Join us in taking charge and leading change at our 2017 Annual Dinner! Registration is now open.
The deadline to sponsor our 2017 Annual Dinner is January 31, 2017. Please see the sponsorship packet for details. If you've never sponsored our dinner before, consider the benefits:
Tickets for our most anticipated event of the year
Recognition of your firm or company's sponsorship throughout the year in our marketing materials
Yearlong memberships for your attorneys, through which they can enjoy discounted and free events throughout the year
We hope to see you all there for a night of celebration and forward thinking. This year, we are proud to honor Attorney General for the State of New York Eric Schneiderman,Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Gibson Brands Lee Cheng, and Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York Marilyn Go.
Cipriani Wall Street, 55 Wall Street, New York, NY
February 22, 2017
Black-Tie Preferred
6:00 PM // VIP Cocktail Reception (Cipriani Library)
6:00 PM // Cocktail Reception
7:00 PM // Dinner and Awards Program
9:30 PM // After Party
Please join the Litigation Committee for Discovery and Investigations, a CLE event with two panels of experts, co-sponsored with Fordham Law, Consilio, and the Chinese Business Lawyers Association. This event will take place on January 24, 2017 from 6:30pm to 9pm in the Costantino Room - Second Floor at Fordham Law School (150 W 62nd Street).
Document collection and discovery has become an increasingly important and fraught issue in China. U.S. litigations often require the collection and review of documents in China in ways that conflict with Chinese laws, such as laws on state secrecy and financial privacy. How can discovery be conducted in China while avoiding legal, financial, and ethical problems? And what about internal investigations, which often require reviews of sensitive documents and materials, which may also implicate Chinese laws and regulations? This event will discuss the challenges and solutions in both internal investigations in China and also document discovery in China as part of U.S. litigations.
We’ve done Soul Cycle. We’ve done Krav Maga. We’ve done a Running Club and Yoga. Now it’s time for … ballroom dancing! Bring out your inner Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers. Get your Dancing with the Stars groove on.
By special arrangement with Dancing Classrooms, AABANY members and friends are invited for an evening of networking over wine and cheese with ballroom dance lessons given by Dancing Classrooms Executive Director Rodney Lopez.
On January 12, AABANY President Susan Shin submitted a letter to NYSBA President Claire Gutekunst which began:
On September 14, 2016, the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) submitted the attached letter to the Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin to express its support of a separate diversity, inclusion and anti-bias continuing legal education (“D&I CLE”) requirement. This letter is attached hereto for your reference. For the reasons stated below, AABANY remains steadfast in its support of this requirement and urges the swift adoption and implementation of the D&I CLE requirement.
Hong Yen Chang was the first Chinese American admitted to the bar in New York in 1888. Six years earlier, the United States Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, making all Chinese ineligible for United States citizenship, in a public climate laden with racism and xenophobia. New York State required that applicants for bar admission to be citizens. Mr. Chang was admitted only after a special legislative exception was made by the New York state legislature. Two years later, he moved to California and applied to be admitted to the bar there – but he was denied due to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
To read the rest of the letter sent to President Claire Gutekunst of the New York State Bar Association, click here.
To read the original support letter sent to Hon. Ellerin, click here.
One of the objectives of the Agenda is the “We Are All Immigrants” Initiative which is being launched to expand opportunity and empower immigrants in New York. It features a comprehensive package of proposals, including the Empire State Immigrant Defense Fund. Governor Cuomo will launch this first-in-the-nation, state-led, public-private legal defense project to ensure that all New Yorkers have access to representation and due process, regardless of their citizenship status. This initiative will be administered by the State’s Office for New Americans in partner
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