Sabrina Sondhi

Ms. Sondhi returns to Cornell Law School for the fall 2025 semester as the Harry Bitner Legal Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Law. She will teach the legal research component for multiple sections of the Lawyering course and the Principles of American Legal Writing course.

After earning her J.D. from Cornell Law School, Ms. Sondhi clerked at the United States District Court in the Northern District of Ohio. She subsequently practiced law in California, including three years working as a trial attorney for Safeco Insurance Company.

In 2008 Ms. Sondhi returned to academia as a law librarian and instructor. She worked for ten years at Columbia Law School as their Special Collections and Services Librarian and as a Lecturer in Law. She then returned to Cornell Law School as the Director for Administrative Services in the Law Library and as an Adjunct Professor of Law. During that time she taught the legal research portion of the 1L Lawyering course and team-taught upper-level courses on foreign and comparative legal research and on legal analytics and business intelligence.   

In 2021 she became the Director of the H. Laddie Montague Law Library at Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. During her four years there, she greatly modernized the library’s holdings and collection policies so that a larger proportion of their material would be digitally accessible. In addition to her library administrator responsibilities, she was a Professor of Legal Research and taught multiple sections of a two-credit course sequence to 1L students. As a faculty member she served on two Faculty Appointments Committees and as the Faculty Advisor to the Dickinson Law Review.

Her research interests include Antiracism, Law Library Management, Information Preservation, and Legal Research Pedagogy. She authored two book chapters in the recently published Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries, edited by Ellyssa Kroski and published by Bloomsbury.