In the 1990s, Reichler spent two years as a staff attorney with the National Center on Women and Family Law and more recently has been judging child support and custody cases in New York's busiest court, Manhattan Family Court. In addition, Reichler works as a volunteer in arbitrating small civil claims and spends one evening each week volunteering to help tenants and small landlords with their cases in Housing Court. Reichler has written books and scholarly legal articles and has had many of her legal decisions published. She has also written books and pamphlets for persons who can't afford attorneys, and continually speaks to groups of judges, lawyers, and members of the local community groups from across the state. She went on to explain to the group that her beginnings at William Smith, an all women's college with a strong interdisciplinary approach, shaped her future by making her open to change.
Success requires more than getting on the right track.
Sometimes you have to move forward without knowing. A general goal can be accomplished not just by planning but by being open to adventure and of taking a different path, serendipity. Spokeswomen from William Smith Congress, the college's student government, said they worked to recruit Reichler and two other equally noteworthy alumnae to speak at the celebration because of their lifelong commitments to citizenship, which is the theme of the year-long celebration of the 90 th anniversary. Citizenship was selected as the theme in tribute to William Smith, the Colleges' namesake, who also built a community Opera House and Observatory. Other alumnae speakers, in addition to Reichler, were Antoinette Vorisek Richardson, Class of 1969, and Patrisha A. Blue, Class of 1977.