Jr., a former corporation counsel, said in an interview in 1983.
Although Mr. Kovner said yesterday that he would not comment on the case, he did say that as a former corporation counsel under Mayor David N.
