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Lillian M. Spiess
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
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B.A., St. John’s University |
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Biography
Lillian M. Spiess is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law. Prior to teaching at Hofstra, she was a Legal Consultant at Mercer Human Resource Consulting in the Retirement practice group. Professor Spiess joined Mercer, after practicing at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits area. Prior to her tenure at Willkie Farr, Professor Spiess was an associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP in that firm’s Tax Department. Professor Spiess represented corporate clients in both public and private mergers, acquisitions and investments while regularly advising clients on employment, compensation, and employee benefit issues.
Professor Spiess received her LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law; her law degree from Touro Law Center (magna cum laude); and her Bachelor’s (summa cum laude) and Master’s degrees in Government and Politics from St. John’s University. While a student at Touro Law Center, Ms. Spiess interned for the Hon. Leonard Wexler (U.S. District Court, Eastern District, New York), served as a teaching assistant to Hon. Leon D. Lazer, (N.Y.S. Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Dept. (Retired)), coordinated the staffing for Touro’s Professional Development Program, and was Research Editor for the Touro Law Review. She was awarded First Place in the Law Review’s annual write-on competition resulting in publication of her comment, What's Wrong With This Picture?: The National Endowment for the Arts and the "Decency and Respect" Standard (Winter 1999).
Professor Spiess has also taught at Touro Law Center and St. John’s University (St. John’s College - Department of Government & Politics). She has lectured in a number of CLE Ethics programs for the New York Bar Association, Suffolk, Nassau, Brooklyn and Westchester County Bar Associations, and Touro Law Center. Professor Spiess’ most recent article, No Adequate Recompense for Destruction: Is New York's Medical Malpractice Statute of Limitations as Applied to the Misdiagnosis of Latent Diseases Unconstitutional Under the New York State Constitution's Bill of Rights?, will be published by Touro Law Review (Spring 2008). Further, Professor Spiess writes in the area of taxation and employee benefits. Her article, Paying What Was Promised: The Guarantee of Benefits Under the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992, can be found in the Quinnipiac Law Review (Fall 2006).
Law is a second career for Professor Spiess. Prior to attending law school, Professor Spiess headed the Suffolk County National Bank’s Human Resources department. Professor Spiess is also an artist, having won First Place in the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s 39th Art & Photography Exhibition. Her paintings have been exhibited in shows on eastern Long Island. Professor Spiess has also appeared in Peter Zablotsky’s play, Who’s Not Ready Holler I, in the regional and New York productions.