CUNY Law Career Planning Office

08/18/2025

08/18/2025

Welcome the CUNY Law 1Ls who were at the August 2025 Court Orientation, Friday, August 15. Many thanks to the following who helped to make this day a success:

Judge Hasa Kingo
Judge Laura Ward
Judge Erika Edwards
Judge Joel Cohen
Judge Karen Lupuloff
Judge Shim
Judge Jean-Jacques
Judge Nelsen
Judge Scott Schwartz
Referee Teitelbaum
Referee Forman
Referee De Peralta
Judge Judy Kim
Judge Zarabi
Judge Michele Rodney
Judge Daniele Chinea
Diana Sinabria, Chief Clerk, New York County Surrogate’s Court


US District Court (SDNY) District Executive's Office

Amanda Rios
Amanda Beltran
Michelle Davis
Silvano Cazares
Ericka Para Ramirez
Joanne Hyppolite
Ryan Dooley
Tracey Bing
Franklin Siegel
U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang & her law clerks Reema Doleh and Michael Cederblom
Shahed Chowdhury
Jacqueline Tosto
Alana Greenberg
Interim Dean Natalie Gomez-Velez
Jacinta Patrice-George
Htet Myat Hnin
Therese McNulty
Photographers: Susan Stava and Deb Chin-Egan

Photo credits: unofficial group photo: Sam Sue
Photo in front of 100 Centre Street: Jefferson Siegel

05/01/2025

Congratulations to all those who took part in yesterday's redux of the Court Orientation group photo on the steps of the LIC courthouse. This includes those who participated in the 2022 Court Orientation (3L daytime and 3L evening students) as well as 4Ls in the 2021 Court Orientation. Because the Orientations were during the pandemic, there was no in-person group photo. How time has changed since then!!

As we await Susan Stava's photos, here's one I took on my iphone. Many thanks to CUNY Law grad NYS Sup.Ct. Judge Lumarie Maldonado-Cruz, Administrative Judge Maguerite Grays, Dean Sudha Setty and Assoc. Dean of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management Joanne Hyppolite. A shout out to Career Planning's Jasmin Torres & Therese McNulty for shepherding.

04/09/2025

https://teach.aals.org/events/webinar/

Free zoom webinar April 22nd 5:00-5:30 pm Eastern, preregister using link below.

This webinar is for law school career development professionals, current students, and graduates who may have an interest in law teaching. How to Become a Law Teacher is designed to provide useful information about the faculty hiring process within the legal academy. Only a small segment of law scho...

02/27/2025

CNUY Law grad Gail Schecter, a DOGE casualty, was interviewed by CNN today. She's suing.

Gail Schechter, a former VA employee who was fired, and her attorney Pamela Keith speak to CNN’s Sara Sidner about Schechter’s lawsuit to get her job back. Sidner also asks about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) controversial comments about federal workers.

09/27/2024

Many thanks to CUNY Law grads Melissa Marshall (2015) of Mountain Watershed Association of southwestern PA and Jennifer Ganata (2007) Communities for a Better Environment located in LA. Jennifer & Melissa spoke today to students in a lunchtime conversation.

09/13/2024

The official group photograph of the incoming 1L Class in the Ceremonial Courtroom of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse, Southern District of New York, at the conclusion of the 2024 Court Orientation. Also a few candid photos of students taking the public service oath. Many thanks to Susan Stava, the seasoned photojournalist, who painstakingly worked to display all of the faces of everyone in the group. It's a remarkable photograph!!

08/26/2024

https://www.jamsadr.com/events/2024/global-perspectives-navigating-employment-disputes-across-borders

CUNY Law graduate Aliaksandra Jain (formerly Ramanenka) a partner at the employee side Outten and Golden, is one of the panelists.

Global Perspectives: Navigating Employment Disputes Across Borders

08/23/2024

Photo of Court Orientation group touring Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Rita Mella (CUNY Law Class of 1991). In the front left center, Judge Mella wearing a gray business suit. Many thanks to 2L Melissa Lam and Associate Director of Student Activities Michelle Davis who were the Group Leaders.

08/23/2024

Here’s an informal Court Orientation group shot Career Planning Office Director Sam Sue took with his iphone---something to see while we await the official professional photo.

A highly successful 2024 Court Orientation!!

Many thanks to the Career Planning Office crew that made for a successful 2024 Court Orientation: Jacqueline Tosto, Therese McNulty, Jasmin Torres, Alana Greenberg. Also many thanks to the Student Affair Office crew—namely Amanda Beltran, Amanda Rios, Erika Parra Ramirez, and Michelle Davis. Also special thanks to Prof. Franklin Siegel. Thanks to Associate Judge Jenny Rivera, who served as the keynote speaker, and to Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Joanne Hyppolite.
Thanks to all the student who volunteered to make this happen: Shahed Chowdhury, Miles Evans, David Guarente, Kristen Hazelton, Melissa Lam, Aileen Ministro Jennafer Mukofsky , Laura Reyes, Jared Roman, and Naamit Tubul.

Thank you to all the judges and their staff: Family Court Judge Karen Lupuloff; NY State Supreme Court Justices Carol Sharpe, Verna Saunders, Laura Ward, and Hasa Kingo; Housing Court Judge Vanessa Fong; New York County Surrogate Judge Rita Mella; Criminal Court Judge Robert Rosenthal; New York City Civil Court Judges Jeffrey Zellen and Anna Lewis; and US Immigration Court.

Finally special gratitude to CUNY Law graduate and Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Edwina Richardson and her staff.

06/17/2024

CUNY Law grad Nicole Faut (2018) is organizing this womrn in the law event.

The Young Lawyers Conference ("YLC") of the Virginia State Bar ("VSB") is excited to host Bridging the Generational Gap for Women in the Law with Lauren Stiller Rikleen on Friday, June 28, 2024 from 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM [2.0 hr MCLE credit PENDING] at the Loft at Liberty Street in downtown Harrisonburg, Virginia, to honor and uplift women in the legal profession in our area and across the Commonwealth.

The event will feature Lauren Stiller Rikleen, an accomplished attorney, author, and speaker, who is a nationally-recognized leader in the arena of bringing the legal community together over topics of empowerment and overcoming inequality, bias, and other barriers that women have faced in the legal profession. Her roster of legal, business, and community leadership roles and accolades would be too much to mention here, but to highlight, she is the Co-Chair of the Women’s Caucus of the American Bar Association, and has published several books and over 200 articles on important topics about women and the law. As part of her speaking engagement with us, we are excited to provide copies of Lauren’s book, “You Raised Us, Now Work With Us: Millennials, Career Success, and Building Strong Workplace Teams,” for all attendees of Bridging the Generational Gap for Women in the Law. Lauren will sign books upon request.

A virtual option is available for out-of-town participants, and this event is geared towards law students, lawyers, judges, and legal support staff across the Valley and around the Commonwealth.

To register, please visit https://bit.ly/empoweringwomeninthelaw. More information about the types of tickets available and the event itself can be found in the attachment.

We would like to thank the following law firms and local businesses for their encouragement and generosity in sponsoring this event:
in alphabetical order
Bank of the James
Clerk of Court, Rockingham County
Consumer Litigation Associates
Evans Driver PLC
Flora Pettit PC
Hoover Penrod PLC
Litten & Sipe LLP
Logan & Logan PLC
Reporting Service, Inc.
Sellers Law Firm PLLC
Sharp Litigation
Shenandoah Valley Paralegal Association
Timberlake Smith
If your law firm or business would like to sponsor this event, please let us know as soon as possible as we are very close to our goal--again, thank you to this community for supporting women in our profession.

As law firms and the legal profession at large across Virginia undergo leadership changes with one generation of legal professionals retiring and another leaving the profession at a staggering rate, the VSB Young Lawyers Conference invites you to brunch with Lauren Stiller Rikleen—a nationally rec...