Shira D. Weiner graduated in 1999 from Emory University with a degree in economics. In 2002, she received her J.D.
cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and also received the Dean's Merit Scholarship and the Bond Scholarship. Ms. Weiner was managing editor of the Cardozo Law Review and is the author of
Mouse-to-Mouse Resuscitation: Cybermedicine and the Need for Federal Regulation, 23 Cardozo L. Rev. 1107 (2002).
Ms. Weiner previously practiced with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. She was an associate editor of Weil's bankruptcy publication, Reorganizing Failing Businesses - A Comprehensive Review and Analysis of Financial Restructuring and Business Reorganizations, Revised Edition (2006). In the spring of 2006 and 2007, she served as a teaching assistant in Professor Gary T. Holtzer's Business Reorganizations course at Cardozo Law School.
