Touro Hires Asst. Dean for Career & Professional Development

Dean Harry Ballan is delighted to announce the appointment of Peter Ausili as Assistant Dean for Career & Professional Development. 

“Peter has been an active member of the Touro community for many years,” stated Dean Ballan. “I am confident that the experience, skills and relationships that he brings to our Office of Career & Professional Development will have a positive influence on our students and our alumni.”

In his role as Assistant Dean, Mr. Ausili will lead the law center’s Career & Professional Development team, while playing a key role in the law center’s management team. He is responsible for developing and implementing policies and practices for his office; managing a comprehensive program providing career advice, counseling, and professional development services to students and alumni; establishing and maintaining contacts with legal employers in the public and private sectors; tracking and preparing job-placement statistical information; and coordinating the efforts of his office with those of the Law Center’s other administrative departments.

Mr. Ausili spent over 25 years as a law clerk to the late Senior United States District Judge Leonard D. Wexler, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he assisted Judge Wexler in managing the Alfonse M. D’Amato United States Courthouse in Central Islip, the second largest federal courthouse in the nation. He also assisted Judge Wexler in handling thousands of pretrial matters and hundreds of trials in civil and criminal actions. He worked with Judge Wexler on some of Long Island’s major federal cases of the past quarter century, including high-profile criminal cases involving senior officials of Symbol Technologies, former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke, and former Town of Oyster Bay Planning Commissioner Frederick Ippolito.

Mr. Ausili was a litigation associate at two prestigious New York City law firms: Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. His practice included primarily commercial litigation and white-collar criminal defense matters.

Mr. Ausili is a member of the Eastern District of New York’s Litigation Advisory Committee. He is a former director of the Suffolk County Bar Association (SCBA) and former chairperson of the SCBA’s Federal Courts and Labor & Employment Law committees, as well as a member and/or officer of other legal, professional, and community organizations. He has written and lectured widely on federal practice and procedure and various other topics.

Mr. Ausili graduated magna cum laude from St. John’s University School of Law, where he served as Notes and Comments Editor of the law review. He has served as a member of the law center’s adjunct faculty since 2009, teaching Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Pretrial Litigation.

The Office of Career & Professional Development's mission is to empower students and alumni to take control of their careers by providing exceptional service, highlighting Touro Law Center and its students to potential employers, and facilitating the job-search process.

 

To support this mission, The Office of Career & Professional Development provides individual counseling, which includes helping students to identify short- and long-term career goals, draft career-related documents, acquire competitive skills, understand job-search techniques, prepare for interviews, and develop networks to achieve individual goals.

 

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Patti Desrochers

Director of Communications

pattid@tourolaw.edu

(631) 761-7062