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Hakeem Jeffries, 35

Assistant general counsel

CBS Broadcasting Inc.


Though Hakeem Jeffries grew up in a middle-class home in central Brooklyn, trouble was literally around the corner, where thugs sold crack cocaine and a drive-by killing once bloodied a block party.

Today, Mr. Jeffries is an eloquent and highly paid litigator for CBS Corp., which deploys him to tackle complicated cases and quash high-profile lawsuits. Two years ago, when CBS was part of Viacom Inc., he worked on the suit filed in Utah over Janet Jackson's infamous "wardrobe malfunction.

He "was one of our best litigation associates," says Ted Wells, co-chairman of the litigation department at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, where Mr. Jeffries worked for five years. "He was a star and continues to be a star--now for one of our clients."

But the NYU Law School graduate aspires to shine on another kind of stage: the state Assembly. He shocked the political establishment in 2000 by nearly defeating 20-year Brooklyn Assemblyman Roger Green.

Mr. Jeffries' residence was spitefully drawn out of the district, but, along with his wife and their two children, he moved back into it and is likely to run for the Assembly seat again this year.

Winning would mean a massive pay cut and a commute to dreary Albany, but "public service involves sacrifice," Mr. Jeffries says.

- Erik Engquist