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Carl Irace for East Hampton Town Justice!
Carl has practiced law from his East Hampton-based office since January 2012. He has been practicing law since 2001. He has practiced in over 19 jurisdictions, ranging from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, to the busy criminal courts of New York City, to the courts of Suffolk County.
He carries a varied caseload consisting of real estates matters, land use and zoning matters, will, trusts and estate matters, criminal matters, including DWI cases. He also does pro bono work. Carl has volunteered his legal services to the
Retreat, the Ladies’ Village Improvement Society, and the Amagansett Life-Saving Station Society, Inc. He also provides indigent defense as a member of the felony panel of the Suffolk County Assigned Counsel Plan.
Carl is a member of the East Hampton Lions Club and the Secretary of the Eastern Long Island Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. Prior to entering private practice, Carl served at the Deputy Town Attorney for the Town of East Hampton. He was appointed to a two-year term. Before his promotion to Deputy Town Attorney, he served as an Assistant Town Attorney.
As Deputy Town Attorney, he provided legal counsel to the Town Board, the various departments, committees, and most notably as Counsel to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Also as Deputy Town Attorney, Carl assisted the Town Attorney managing the Town Attorney’s Office and providing counsel to the Town Board at numerous Town Board meetings and during several different litigations. He also prosecuted
Town Code violations and quality of life issues in Justice Court.
Prior to the Town Attorney’s Office, Carl had a distinguished tenure of almost nine years as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City in the Office of Robert T. Johnson, Bronx County District Attorney. Carl graduated from Villanova Law School in 2001. During that time, he was an intern for the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell, of the United States Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also an intern at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania; the Frauds Bureau of the Office of the Honorable Robert M. Morgenthau, New York County District Attorney; and for the Honorable Judges Bruce M. Allen and Michael J. Obus, both of the Supreme Court of New York County.
Carl attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in Environmental Studies and American History. He wrote his senior thesis in Environmental Studies, titled “Westhampton Beach: A Case Study in Coastal
Erosion.” He was a Varsity Letter winner as an oarsman on the Heavyweight Crew, and won the esteemed Jack R. McSorely Memorial Award in 1996, for being the teammate with the “unique ability to inject humor into the intensely competitive
environment of Pennsylvania Rowing. The team was the Ivy League champion in 1996. He also hosted a popular radio program.
Carl has been interviewed by the Legal Talk Network, LTV, and by East Hampton Patch. Carl volunteers his time as a member of the East Hampton Lions Club and of the East End Classic Boat Society, in Amagansett; as Secretary of the Eastern Long
Island Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. Carl is also a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association. Carl is admitted to practice in New York State and in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
