Bobbi C. Sternheim

Adjunct Professor Bobbi Sternheim is a highly respected and seasoned trial lawyer with Fasulo Braverman & DiMaggio, LLP, headquartered in New York City. She has taught Trial Advocacy at Haub Law since 2006. She has built a reputation as a leading criminal defense lawyer experienced in handling a wide variety of matters in federal and state court for individual and corporate clients. A recognized leader in the local and national criminal defense bar for litigating difficult and complex cases, she uses her courtroom and advocacy skills in New York and beyond.

Professor Sternheim's case portfolio covers a wide range of criminal and civil matters. Among her notable criminal cases, Professor Sternheim has tried international organized crime and racketeering conspiracies, international terrorism offenses, international telemarketing fraud, capital murder, and interstate transport of pornographic media. She has represented federal defendants charged with death-eligible offenses as both lead and learned counsel and persuaded the Attorney General of the United States to de-authorize a federal death penalty case. Her notable civil cases include a gender discrimination suit against the Mission of Saudi Arabia, a financial interpleader action against Imelda Marcos, and a medical malpractice suit against the United States Bureau of Prisons.

In addition to her law degree, Professor Sternheim holds a master's in forensic psychology and an LLM in Advocacy. She is a fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers and the first (and only) woman recipient of the New York Criminal Bar Association's Award for Excellence in the Profession.

Professor Sternheim has taught advocacy on a local, national and international level, including as director of Cardozo Law School's Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. In addition to adjunct professorships at Stetson University College of Law and Haub Law, she has served as a faculty member of the Federal Criminal Justice Act Trial Skills Academy, a supervisor in Cardozo's Criminal Appeals Clinic, and has taught at Stetson's Oxford, UK Program.

Professor Sternheim is the Criminal Justice Act Panel Attorney Representative for the Southern District of New York and a member of the Defender Services Advisory Group to the U.S. Courts' Committee on Defender Services. She is a member of Southern District's Criminal Justice Act Peer Review Committee and Mentoring Programs and serves on the Board of Directors of Federal Defenders of New York. She is a past President of the New York Women's Bar Association, and has chaired the Criminal Courts Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

• BA, State University of New York at Buffalo
• MA, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
• JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
• LLM, Stetson University College of Law

• Trial Advocacy LAW 684