TOURO LAW WELCOMES FOUR NEW FACULTY MEMBERS, ONE NEW ADMINISTRATOR

Touro Law welcomed four new faculty members: Ryan Nasim, Assistant Professor of Legal Process; Mauricio Noroña, Director of the Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; John Quinn, Assistant Professor of Legal Process; and Danielle N. Rielly, Assistant Professor of Legal Process. We also welcomed Juan Colberg-García, who is serving as the Legal Manager of our Clinical Program.

RYAN NASIM
Assistant Professor of Legal Process

Ryan Nasim has been appointed Assistant Professor of Legal Process. Previously, he had been teaching as an adjunct at Touro Law while operating a private law practice providing representation in the areas of real estate, wills and trusts, criminal defense, civil litigation, family-based immigration petitions, and personal injury. Before opening his practice, Professor Nasim spent five years as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the New York City Law Department in the Manhattan Tort Division, Labor and Employment Litigation Division, and the Family Court Division. At the New York City Law Department, Professor Nasim tried multiple jury and bench trials, defended actions in State and Federal court, prosecuted actions in Criminal and Family Court.

 
MAURICIO NOROÑA
Director of the Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Mauricio Noroña has joined Touro Law as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the school's Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Previously, he served as a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo Law's Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, where he supervised students in handling complex individual and impact cases. Additionally, he led significant immigration policy advocacy projects and took part in class-action lawsuits. Before his time at Cardozo, Professor Noroña worked as the supervising attorney at the African Services Committee (ASC), overseeing a team dedicated to providing comprehensive legal assistance to hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers in New York City. He earned his J.D. from CUNY School of Law in 2010 and was recognized as a Haywood Burns Fellow in Civil and Human Rights during his time there. His research focuses primarily on immigration enforcement.

JOHN QUINN
Assistant Professor of Legal Process

John Quinn, an honors graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, also holds a PhD in English from Stony Brook University. He joins the faculty full-time this fall as an Assistant Professor of Legal Process after teaching the subject as an adjunct during the 2022-2023 academic year. Before Touro, Professor Quinn taught the first-year legal writing course at St. John’s and Harvard Law Schools, the upper-level Political Science sequence in Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties at Stony Brook University, and eleventh-grade English in a Bronx public high school. Professor Quinn also served as long-term career law clerk to the Honorable Raymond J.Dearie of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. That appointment followed an established career in the active practice of criminal and civil law that included time in “big law” and a boutique firm and culminated in his thriving solo practice. With these experiences, Professor Quinn brings an especially professional and practical perspective to Legal Process I and II.

DANIELLE N. RIELLY
Assistant Professor of Legal Process

Danielle N. Rielly has joined Touro Law as an Assistant Professor of Legal Process with extensive legal practice experience. Previously, she was an Associate in Frier Levitt's Healthcare White Collar Defense and Government Investigations group, working from the firm's New York City Office. Her practice focused on defending healthcare and life sciences professionals against criminal, civil, and administrative investigations and prosecutions. Professor Rielly additionally served as in-house counsel to an extensive New York healthcare system and as a Writing Fellow at St. John's University School of Law. Professor Rielly's teaching and research interests include health law, statutory interpretation, and legal writing. Her note, Fighting for Your Life in America: A Study of "Right to Try" Laws Throughout the Country, was published by the St. John's Law Review.

 
JUAN D. COLBERG-GARCIA
Legal Manager, Touro Law Clinical Programs

Juan Colberg-García serves as the Legal Manager of Touro Law’s Clinical Program. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico and a law degree at the University of Puerto Rico, School of Law, where he also became a certified Mediator for conflict resolution. While in Law School, he managed the Labor Law Pro Bono program, focused on providing legal services and resources to employees in different communities and sectors to inform them of their legal rights as employees in their areas of work. He also worked on Civil and Family Law cases for the Legal Clinic at the University of Puerto Rico. He has experience working in Finance, Corporate Finance, Tax, Accounting, Contracts, Vendors, Payroll, Auditing, and other areas, as well as legal experience working on Civil Law, Family Law, Contracts, Torts Law, and healthcare-related Class Actions.