Photographed outdoors at the law school, where my smaller classes met outside whenever the weather allowed. The advice to my students still stands: on a nice day, take the books outside.
Chris Czerwonka
Czerwonka Legal is now Czerwonka Educational Consulting — same attorney, same name on the door, a deliberate turn toward teaching. After years practicing law and teaching across law school, undergraduate, and bar preparation settings, I made that choice: to dedicate my career to legal education — and to helping like-minded organizations design technology that meets people where they are. The transition wasn't a departure from the law — it was a deeper commitment to its future.
I work with every student personally. Each one brings their own story, their own challenges, and their own path to the bar. My approach begins with understanding the whole person, because emotional support and genuine confidence aren't extras — they're the foundation that academic rigor is built on.
I build every tool and curriculum my students use, from adaptive exam simulators with full ADA accommodations to comprehensive flashcard libraries — all developed in-house, all grounded in how people actually learn under pressure. When you work with Czerwonka Educational Consulting, you work directly with me.
My background in accessibility is central to how I build. Before focusing on legal education, I led a team of approximately 20 professionals handling accessibility concerns and customer accommodations at TurboTax Live — teams, more accurately, since that workforce is largely seasonal and the group was rebuilt and retrained cycle after cycle. The work came to us by referral: when a customer disclosed a disability unprompted in the middle of an interaction, the team already helping them brought us in, and our tax professionals — whom I trained specifically to work with customers with disabilities — stepped in alongside them. It was accommodation work with real people in real time, not a compliance checklist. That experience shaped my conviction that the tools I build should serve everyone from the ground up — not as an afterthought.
Where to check any of this. I teach at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. I came to it as a paid teaching fellow in 2014, working with students under an independent contractor agreement with the school, and did that until 2016, when the faculty appointment was offered on the strength of that work, on adjunct terms, that summer — though not every term since. I resigned the appointment to join TurboTax Live full time, which the role could not be held alongside, and from 2024 to 2026 the school’s adjunct pool was oversubscribed and had no course to give me; I spent those years tutoring, just not at Hofstra. In Fall 2026 I am teaching Disability Law — a course Hofstra had not offered in many years, and which the school took up as soon as I proposed it. You do not have to take my word for that, or wait for it, or trouble anyone to confirm it. Hofstra’s class schedule is public and live: open the University’s class schedule search, choose Fall Semester 2026, pick my name from the instructor list, and search. LAW 3795, CRN 94115, Mondays and Wednesdays — which is also why those are the two days I don’t take students. Once the term begins I appear in the faculty directory with a bio page as well, and if you would rather see the paperwork, I am glad to show you the appointment letter itself at your consultation with the compensation terms redacted. References from Intuit for the accessibility work are available on request. That work was deliberately kept out of public view at the time: specialist accommodation support draws far more demand than any one team can responsibly take on, and promising it broadly would have meant serving it badly. My New York admission is public record and searchable in the state's attorney directory. You shouldn't have to take a stranger's word for any of it.
And where the “10+ years” below comes from, because a round number invites the question: teaching fellow at Hofstra from 2014, adjunct faculty from 2016, bar preparation under another company’s banner, undergraduate teaching along the way, and the 2024–2026 stretch spent tutoring when Hofstra had no course to give me. It is not one unbroken faculty tenure, and I would rather hand you the pieces than round them into a number and hope you don’t ask.
And if I am ever not the one who finishes. A practice built on one person has to answer the obvious question, so the agreement answers it in writing rather than leaving it to goodwill. If I die, become incapacitated, close the practice, or simply fail to deliver for thirty straight days after you have asked to schedule, you are not quietly reassigned to a stranger. You receive a full refund of every hour you have not used, plus the $500 platform allocation — and a named successor, Eteri Czerwonka, is contractually bound for it. You never have to prove anything about my health to invoke this; thirty days of silence is enough on its own. If you had already earned the pass guarantee, it converts to a cash refund of your full package price. That obligation ranks ahead of any payout to me or to the company, you can enforce it directly, and you do not even have to locate the successor to do it. Agreement §15 →
TurboTax Live and Intuit are trademarks of Intuit Inc. They are named here solely to identify where prior work was performed. Neither Intuit Inc. nor TurboTax Live is affiliated with Czerwonka Educational Consulting, LLC, and neither sponsors or endorses it or any of its services.