Riti Singh

Riti Singh teaches first-year law students Legal Practice at New York Law School. Before NYLS, Riti Singh spent twelve years as an attorney with the Juvenile Rights Practice of The Legal Aid Society, representing children in abuse, neglect, custody/guardianship, and termination of parental rights proceedings. In the Appeals Unit, she was responsible for drafting, filing, and arguing briefs on behalf of children in New York appellate courts and developing pieces of training and advising attorneys on trial strategy. Before she did appeals, Riti was a trial attorney, regularly appearing in Queens County Family Court as Attorney for the Child in child protective cases. Riti is also an adjunct instructor of law at Columbia Law School, where she taught Legal Practice Workshops for three years and taught the externship seminar course for students working in Advocacy and Direct Civil Legal Services. Riti is actively involved with the South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) and she is a mentor with The Appellate Project (TAP), which aims to empower law students of color to pursue careers in the appellate field. Riti earned her law degree from Brooklyn Law School, where she graduated cum laude and was a member of the Brooklyn Law Review, an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow, and the recipient of the Professor Nancy H. Fink Family Law Award. She was also a Bergstrom Child Welfare Law Fellow and the recipient of a SABANY Public Interest Fellowship. Before law school, Riti taught high school English with Teach for America in New Orleans, Louisiana, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.