Lawrence K. Marks has served as Administrative Director of the Office of Court Administration since 2004. He previously served as Special Counsel to the Chief Administrative Judge, and as OCA’s Deputy Counsel for Criminal Justice. Prior to his employment with the Unified Court System, he was a senior supervising attorney with the Legal Aid Society in New York City, in private practice and a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Thomas C. Platt.

He is the editor and co-author of New York Pretrial Criminal Procedure (Volume 7 of West’s New York Practice Series), and the author of several law review articles and numerous government reports. He is also an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice graduate program.

He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany (magna cum laude) and Cornell Law School (cum laude), where he was an editor of the law review, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1983. A resident of Nassau County, he is married and has two daughters.

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