New Associate Director of Bar Preparation Joins Brooklyn Law

The Brooklyn Law School community welcomes Robert N. Fisher as the new Associate Director of Bar Preparation.

Working closely with Associate Dean for Academic and Student Success and Professor Karen Porter and Professor Flora Midwood, Assistant Director of the Academic Success Program, and other key faculty, Fisher will lead the Law School’s expanded efforts to support students and graduates in successfully gaining admission to the bar. In this role, he will be counseling and advising students and alumni test-takers, coordinating with Themis and other bar-review providers, monitoring and advising on developments relating to the transition to the NextGen bar exam, and collecting and analyzing data to shape the Law School’s future bar-support initiatives.

Fisher, a native of Long Island, received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2012, having previously earned a master's in biomedical engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. For the past 12 years, he has practiced complex employment litigation at law firms in New York and California. Since 2021, Fisher has also served as an adjunct professor at Pace University’s Haub School of Law, teaching 1L legal writing courses.

That combination of firm and teaching experience, as well as having himself taken the bar in three states at different stages of his career, Fisher said, gives him a unique perspective in his new role. “Representing employees across the country, of different backgrounds, career paths, and life experiences, from solar installers in California to coal miners in Kentucky to EMTs in New York City, has given me an opportunity to interface with people in many different walks of life and helped prepare me to work with students of different backgrounds and experiences,” Fisher added. 

He also finds a natural connection between legal writing and prepping for the bar exam. “I enjoy teaching legal writing because the small-class environment allowed me to build relationships with students. They often come to legal writing teachers with other questions on how to manage their law school experience and prepare for exams.”

In Brooklyn Law, Fisher said, he sees a school that is “really standing strongly behind the whole bar-taking cohort, so I’m excited to harness the expertise and energy of my Brooklyn colleagues moving forward as our students prepare to take the bar. I have a firm belief in public service and a love for the law school environment. Now I can contribute to the education of students and give something back to the community that launched my career.”