Professor for Clinical Education. B.A., University of Wisconsin;
J.D., University of Wisconsin.
Professor Ann Goldweber is the Director of Clinical Education
and Director of the Elder Law Clinic. The Elder Law Clinic
represents low-income Queens seniors in predatory lending, 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. Professor Goldweber is a member of the New York City
Anti-Predatory Lending Task Force, New Yorker's For Responsible
Lending and is currently working with the New York State Office of
Court Administration to implement a foreclosure pilot program in
Queens Supreme Court. She is also a member of the Women in
the Courts Task Force of the Bar Association of the City of New
York. In addition to her work directing St. John'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.