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: teaching fellow from 2014, adjunct faculty from 2016, and in Fall 2026, Disability Law — LAW 3795, CRN 94115, Mondays and Wednesdays, which is why those are the two days I don’t take students. It is in Hofstra’s public class schedule. My New York admission is in the state’s attorney directory. References from Intuit for the accessibility work are available on request. That, bar preparation under another company’s banner, and undergraduate teaching along the way, is the “10+ years” below; not one unbroken tenure.
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 dollar you have paid for hours you have not had (never less than $500 on Unlimited, where hours are not counted) — 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.