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Since graduating from law school in 1998 Ms. Rudenstine primarily has represented individuals on appeal following convictions for serious felonies in both state and federal court.

In 1998-99, she held a one-year clerkship with the New Jersey Supreme Court, serving both as Death Penalty Clerk for the entire Court and as law clerk for Justice Alan B. Handler. She then worked as a staff attorney for two non-profit legal organizations, the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in Durham, North Carolina. In both organizations, she exclusively represented death row inmates in direct appeal and postconviction proceedings.

In 2004, Ms. Rudenstine settled in Gainesville, FL. After a stint teaching the criminal defense clinic at the University of Florida and serving as a visiting professor at Florida Coastal School of Law, she opened her own criminal appellate practice.

Ms. Rudenstine has published in various areas, including race and the law, juvenile detention and the importance of narrative in legal advocacy. Her co-authored article "The Briseno Dilemma" is one portion of an entire edition of the New York University Clinical Law Review devoted to deconstructing the failed prosecutions of four Los Angeles law enforcement officers charged with beating Rodney King. (Stories Told and Untold: Lawyering Theory Analyses of the First Rodney King Assault Trial. Introduction by Anthony G. Amsterdam, Randy Hertz and Robin Walker-Sterling, 12 Clinical L. Rev. 1-202 (2005)).