J.D. Viewbook 2020-21

YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS STARTS HERE

Everything is Possible

PREPARING YOU FOR TODAY’S LEGAL MARKETPLACE — AND TOMORROW’S The legal marketplace is changing at a rapid pace.

Our curriculum adapts to these changes, enabling you to enter

the profession with the skills necessary to succeed in your chosen field

and a résumé that stands out from the competition.

150+ ALUMNI IN THE

JUDICIARY

58

#

IN THE NATION FOR ALUMNI

PARTNERS AT TOP 100 FIRMS

#

49

IN THE NATION

FOR FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP Ranked by Brian Leiter

FIND YOUR FOCUS CONCENTRATION AREAS Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Business Law Honors Corporate Compliance

FELLOWSHIPS & SCHOLARSHIPS Business Law Honors Fellowship Child and Family Advocacy Fellowship

Family Law

Dwight L. Greene Memorial Scholarship in Minority Rights Advocacy

Health Law

Freedman Justice Fellowship

Intellectual Property Law Honors

Gitenstein Institute Advanced Research Fellowship in Health Law

Criminal Law and Procedure

International Law Honors

Law, Government, and Politics Fellowship Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Fellowship Meltzer Lippe Legal Ethics Fellowship William R. Ginsberg Memorial Fellowship in Environmental Law

JOINT DEGREES JD/MALFL (Forensic Linguistics) Program with the Hofstra University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences JD/MBA Program with the Frank G. Zarb School of Business JD/MPH Program with the School of Health Professions and Human Services

JOURNALS ACTEC Law Journal (Journal of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel) Family Court Review Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal Hofstra Law Review Journal of International Business & Law (JIBL)

SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

STUDY ABROAD

CLINICAL PROGRAMS

INSTITUTES & CENTERS

Asylum

Center for Applied Legal Reasoning

Immigration and Border Enforcement Program in San Diego, California

Community and Economic Development Criminal Justice Deportation Defense Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Family Law Federal Tax Immigration Law Reform Advocacy Veterans Law Youth Advocacy

Center for Children, Families and the Law Center for Intellectual Property Law

Summer Program in Pisa, Italy Winter Program in Curaรงao, Dutch Caribbean

Center for Legal Advocacy Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation Law, Logic & Technology Research Laboratory Monroe H. Freedman Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics Wilbur F. Breslin Center for Real Estate Studies

DID YOU KNOW?

HOFSTRA LAW IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS A PIONEER IN FULLY INTEGRATING CLINICAL EDUCATION INTO A TRADITIONAL LAW SCHOOL CURRICULUM.

HELPING YOU PURSUE YOUR PASSION AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR FIELD OVER

12,000 ALUMNI GLOBALLY

JUDITH A. LIVINGSTON ’79 SENIOR PARTNER, KRAMER, DILLOF, LIVINGSTON & MOORE

HON. SALLIE MANZANET-DANIELS ’88 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

ROBERT ROSENTHAL ’74 CHAIRMAN AND CEO, FIRST LONG ISLAND INVESTORS, LLC

PATRICIA GALTERI ’83 MANAGING ATTORNEY, MEYER, SUOZZI, ENGLISH & KLEIN, P.C.

RANDY LEVINE ’80 PRESIDENT, NEW YORK YANKEES; OF COUNSEL, JACKSON LEWIS P.C. AMY LEDER ’92 EXECUTIVE PARTNER (NEW YORK OFFICE), HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP HON. LEONARD B. AUSTIN ’77 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

SUSAN AXELROD ’89 CHIEF SUPERVISORY OFFICER, MERRILL LYNCH WEALTH MANAGEMENT

JOEL G. SEGAL ’89 PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL AGENT; PRESIDENT, U.S. TEAM SPORTS DIVISION, LAGARDÈRE SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

YOUR NETWORK

DAVID A. PATERSON ’83 FORMER GOVERNOR, STATE OF NEW YORK LARREN M. NASHELSKY ’91 CHAIR AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE PARTNER, MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

PERRY WEITZ ’83 CO-FOUNDING MEMBER, WEITZ & LUXENBERG P.C.

HON. GEORGE SILVER ’83 DEPUTY CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE, NEW YORK CITY COURTS

PHILIP J. SHAPIRO ’78 PRESIDENT AND CEO, LIBERTY MARITIME CORPORATION

MARC HAMROFF ’83 MANAGING PARTNER, MORITT HOCK & HAMROFF LLP ERIC BRETTSCHNEIDER ’79 FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, NEW YORK CITY ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES

CLASS OF 2019 JOB RANKINGS

WHERE DO OUR GRADUATES WORK? Of the Class of 2019 graduates with a known employment status, 87.2%* were employed 10 months after graduation.

This includes full-time, part-time, long-term, and short-term positions in the following categories:

PRIVATE PRACTICE: 57%

68TH

GOVERNMENT: 20% BUSINESS & INDUSTRY: 14% PUBLIC INTEREST: 5%

NATIONALLY

OTHER: 4%

87.2%

Full-Time, Long-Term Bar Passage Required Jobs Source: Law School Transparency (LST)

* CLASS OF 2019

EMPLOYMENT

*See the back cover for an explanation of how NALP calculates our employment figure. Employment statistics in a uniform chart provided by the American Bar Association can be found on the Hofstra Law website at law.hofstra.edu/509.

CAREER SERVICES IS COMMITTED TO HELPING YOU STAND OUT One-on-One Career Coaching

Personal Branding and Marketing

Résumé and Cover Letter Preparation

Interview Training

Professional Development Training

TOP LAW FIRMS, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND PUBLIC INTEREST ORGANIZATIONS RECRUIT OUR STUDENTS Some top legal employers for summer associate, summer internship, and postgraduate placements include:

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Latham & Watkins

White & Case

Arnold & Porter

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Administration for Children’s Services

Baker & Hostetler

Morrison & Foerster

Cozen O’Connor

Moses & Singer

Catholic Health Services

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Nixon Peabody

Debevoise & Plimpton

Norton Rose Fulbright

Dechert

Paul Hastings

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Holland & Knight

Proskauer Rose

Jackson Lewis

Ropes & Gray

Kirkland & Ellis

Seyfarth Shaw

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Shearman & Sterling

County District Attorney’s Office: Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, New York (Manhattan), Queens, and Suffolk The Legal Aid Society Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) New Jersey Superior Court

New York City Law Department New York Court of Appeals New York State Attorney General’s Office New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division PwC U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

ENJOY THE BEST OF NEW YORK CITY PLUS THE AMENITIES OF A COLLEGE CAMPUS

15

MINUTES TO THE BEACH

35

LAW SCHOOL STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

21

DIVISION I SPORTS TEAMS

18

ON-CAMPUS DINING OPTIONS

240 ACRE CAMPUS

57% OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING COSTS 57% LESS THAN IN MANHATTAN

SOURCE: COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH

TOP LAW FIRMS IN OUR BACKYARD Our proximity to the top law firms on Long Island, many of which are filled with Hofstra Law alumni, offers you another opportunity for internships and externships throughout your law school experience.

Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone Bond, Schoeneck & King Campolo Middleton & McCormick Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman Cullen and Dykman Farrell Fritz Forchelli, Curto, Deegan, Schwartz, Mineo & Terrana

25

MILES TO MANHATTAN (45 MINUTES BY TRAIN)

Garfunkel Wild Harris Beach Jaspan Schlesinger Lazer Aptheker Rosella & Yedid Leeds Brown Law Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein Moritt Hock & Hamroff Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd Rivkin Radler Ruskin Moscou Faltischek Shaub, Ahmuty, Citrin & Spratt Westerman Ball Ederer Miller Zucker & Sharfstein

200 OVER

COURSES

Hofstra Law offers a wide and diverse range of courses. The courses listed are arranged by general topics. Many courses apply to two or more areas of law.

Not every course is offered each semester.

REQUIRED FIRST-YEAR COURSES

ADVOCACY/LITIGATION/ ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Foundational Lawyering Skills

Administrative Law

Housing Litigation Skills

FALL SEMESTER

Advanced Competition Skills

Housing Practicum

Advanced Legal Research

Immigration Clinical Practicum

Alternatives to Litigation

Insurance Litigation

Applied Evidence: Evidentiary Oral Argument in Trial Courts

International Commercial Arbitration

Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing

The Jury

Asylum Clinic

Constitutional Law I

Law Reform Advocacy Clinic

Civil Procedure

Contracts

Clinical Prosecution Practicum

Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I & II

Legal Analysis, Writing & Research II

Computer Technology in Legal Practice

Legal Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation

Property

Conflict of Laws

Litigation and Drafting Skills

Courtroom Technology and Advanced Advocacy

Logic Skills for Legal Reasoning

REQUIRED UPPER-LEVEL COURSES

Criminal Justice Clinic

Mediation Externship

Critical Legal Theory and Critical Lawyering/Advocacy

Mediation Principles and Practice

SECOND YEAR

Deportation Defense Clinic

(Full-Time)

Civil Procedure Criminal Law Legal Analysis, Writing & Research I Torts

SPRING SEMESTER

(Full-Time)

Delivering Access to Justice in a Challenged Society

Constitutional Law II

Disability Law

Foundational Lawyering Skills

Domestic Violence Seminar

SECOND OR THIRD YEAR

Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions

Evidence

E-Discovery Practice

Experiential Course

Environmental Dispute Resolution

Professional Responsibility Course

Ethics in Criminal Advocacy Evidence The Expert Witness in Civil Litigation Externship, Matrimonial Law Externship Program, Civil Law Externship Program, Criminal Law Federal Courts

Hofstra Law in D.C. Externship Program

Law and the Brain

Matrimonial Skills

Mediation Seminar Medical-Legal Partnership Practicum Medical-Legal Partnership Primer Modern Divorce Advocacy Negotiation Seminar: Theory, Research, and Practice Negotiation Skills The Practical Aspects of Being a Lawyer Practice-Ready Research Skills Pre-Trial I: Written Discovery Pre-Trial II: Depositions Practice Pre-Trial III: Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion Pretrial Skills Real-Time Lawyering: The Temporary Restraining Order

Real-Time Lawyering Skills: The Grand Jury Representing Health Care Providers Securities Arbitration Selected Problems in New York Civil Practice 17-A Guardianship Demonstration Project Trial Techniques Veterans Law Clinic

International Transaction Skills

CRIMINAL LAW

Introduction to Asset Management Legal and Compliance

Clinical Prosecution Practicum

Introduction to the Economic Law of the European Union for Non-EU Lawyers

Criminal Justice Clinic Criminal Law

Law and Role of In-House Counsel

Criminal Law in the Workplace

Lawyers as Leaders

Criminal Procedure I: Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments

Medical Product Development and Licensing Agreement Drafting Seminar

Youth Advocacy Clinic

Mergers and Acquisitions

BUSINESS/COMMERCIAL/ CORPORATE LAW

The Policy and Business of Cryptocurrencies

Accounting and Finance for Lawyers

Combatting Corruption

Nonprofit Corporations

Private Equity: Fund Formation and Transactional Issues

Criminal Procedure II: Adjudication Death Penalty Domestic Violence Seminar Ethics in Criminal Advocacy Expert Witness — Homicide Externship Program, Criminal Law

Real Estate Development Seminar

Immigration Enforcement at the Border

Real-Time Lawyering: Negotiating the Complex Deal

Immigration Law Law and Role of In-House Counsel

Regulation of Securities Broker/ Dealers

Law and the Brain

Banking Law Bankruptcy

Secured Transactions

Business and Law of Marijuana

Securities Arbitration

Business Drafting Seminar

Securities Regulation

Business Organizations

Transactional Lawyering: Translating Deals into Contracts

Real-Time Lawyering Skills: The Grand Jury

Combatting Corruption

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Community and Economic Development Clinic

ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW

Administrative Law

Admiralty Law Advanced Bankruptcy Antitrust

Business Transactions in Healthcare

Consumer Transactions Contracts

Conflict of Laws Constitutional Law I & II

Controversies in Corporate Law

Critical Legal Theory and Critical Lawyering/Advocacy

Corporate Compliance and Ethics

Death Penalty

Corporate Finance

Deportation Defense Clinic

Corporate Government Seminar

Federal Courts

Derivatives Law

Foreign Affairs and the Constitution

Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinical Practicum

Immigration Law Introduction to the American Legal System

ERISA and Employee Benefit Plans

Mass Media and the First Amendment

Export Laws and Export Controls

National Security and the Law

Insurance Litigation

Public Health Law, Policy and Ethics

International Business Transactions International Commercial Arbitration

Voting Rights and Election Law

Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System Organized Crime and the Response of Government

Administrative Law Animal Law Disaster Recovery Clinic Energy Law and Policy Environmental Dispute Resolution Environmental Law Environmental Law in Commercial and Real Estate Transactions Global Climate Change and U.S. Law Land Use Regulation Property ESTATE PLANNING Animal Law Elder Law Estate Planning Wills, Trusts, and Estates

FAMILY LAW

Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

Intellectual Property Colloquium

Comparative Family Law

Regulation of Securities Broker/Dealers

International Business Transactions

Delivering Access to Justice in a Challenged Society

Representing Health Care Providers

Domestic Violence Seminar

Securities Regulation

Externship, Matrimonial Law Family Law

Seminar on Law and Policymaking in Washington, D.C.

Family Law Practicum

Special Education Law

Family Law (With Skills Component)

State and Local Government

Child Abuse and Neglect

Interdisciplinary Seminar on Family Law and Policy International Family Law

Voting Rights and Election Law HEALTH LAW

Introduction to Child and Family Advocacy

Bioethics and the Law

Matrimonial Skills

Business Transactions in Healthcare

Mediation Externship Mediation Seminar Modern Divorce Advocacy Pro Bono Practice Seminar Pro Bono Scholars Program 17-A Guardianship Demonstration Project Sexuality, Gender, and the Law Youth Advocacy Clinic GOVERNMENTAL LAW AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS

Business and Law of Marijuana

Clinical Bioethics I & II Elder Law Health Law Housing and Health Law and Medicine: Cooperative Professionalism Law and Psychiatry Law, Health, and Technology Law of Medical Product Discovery, Development and Commercialization

Administrative Law

Medical-Legal Partnership Practicum

Admiralty Law

Medical-Legal Partnership Primer

Animal Law

Medical Product Development and Licensing Agreement Drafting Seminar

Antitrust Asylum Clinic Business and Law of Marijuana

Medicare and Medicaid Law

Intellectual Property Survey Law and Role of In-House Counsel Medical Product Development and Licensing Agreement Drafting Seminar Patent Law Sports Law Trademarks INTERNATIONAL LAW Admiralty Law Combatting Corruption Foreign Affairs and the Constitution Global Climate Change and U.S. Law Immigration Clinical Practicum Immigration Law International Business Transactions International Commercial Arbitration International Family Law International Human Rights Law Seminar International Law International Transaction Skills Law of Humanity and Law of Nations Law of International Trade Transnational Law LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT LAW

Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

Advanced Labor Law

Environmental Law

Representing Health Care Providers

Criminal Law in the Workplace

Hofstra Law in D.C. Externship Program

Veterans Law Clinic

Employment Discrimination

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

ERISA and Employee Benefit Plans

Consumer Transactions Deportation Defense Clinic

Special Education Law

Immigration Clinical Practicum Immigration Enforcement at the Border Immigration Law Introduction to Statutory and Regulatory Interpretation Land Use Regulation

Antitrust Computer Technology in Legal Practice Copyright Entrepreneurship and Intellectual Property Clinical Practicum

Collective Bargaining Disability Law Employment Law Labor Law Organized Crime and the Response of Government Sex-Based Discrimination Sports Law

LEGAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS

Deportation Defense Clinic

Law and Literature

Clinical Bioethics I & II

Law and the Brain

Computer Technology in Legal Practice

International Human Rights Law Seminar

Lawyers and Social Change Sexuality, Gender, and the Law

Contract Law

LEGAL ANALYSIS, WRITING AND RESEARCH

Ethics in Criminal Advocacy

Advanced Competition Skills Advanced Legal Research Approaches to Legal Analysis and Writing Business Drafting Seminar Drafting and Negotiating Contracts, Statutes, and Other Governing Provisions Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I & II

Corporate Compliance and Ethics Introduction to Asset Management Legal and Compliance Law and Role of In-House Counsel Law Practice Management Lawyer Malpractice Lawyers and Social Change Lawyers as Leaders Lawyers’ Ethics The Practical Aspects of Being a Lawyer Pro Bono Practice Seminar

Legal Methods

Pro Bono Scholars Program

Litigation and Drafting Skills

Public Health Law, Policy, and Ethics

Perspectives on Legal Analysis and Writing Practice-Ready Research Skills

Special Problems in the Law of Lawyering

Land Use Regulation Landlord and Tenant Law in a Challenging Society Law, Health, and Technology Lawyers as Leaders Medical-Legal Partnership Practicum Medical-Legal Partnership Primer Pro Bono Practice Seminar Pro Bono Scholars Program Veterans Law Clinic TAXATION Accounting and Finance for Lawyers Business Transactions in Healthcare Community and Economic Development Clinic Criminal Law in the Workplace Estate Planning

Pre-Trial I: Written Discovery Pre-Trial III: Drafting and Arguing the Summary Judgment Motion

REAL ESTATE AND PROPERTY LAW

Transactional Lawyering: Translating Deals into Contracts

Environmental Law in Commercial and Real Estate Transactions

U.S. Legal Research and Writing for International Students

Housing and Health

Housing and Health Housing Litigation Skills

Federal Income Taxation of Corporations Federal Income Taxation of Individuals Federal Tax Clinical Practicum Federal Tax Procedure Nonprofit Corporations

LEGAL TECHNOLOGY

Housing Practicum

Computer Technology in Legal Practice

Landlord and Tenant Law in a Challenging Society

Courtroom Technology and Advanced Advocacy

Property

Delivering Access to Justice in a Challenged Society

Real Estate Development Seminar

Advanced Tort Practice and Problems

Real Estate Transactions

Animal Law

E-Discovery Practice

Land Use Regulation

TORTS

Consumer Transactions

Fundamentals of Cybersecurity

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Law, Health, and Technology

Asylum Clinic

Logic Skills for Legal Reasoning

Community and Economic Development Clinic

The Policy and Business of Cryptocurrencies

Real Estate Development Seminar

Contract Law Fundamentals of Cybersecurity Law and Role of In-House Counsel Lawyer Malpractice

Critical Legal Theory and Critical Lawyering/Advocacy

Logic Skills for Legal Reasoning

Delivering Access to Justice in a Challenged Society

Products Liability

Medical Malpractice Torts

Everything is Possible

law.hofstra.edu/Possible

MENTORING IS KEY Our faculty and alumni regularly mentor students, providing valuable career and personal guidance.

DIVERSITY MATTERS TO US The Princeton Review has ranked us in the top 10 for “Best Environment for Minority Students.”

OUR RICH TRADITION OF PUBLIC SERVICE We pioneered fully integrating clinical education into a traditional law school curriculum.

OUR CURRICULUM IS CUTTING-EDGE The American Bar Association has ranked us in the top 10 for teaching the technology of practice.

WE TEACH THE BUSINESS OF LAWYERING Our professional development programs help you develop your personal brand and your marketing and leadership skills.

WE’RE A LEADER IN EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION More than 150 students pursued an externship this past year.

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OFFICE OF ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT 108 Hofstra University | Joan Axinn Hall | Hempstead, New York 11549 T 516-463-5916 | F 516-463-6264 lawadmissions@hofstra.edu | law.hofstra.edu/JDAdmissions The National Association for Law Placement (NALP) defines a law school’s employment rate as the number of graduates employed divided by the number of graduates whose employment status is known. For NALP purposes, Hofstra Law’s employment rate of 88.1 percent is calculated by dividing the number of employed graduates, 207, by the number of graduates whose employment status was known, 235. The total number of graduates in the Class of 2018 was 239. Other organizations and publications, such as U.S. News & World Report, the Princeton Review and Barron’s, each define a law school’s employment rate and percentage differently.

The economy, including the legal economy, is constantly changing, and employment for past classes is not an accurate predictor of employment for future classes. In addition, a law degree from Hofstra Law or any other law school is not a guarantee of employment in the legal field.

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