Jared Hatcliffe

Adjunct Professor Jared Hatcliffe is the Associate Director of the Advocacy Program at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law. He began his legal career working for the New York City Law Department, where he currently holds the position of Senior Trial Counsel. He has tried hundreds of cases involving alleged police misconduct, including allegations of excessive force involving shootings; use of tasers and civil rights violations; employment discrimination; medical malpractice, negligent design; premises liability; and automobile liability. Many of these cases involved catastrophic damages issues.

In addition to teaching at Pace Haub Law, Professor Hatcliffe has also taught at Stetson University College of Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Pace University’s Paralegal Certificate Program, and has delivered lectures at leading institutions including the University of Oxford. He is a moderator and instructor for the N.Y.C.L.D.’s Tort Division’s in-house trial training and has taught programs at the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

In 2022, he was awarded the Loretta Musial Service Award by the Pace Trial Advocacy Department, and he was selected by vote of the graduating class as the Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year (2021–2022, 2023–2024).

Professor Hatcliffe is also a published author whose works include Trial Advocacy: The Art of Storytelling – Strategies for Winning a Trial in New York State Court (Carolina Academic Press, 2022) and the third edition of New York Criminal Procedure: An Analytical Approach (with Morse and Gorman, 2022). He is the founder and manager of The Advocate’s Advantage, Pace Haub Law’s official Trial Advocacy Program blog.

• BS, St John’s University
• JD, St. John’s Law School

• Advanced Trial Advocacy LAW 684A
• Skills Workshop: Motion Practice LAW 684KK

• Municipal Affairs Award, New York City Bar Association
• Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year (2021–2022)
• Loretta Musial Service Award (2022)
• Barbara C. Salken Outstanding Adjunct Professor of the Year (2023–2024)