Daily News | How Jay Young rose from a high-school intern in City Hall to a lawyer poised to succeed Darrell Clarke on Philadelphia City Council
“I learned the power of networking at a very young age,” Young said in an interview last week. “I’ve been preparing to run since I was 17.”
made a late-in-the-game decision to not seek another term. But all of the other candidates — some of whom had backing from Clarke or other elected officials — withdrew or were removed from the ballot amid legal challenges. Young said he always wanted to be a lawyer but thought of the profession mostly in terms of criminal or civil cases. In Clarke’s office, he met a young lawyer working on governmental issues.
He passed the bar exam in 2013 and then joined Clarke’s Council office as an attorney. By then, Clarke had become Council president. three months later showed that Young told Bullard that Clarke’s office would look into a dispute about the price of the properties.exploited shortcomings in the land-sale processYoung left Clarke’s office later in 2019 to practice law and has since represented developers. The Bullard controversy, he said, played no role in his departure.
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