Ellen C. Yaroshefsky
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Jacob Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law

B.A., 1969, J.D., 1975, Rutgers University

Teaching at Cardozo since: 1988
Specialties: Professional Responsibility, Criminal Law, Civil Rights

Recent Courses:  Ethics in Criminal Advocacy, Ethics in Public Interest, Professional Responsibility, Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP), Wrongful Convictions

Ellen Yaroshefsky is Clinical Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the Jacob Burns Ethics Center at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She teaches professional responsibility courses, organizes ethics programs and is the director of Cardozo’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.

Ms. Yaroshefsky represents lawyers and law firms in criminal, civil and disciplinary matters and serves as an expert witness on legal ethics issues.

She serves as an ethics consultant and frequently lectures on topics involving the law of lawyering to a wide variety of bar associations and other groups.  She is cochair of the Ethics, Gideon and Professionalism Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section, cochair of the Ethics Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the ethics advisor for the Prosecutorial and Judicial Complaint Center of the New York Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, a member of the advisory board of the Justice Center of the New York County Lawyers Association and of New York State Bar Association Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, and has served on various committees of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She has received a number of awards for litigation and received the New York State Bar Association award for “Outstanding Contribution in the Field of Criminal Law Education.”    

From 1975-82 she was a criminal defense lawyer practicing in Seattle, Washington.  In 1982 she joined the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, litigating civil rights, criminal and international human rights cases. She was in private practice in New York from 1988-1992 and has been a full-time member of the Cardozo faculty since then.  Prior to joining Clayman and Rosenberg, Ms. Yaroshefsky was of counsel to Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP, specializing in the law of lawyering.

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