New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will deliver the 2000 Henry Korn lecture at Cornell University Thursday, April 6. His talk is at 6 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall at the Law School. The event is free and open to the public.

Before becoming state attorney general, Spitzer served as assistant district attorney in Manhattan from 1986 to 1992, where he became chief of the office's labor racketeering unit and successfully prosecuted organized crime and political corruption cases. Following that, he practiced law in New York City with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom and became a partner at Constantine and Partners. Earlier he was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, also in New York City, and a clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Known as a tough prosecutor and active public interest lawyer, Spitzer was a founder of the New York City office of the Center for the Community Interest, and in that role, represented tenant groups seeking to keep drug dealers out of public housing. The center is a national organization that works to improve urban quality of life and public safety.

The Korn lecture is an annual presentation on legal and public service issues funded in Henry Korn's name by a grateful client. Korn, who received his A.B. degree from Cornell in 1968, is a partner with the New York law firm of Kensington and Ressler. The 1999 Korn lecturer, the year the series was inaugurated, was Steven Goldstone, chair and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco.