 Among many projects, Corcoran collaborated with Cohen in drafting the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.After leaving the White House, Corcoran retained enormous influence in the administration, in part because of high appointees who owed their positions to him.Corcoran went into private practice as a lawyer along with former U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief counsel William J. Dempsey, whom Corcoran had installed in that job in 1938.