• Daria R. Schieferstein works on litigation matters. Previously an associate with the Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice, Daria returns to Kramer Levin after clerking for the Hon. Robert Lehrburger, magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

    While in law school, Daria interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, at the New York Attorney General’s Office, and at Lincoln Square Legal Services, in the Legislative and Policy Advocacy and the Poverty, Tax and Justice clinics.

    Daria volunteers her time to both of her alma maters, serving as a member of the Fordham Law Recent Graduates Committee and with the Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., cum laude, Fordham University School of Law, 2020
      • Merit Scholar
      • Dean’s List
      • Fordham International Law Journal
    • B.A., Political Science with minor in French and Francophone studies, Vassar College, 2015
      • Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Vassar Student Review

    Bar Admissions

    • New York, 2021

    Clerkships

    • Hon. Magistrate Judge Robert Lehrburger, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2021 - 2022

    Court Admissions

    • U.S.D.C., Eastern District of New York
    • U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York

    Focus Areas

  • Perspectives

    • Defining Matters
      Dec. 28, 2023
      Kramer Levin Files Amicus Brief in the US Supreme Court on Behalf of the American Medical Association and Other Health Care Providers in Support of the Federal Prohibition of Bump Stocks
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    • Defining Matters
      June 13, 2023
      First Department Unanimously Affirms Injunction Secured by Kramer Levin To Protect Constitutional Rights of Children and Indigent Adults
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    • Defining Matters
      Dec. 02, 2022
      Kramer Levin Sues State on Behalf of the New York State Bar Association to Stop Widespread Violation of Children and Indigent Adults’ Right to Counsel
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