Professor of Clinical Education
B.A. University of Wisconsin
J.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor Ann Goldweber is Director of Clinical Legal Education
at St. John's School of Law as well as Director of the Consumer
Justice for the Elderly: Litigation Clinic.The Clinic represents
low-income Queens seniors in predatory lending, foreclosure
defense, deed theft, foreclosure rescue scam and debt collection
cases. Clinic students also provide community outreach and
education at senior centers throughout Queens.
Professor Goldweber is a frequent speaker at forums and conferences
regarding predatory lending, defending victims of deed theft and
foreclosure rescue scams. She is a member of the New York City
Anti-Predatory Lending Task Force, New Yorker's For Responsible
Lending and has worked with the New York State Office of Court
Administration to implement a foreclosure pilot program in Queens
Supreme Court. Professor Goldweber is also a member of the Civil
Court Committee of the Bar Association of the City of New
York.
In addition to her work directing the Law School's clinics,
Professor Goldweber teaches Poverty Law and has taught
negotiations, interviewing, and pre-trial and trial advocacy skills
at the Law School. She has also taught contract law to law
students in Paris, France, and at the China Judges' Institute in
China.
Prior to joining the law faculty in 1998, Professor Goldweber
was a partner at the firm of Goldweber Lauriello and Epstein L.L.P.
and practiced in the areas of environmental law, employment
discrimination, and family law. She started her career as a legal
services attorney where she developed and ran a civil legal
services program for low-income clients in rural Wisconsin. She
then served for twelve years as an Assistant Attorney General in
the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney
General's Office enforcing environmental laws in state and federal
courts.