Please join Columbia Law APALSA at our 10th Annual Conference, held virtually via Zoom on March 20, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 3:30PM EST. This year's conference is generously co-sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY). Each year, CLS APALSA holds this event so that law students and young attorneys can hear from experienced Asian lawyers and learn about Asian perspectives in the legal profession. This year’s conference is titled "Writing Your Own Script” and we hope that you will be able to join us. Due to the unfortunate COVID circumstances, we will not be holding a gala after the conference this year. Here is the link to register for the conference. 

Please find below the conference schedule so that you can get a sense of which segments of the conference you may be able to attend. We thank you for your time and continued support of CLS APALSA, and we look forward to welcoming you to our conference. If you have any questions or need accommodations, please email Long Dang (lpd2123@columbia.edu) or Yae Rin Kim (yk2858@columbia.edu). 

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM EST

Check-in

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

Panel 1 Asian American Experience in the U.S. (Anti-Asian Violence & Public Health Crisis)

Featuring AABANY members Yang Chen (AABANY Executive Director), Karen Kithan Yau (Co-Chai of AABANY Pro Bono and Community Service Committee), Karen King (Vice Chair of AABANY Pro Bono and Community Service Committee), and William Lee (Vice Chair of AABANY Student Outreach Committee)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

Panel 2 Asian Practitioners in Different Jurisdictions/Industries

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EST

Lunch Break

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM EST

Panel 3 Keynote Speaker Charles Yu (winner of the National Book Award for Fiction)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST

Panel 4 Cross-generational Fireside Chat

Featuring AABANY members Sarah Seo (past co-chair of the Academic Committee), Denny Chin (past  AABANY President), and Kathy Hirata Chin (esteemed AABANY member, who, with Judge Chin, has been leading the AABANY Trial Reenactment project since 2007)

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM EST

Networking Session with Kirkland and Skadden attorneys

Sign up here for the networking session with Kirkland. Sign up here for the networking session with Skadden. We request that you only sign up for one networking session.