In his first Assembly session, he introduced a bill passed and signed by Governor Al Smith to amend the Fraudulent Check Law in an attempt to reduce the number of frauds from passing worthless checks and voted with Republicans on a bill that made a seller of poison liquor guilty of first-degree manslaughter.
In later sessions, he sponsored bills to oppose ticket speculation, memorialize Congress for repealing the Volstead Act, curb misleading medical reports in radio advertisements, create "people's counsels" in public utility proceedings, study methods of providing security against unemployment, curb alimony jailing, and defining the new crime of "fixing."
He succeeded Jonah J. Goldstein to the Court, who in turn was appointed earlier in the year to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Otto A. Rosalsky.
[17] At one point, he handled a case involving Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's fight with writer William Manchester over his book The Death of a President.
He retired as Justice in 1972 and joined the law offices of Shea, Gould, Climenko and Kramer as counsel to the firm.