About Lissett Costa
Lissett Costa Ferreira graduated from Fordham University School of Law with a J.D. in 2003. She completed her legal training amid the rhythms of New York City, where the law school’s clinics, clinics, and urban practice opportunities shape many graduates’ early careers. Earning a degree from Fordham placed her in a network of practitioners who work across the city, the state, and beyond.
After law school, Ferreira entered the legal field in New York. She is admitted to the bar in that state and has worked in the legal community there since earning her J.D. Her career spans the years when the city and state legal markets adapted to new regulatory demands, technological change, and shifting client expectations, giving her professional years that cover multiple legal cycles.
Her education at Fordham emphasized legal research and writing, courtroom procedure, and client counseling. Those are durable skills that lawyers draw on in many settings. Ferreira’s training included exposure to the practical side of lawyering through classroom simulation and the kinds of assignments law schools route to students preparing for practice. Colleagues and classmates from that period often go on to work in both private firms and public agencies in New York.
Over the course of her career, Ferreira has practiced in New York firms and legal settings that require close attention to state law and court practice. She has handled matters that arise under New York’s procedural and substantive rules and has navigated filings, hearings, and client meetings typical of state practice. Her background reflects the experience of an attorney who trained in a large urban law school and then continued to work where that training is directly applicable.
Ferreira’s trajectory underscores a straightforward professional arc: formal legal education at an established law school followed by sustained practice in the jurisdiction where she is licensed. She keeps the practical demands of clients and courts in view and draws on a two-decade-plus span of professional time since graduating in 2003. She practices law in New York.
