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Susan J. Abraham
Associate Professor of Applied
Legal Analysis
Faculty Advisor, Moot Court Association
Susan J. Abraham joined the full-time faculty at New York Law School as associate professor of applied legal analysis in the fall semester 2003. She comes to the Law School from the law firm of Reitman Parsonnet, where she represented plaintiffs at the trial and appellate level, with an emphasis on employment discrimination.
Professor Abraham began her legal career as a criminal defense trial lawyer in Mercer County, New Jersey, and soon moved to New Jersey’s Office of the Public Defender, Appellate Section. She argued many cases before the New Jersey Appellate Division and the State Supreme Court while supervising and reviewing the briefs of new attorneys.
As a solo practitioner, from 1989 to 1996, Professor Abraham represented clients in disability discrimination, employment, criminal, pension, and other matters. She then became supervising attorney with New York’s Office of the Appellate Defender, where, along with arguing and filing her own cases, she supervised and trained OAD staff and volunteer attorneys. She also taught substantive and procedural criminal law to the OAD volunteer attorneys.
Professor Abraham has always been inclined toward teaching as well as law; in the early 1990s, she taught English as a second language at the American Language Institute at New York University and expository writing at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She has also privately tutored law students in legal writing.
Professor Abraham earned her B.A. in English from Oberlin College in 1977 and her J.D. from Rutgers Law School in 1983. She also received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in 1991.
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Contact information:
T: 212-431-2116
F: 212-431-8193
E: sabraham@nyls.edu
O: A803a
Assistant: Sonja Davis
T: 212-431-2363
E: sdavis@nyls.edu
O: A Building, 8th floor
Education:
Oberlin College, B.A., 1977
Rutgers Law School, J.D., 1983
Warren Wilson College, M.F.A., 1991.
Courses:
Principles of Legal Analysis
Advanced Appellate Advocacy
At New York Law School since 2003.
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