B.A., University of Notre Dame
J.D., University of Notre Dame

Since 2024, Victoria Esposito has been an Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where she teaches Introduction to Lawyering and Systems of Poverty. She served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law from 2022-2024. Before that, she was the first Advocacy Director of the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York (LASNNY), working with staff to identify and address systemic issues affecting low-income individuals. Some representative issues included improperly withheld SSP payments; housing issues such as persistent conditions issues and improper evictions; and improperly denied public assistance applications.  She continues to represent some of the pensioners of the former St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady, New York. Espositoa first joined LASNNY in May 2011 as a staff attorney in the Canton office and became a senior attorney in January 2014. She has handled a variety of cases, including disability, eviction, family law, and foreclosure proceedings, and has filed numerous federal appeals in disability cases.

Before coming to LASNNY, Esposito was an Assistant District Attorney for St. Lawrence County, where she served as the appellate prosecutor in addition to prosecuting misdemeanors and felonies. She also taught aspiring law enforcement officers and helped train Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (S.A.N.E.s) at the David Sullivan Law Enforcement Academy.

From 2001-2006, Esposito taught subjects ranging from English to Constitutional Law at SUNY Canton, to national and international students. She also taught political science in partnership with the Xi’an International Studies University, located in Xi’an, China, and wrote SUNY-Canton’s Legal Studies program, the first four-year paralegal program within the SUNY system.

From 2021-2025, Esposito co-authored the Social Security and Medicare Answer Book with Professor David Pratt. Her work has been published in the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, and a co-authored article is forthcoming in the Western New England Law Review; her work is available on SSRN.

Esposito is the recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s 2025 Pro Bono Award for the 3rd Judicial District and of LASNNY’s 2023 Ruth Miner Leadership Award.  She continues to perform pro bono work for LASNNY. Esposito has served on the New York State Bar Association Committee on Legal Aid (COLA) and the board of the Pride Center of the Capital Region; she currently serves on the board of the Capital Region Italian American Bar Association. She is of counsel to the Albany firm Conway Donovan & Manley PLLC.

Esposito received her B.A. and law degree from the University of Notre Dame; her B.A. in English, Russian, and Soviet Studies was awarded, with honors, in 1991, and her law degree was awarded, cum laude, in 1997.