Fifty-three new city attorneys on Monday were sworn-in by New York City Acting Corporation Counsel Muriel Goode-Trufant. The city Law Department's class of 2024 joins the nearly 800 lawyers across 22 divisions of the office. The new city attorneys hail from across the United States and bring with them myriad backgrounds— the class includes a rodeo competitor, a professional dancer who trained at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a U.S. Naval Academy boxing champion. The Law Department—the nation's oldest and largest municipal law office—represents the city, the mayor, certain elected officials, and affirmative and defensive litigation involving City agencies. Assistant corporation counsels also appear in juvenile delinquency proceedings in Family Court as well as Administrative Code Enforcement proceedings.