Sidney Thaxter

Sidney Thaxter graduated from CUNY School of Law in 2011. While in law school, Sidney was the recipient of the Charles H. Revson Public Interest Fellowship, a member of the Suspension Representation Project, as well as the National Lawyer’s Guild police misconduct project.  As a student attorney with the CUNY Adult Defender Clinic, Sidney represented clients charged with misdemeanor offenses in Queens.  Sidney interned with The Bronx Defenders, the Legal Aid Society, and Fisher Byrialsen & Kreizer, a private criminal law and civil rights firm while in law school.  Prior to law school, Sidney was an investigator for the Legal Aid Society in Manhattan.