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Susan D. Hawkins is Of Counsel to the firm. Susan earned her BA (with distinction) from Yale University and graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law (in the top 2% of her class). She was Senior Articles Editor for the Fordham Law Review. After a federal district court clerkship for USDJ Denny Chin, in the Southern District of New York, Susan worked as a labor law associate at Simpson Thacher.
Judge Chin then asked her to return as his law clerk for a second term, following which she became a litigation and employment associate at Kramer Levin, working on a wide array of significant civil cases. She then served for more than four years as a Principal Court Attorney at the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. In that role, she reviewed the briefs and records in hundreds of cases, to prepare the Bench for oral argument and draft opinions. Susan brings superior research, writing and analytical skills to the firm.