Before joining the faculty at Cardozo, Professor Lushing was a trial attorney in the criminal division of the Legal Aid Society; administrative assistant district attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office, and chief of its Appeals Bureau; an associate with a New York City law firm; and a private practitioner specializing in appellate litigation. Professor Lushing was notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review, a Kent Scholar in his first year, and twice a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was a member of the Eastern District Criminal Litigation Committee and executive director of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers.