In this edition
- Call for Nominations: Apply by Dec. 13
- Meet Our New Academic Committee Chair Seth Endo
- Meet AABANY's New Intern Yuqing Tian
- Becoming a U.S. Magistrate Judge, Dec. 5
- AABANY Committee Chairs Info Session and Meet-and-Greet, Dec. 7
- Apply for the Sonia and Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program by Dec. 30
- Highlights: Week of Nov. 14
- AABANY Clerkship Directory
- AABANY Group Membership for Law Students
- Discounted Membership - New York City Bar Association
- AABANY Speakers Bureau
- New Career Placement Committee Intake Form Now Available
- NAPABA News
- Wanted: Volunteer Attorney/Law Grads for Appellate Court Judge
- AABANY Seeks Legal Interns
- Read the Current Issue of the Advocate
- This Week on WE Blog @AABANY
- Fellowship Announcements
- Upcoming Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Other Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Recent Job Postings on the AABANY Career Center
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Call for Nominations - By mail, email, fax, or in person: December 13
AABANY's Annual Meeting is taking place in February 15, 2017. We hope to see you there! At our Annual Meeting, elections will be conducted to elect 6 Board Directors and 7 AABANY Officers for the coming year. The Officer positions include:
- President-Elect,
- Vice President of Programs and Operations - 2 Positions,
- Vice President of Finance and Development,
- Treasurer,
- Secretary, and
- Membership Director.
The Nominations Committee welcomes applications to fill the vacancies immediately. The Nominations Committee will select a slate of candidates to be included on a ballot form that will be sent out to the membership a month before the Annual Meeting. The Nominations Committee may also interview candidates before making its determination.
Please also submit:
(i) a statement of interest declaring your intent to run; and
(ii) a current resume, biography or CV listing your experience and accomplishments and any honors received to date.
As part of item (i), please indicate your experience with AABANY if you have been an active member, describing any activities that you have participated in or helped to organize. If you have not been an active member in AABANY, explain what capabilities, resources, talents, skills, expertise, experience or any other contributions you would be able to make as a Board Director or Officer. Please also identify any activities indicating a dedication and commitment to issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American community.
For a description of the qualifications, duties and obligations of Board Directors and Officers, please see Articles IV and V of AABANY's By-laws.
For more information, click here.
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Members, meet our new Academic Committee Chair! Seth currently is an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU School of Law. He is excited by the Academic Committee’s potential to build a greater sense of community amongst the area’s Asian-American legal academics.
This is the Committee for you if you want to make the transition from practicing to academia. This is also the Committee for you if you love the law as an area of scholarship. For any lawyers or law students interested in joining the mailing list, contact seth.endo@aabany.org.
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Welcome our new intern, Yuqing Tian! She joins us as a recent graduate of University at Buffalo's School of Law. She is an international student from China and Mandarin is her native language. In addition to her internship at AABANY, she also currently interns at University at Buffalo's School of Law's NYC Finance and Law Program.
She says she is delighted to meet as many members of AABANY as possible. She'll be helping us revamp our website so that our many resources are more readily available. Feel free to reach out to her at yuqing.tian@aabany.org if you have any suggestions or want to say hello!
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AABANY is proud to co-sponsor Becoming a U.S. Magistrate Judge on December 5, 2016 at the New York City Bar Association (42 West 44th Street).
Both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York expect to appoint new Magistrate Judges in the near future, and seek applications from a broad and diverse cross-section of the bar. Join us for a panel on the role of Magistrate Judges, the challenges and rewards of the position, and how to apply for the job. Magistrate Judges from the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York as well as the chairs of the screening panel in each district will share their experiences and knowledge at this breakfast panel.
- Hon. Ronald Ellis, United States Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York
- Hon. Peggy Kuo, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York (AABANY Member)
- Hon. Barbara Moses, United States Magistrate Judge, Southern District of New York
- Hon. Ramon E. Reyes, Jr., United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York
- Robert L. Begleiter, Chair, Magistrate Judge Selection Panel, Eastern District of New York
- Bettina Plevan, Chair, Magistrate Judge Selection Panel, Southern District of New York
Click here to register.
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When: Dec. 7, 7:30pm-9:00pm
Where: Sullivan & Cromwell
Join AABANY's leadership by chairing a Committee.
Interested in co-chairing an AABANY committee? Come meet the current co-chairs of 26 AABANY Committees, learn about what they do, and how to apply for open co-chair positions for the 2017-2018 term. Light refreshments will be served.
Click here to register.
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The Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program (“SCS JIP”) is now accepting applications for its LAW SCHOOL DIVISION.
The Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program seeks to cultivate and develop future leaders by placing students in judicial internships in state and federal courts in New York City. Our goal is to increase diversity in the legal profession by educating and empowering students from underserved communities and diverse backgrounds.
The Law School Division application can be found here or at www.scsjip.org. All applications must be in by 5pm ET on December 30, 2016 to be considered.
IMPORTANT: You must complete this linked application as well as send in your supplemental materials before the deadline to be considered.
Note: High school division applications will be available February 1, 2017.
For more info visit www.scsjip.org or email info@scsjip.org.
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The Judiciary Committee has created a clerkship directory to gather information about our members who may be willing to act as future resources and/or ultimately want to become a judge. If you've ever clerked for a judge, please take a minute to fill out this survey and forward to others: http://bit.ly/aabanyclerks
We appreciate your help!
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AABANY’s Student Outreach Committee is excited to launch a group membership rate for APALSA members. For a group rate of $100, AABANY will offer your APALSA members free one-year memberships. This group rate covers all AABANY events, including free and discounted CLE and non-CLE programs, AABANY’s Mentorship Program and Diversity Career Fair & Expo at the Annual Fall Conference.
This is a huge discount given that the regular rate for law students is $15 for individual members. For APALSA members who are already dues-paying members, participation in this group rate will extend current memberships by another year. If you are interested in participating, please have one representative from your respective APALSA reach out to Keli Huang (keli.huang@gmail.com) for further instruction.
The deadline to sign up for this membership rate is December 1, 2016. After December 1, the membership rate will no longer be available.
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The New York City Bar Association is offering discounted membership to AABANY members. They will waive your one-time admission fee and give you 20% off your first membership dues payment. Membership dues are dependent on your earliest year of admission in any state or country.
Click here to take advantage of this great deal.
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Interested in future speaking opportunities? Join the confidential AABANY Speakers Bureau if you're open to raising your profile and sharing your expertise. Click here to access the form.
AABANY regularly receives requests from AABANY Committee Chairs and other bar associations for speakers to speak on various legal topics. This form is designed to collect information from our membership and engage those who are most interested in sharing their knowledge and expertise with various legal audiences.
We respect your privacy. All information disclosed will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. Email main@aabany.org if you have any questions.
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Interested in moving your legal career forward? Launched at the 2013 Fall Conference, the Career Placement Committee seeks to match qualified AABANY members with available legal positions.
The new Career Placement Committee Intake Form is now available. Click here to help us help you. Feel free to also email your resumes and CVs to resume@aabany.org.
All information disclosed will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Career Placement Committee at careers@aabany.org.
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Judge seeks volunteer attorneys/law grads with experience in criminal, landlord-tenant or consumer debt matters. Judge presides on appellate cases and also handles some civil Supreme Court matters.
Full-time or four days per week preferred, but flexible schedule can be arranged. A wonderful learning and mentee opportunity, as well as an excellent resume-enhancer. Although not guaranteed, many of former volunteers have moved onto paying legal positions. Opportunity to enhance research/writing and oral skills.
Willing to fill out paperwork for paid fellowships, if necessary. Rolling deadline. Opportunities open year round.
Please send cover letter, resume, short writing sample, and references by email to:
Rebecca Wohl, riwohl@nycourts.gov
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Applications are now being accepted for AABANY’s 2016 Legal Internship Program. Open to college students, law students and law grads, AABANY is looking for a few talented, energetic and motivated interns to help plan and organize AABANY programs and events, provide research and administrative assistance and perform other tasks and assignments to advance and promote AABANY’s mission. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. For full details and information on how to apply go to bit.ly/Lgl_Intrn_Details.
Please direct any questions to Executive Director Yang Chen at yang.chen@aabany.org.
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 In this Issue:
- 2016 Norman Lau Kee Trailblazer Sylvia Chin
- Letter from President Susan Shin
- AABANY at NAPABA 2016 Northeast Regional Conference
- Summer and Fall 2016 Highlights
- Sponsor Spotlight: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
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Fellowship announcements can be found on AABANY's website under Resources, in the sub-menu item "Fellowships." To see current announcements for Fellowships go to http://bit.ly/aabany_flwshps.
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- Nov. 21: AABANY co-sponsors FALA New York's Human Trafficking CLE Panel, 6:30pm-8pm. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 21: IP Committee Thanksgiving Dinner, 7pm-9pm. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 29: AABANY co-sponsors Basics of 1031 Exchange and Updates on Title Insurance Clearance, 5:30pm-7pm. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 30: AABANY cosponsors: Is this the real life? Virtual and Augmented Reality, 6:30pm-8:45pm. For more information, click here.
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- Nov. 23: DEADLINE TO APPLY: CJA Mentoring Program in the EDNY. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 24: MBBA Thanksgiving Day Event, 11am-2pm. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 30: Law & Reorder Lunch & Learn - Career Advice from the Top, 12pm-2pm. For more information, click here.
- Nov. 30: NJSBA Diversity Committee Reception for the Son of Late Justice Thurgood Marshall, 3pm-5pm. For more information, click here.
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- Senior Director of Legal Services, Her Justice, New York
- Special Construction Counsel, MTA Capital Construction, New York
- Temporary Staff Attorney - Immigration Law Unit, Legal Aid Society, New York
- Assistant Counsel - Director of Policy, Office of People with Developmental Disabilities, Albany
For more information on these listings and other open positions go to the AABANY Career Center. Members must be signed in to have access to the Career Center. Either search by keyword or just hit "Search" at the bottom of the form to see a complete listing of jobs.
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