Jillian (she/her) has been practicing law since 1986. She is admitted to the bars of New York and New Jersey only.

Jillian has represented clients in cases across the country, as permitted by local federal courts in appropriate cases.

In addition to New York and New Jersey, Jillian has represented clients in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington State.

Jillian is a former Professor of Law & Society at Ramapo College, and former Executive Director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund. She received her B.A. in Classics from Yeshiva University, her law degree from Seton Hall University, and her Ph.D. from Northeastern University.

She has authored over 50 academic publications, presentations and other scholarly works, as well as articles and interviews for media organizations including The New York Times and Associated Press.

Jillian published, with Professor David B. Cruz of USC, the first law school casebook from an academic publisher to focus on the legal treatment of transgender, gender nonconforming, and non-binary individuals, primarily through U.S. materials but also incorporating legal developments in other parts of the world. Gender Identity and the Law (2021) is available from Carolina Academic Press.

She has written a book on gender transition in the workplace for HR personnel, along with several book chapters, peer-reviewed social science articles, and law review articles. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Albany Law School.

Her volunteer work has included being a member of the Labor & Employment Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the founder and former Executive Director of the National Transgender Bar Association, Chair of the Transgender Law Symposium, a member of the Board of Directors of Lambda Legal, a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Williams Institute, and a member of the Board of Advisors of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

She has received awards for her legal service to the community from the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, Gay City News, Fordham Law Outlaws, LGBT Rights Committee of the NYC Bar Association, and was selected as one of the Trans 100 in 2014.

She has been recognized by Law Dragon as one of the top 500 plaintiff’s lawyers in the U.S. She has also been a member of the Editorial Board of Law360’s Employment Discrimination Section, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.