Aaron Zucker

Aaron Zucker is a Partner at Abrams Fensterman, LLP. Mr. Zucker, a member of the firm’s Appellate and Litigation Practice Groups, focuses his practice on Appellate Litigation.

Immediately prior to joining the firm, Mr. Zucker was a Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable Michael J. Garcia of the New York Court of Appeals. As a clerk, Mr. Zucker gained valuable knowledge of civil and criminal appellate matters by researching and analyzing the complex legal issues, spanning all practice areas, that came before the Court.

Mr. Zucker also has experience as a practicing Appellate Attorney, having served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Appeals Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s Office. In that role, Mr. Zucker briefed and argued over forty appeals before New York’s appellate courts, including the New York Court of Appeals, the Appellate Division, First Department, and the Appellate Term, First Department.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Zucker was an Appellate Court Attorney at the Appellate Division, Fourth Department. There, Mr. Zucker developed his foundational knowledge of civil and criminal appellate matters by serving as a law clerk to several of the Justices of the Court.

Mr. Zucker graduated, cum laude, from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Law Review and the Casebook Editor of the Hofstra Moot Court Board. As a law student, Mr. Zucker served as a legal writing teaching assistant, as well as, an intern in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and the Major Offense Bureau of the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. Upon graduating, Mr. Zucker received the Graduation Awards for Excellence in Procedural Law Courses and Labor and Employment Law Courses, recognizing his distinction in the study of those areas of law, and the Gold Level Public Service Certificate, reflecting his completion of over 750 hours of public service. Mr. Zucker’s student note, “Making Gun Offender Registries Available to the Public: A Safety Practice or Target Practice?” was published in Volume 42, Issue 4, of the Hofstra Law Review.

Mr. Zucker is admitted to practice in the State of New York.