PROMINENT FIRM’S NEW PARTNER

Bleakley Platt & Schmidt LLP in White Plains with a more than 85-year legacy of providing legal counsel to residents and businesses of Westchester and Rockland counties, as well as the entire Hudson Valley and Fairfield County recently announced that John W. McGowan has become a partner of the firm. McGowan focuses his practice in the areas of litigation, labor and employment law, construction law and criminal defense at all stages of litigation in the state and federal courts of New York and serves as labor counsel to several Hudson Valley police unions.

A lifelong Rockland County resident, McGowan was elected to a four-year term on the Rockland County legislature in 2019. Prior to joining Bleakley Platt, he was a senior assistant district attorney with the Rockland County District Attorney”™s Office, assigned to the Special Victims”™ Unit.

He is a faculty instructor with the Orangetown Police Youth Court and a former adjunct professor at St. Thomas Aquinas College, where he taught undergraduate courses in criminal law and evidence.