After finishing law school, Habba served as a law clerk to Eugene J. Codey, Jr., then Presiding Judge of the Civil Superior Court in Essex County, New Jersey from September 2010 until in September 2011. Habba began private practice in September 2011, when she joined as an associate at Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry, LLP, where she worked from September 2011 to February 2013.