Connell, John M.

Shira Lauren Feldman holds a B.A., cum laude, from Columbia University, where she was President of the University's mock trial team and was awarded the Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize for her Honors Thesis.  She earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow and the recipient of the Albert Podell Oral Advocacy Award.  Her current work at the firm, which she joined in August 2011, includes state appeals and post-conviction motions, federal habeas corpus actions, and § 1983 civil rights litigation.  Ms. Feldman belongs to the New York City Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers' Association, and the National Lawyers Guild.

At NYU, Ms. Feldman and fellow students in the Federal Defender Clinic successfully litigated a federal criminal trial in the Eastern District of New York that ended in an acquittal on all counts.  Ms. Feldman was also an instructor in the Prisoners’ Rights and Education Project and chaired the Law School’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ms. Feldman has worked as a law clerk at a number of civil rights organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union.  She was also a law clerk at the Federal Defenders of New York.

She is a member of the Bars of New York State and the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.