Clayman & Rosenberg

Ellen Yaroshefsky ,
Of Counsel

Ellen Yaroshefsky is counsel to Clayman & Rosenberg. She has more than 30 years of experience as a legal ethics expert and a criminal defense lawyer. She represents lawyers and law firms in criminal, civil and disciplinary matters, as well as individuals in state and federal criminal proceedings. She has also testified as a legal ethics expert witness in numerous criminal and civil cases.

In 1992, Ellen joined the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York. She is a 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 courses in the field of legal ethics, criminal litigation, and wrongful convictions, and is the director of Cardozo's Intensive Trial Advocacy Program.

Ellen frequently lectures on legal ethics topics to a wide variety of bar associations and other groups. She is co-chair of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section's Gideon, Ethics and Professionalism Committee, chair 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 the 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."

A graduate of Rutgers-Newark School of Law, Ellen was an attorney at the Seattle-King County Public Defender's Office from 1975-80 and subsequently practiced criminal law in Seattle. In 1982 she joined the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, litigating criminal, civil rights, 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. Ellen was of counsel to Hinshaw Culbertson from 2004-2006 and joined Clayman and Rosenberg as of counsel in 2006.