Carol L. Ziegler
Lecturer-in-Law
Carol L. Ziegler practices and teaches in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics. She is currently serving as a Reporter for the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct‘s project to comprehensively redraft the disciplinary rules governing lawyers in New York State. From 1988 to 2004, she was a member of the full-time faculty of Brooklyn Law School, where she taught courses in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics, and served as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs from 1994-2004. Ms. Ziegler continues to teach professional responsibility and legal ethics as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
She received her B.A. with honors from Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences in 1968, her J.D. cum laude from New York University School of Law in 1973, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1974. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif and is a Fellow of the American Bar Association. Ms. Ziegler has served as General Counsel to the New York City Commission on Human Rights (1986-1988), Special Assistant Counsel and Counsel to the Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools (1979-1985) and as a staff attorney with Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation "A" and the Public Education Association. Ms. Ziegler was a member of the Ethics Commission for the New York State Court System from its inception in 1989 until 1997. She has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee/Committee on Civil Litigation for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the New York Bar's Committee on Professional Discipline and the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics.
Ms. Ziegler currently serves as a member of the Magistrate Selection Panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, as Chair of the Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the New York City Bar Association and as a member of the Special Committee on the Bar Examination and Other Measures of Lawyer Competency of the New York State Bar Association. She is a frequent lecturer on various legal issues, including professional ethics, for such organizations as the New York City Bar, the New York State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the Practising Law Institute.
