AABANY 33rd Anniversary Year 

Forging a New Path to an Equitable Future

 

Thursday, April 28, 2022
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-2805

SPONSORS

HONOREES

Diamond

• Broadridge
• Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Platinum

• Allen & Overy LLP
• Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
• Littler Mendelson P.C.
• Mayer Brown LLP
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Gold

• Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
• Levine Lee LLP
• PepsiCo
• Shearman & Sterling LLP

Silver

Flora W. Feng
Senior Legal Director,
Global Intellectual Property,
PepsiCo

Corporate Leadership Award

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Emily A. Kim
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Zeta Charter Schools

Women's Leadership Award

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 Allen & Overy LLP
Law Firm Diversity Award

VIDEOS

Governor Kathy Hochul

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

We were honored by the attendance of many distinguished judges, bar association leaders, and other dignitaries including:

• New York Governor Kathy Hochul

• Hon. Denny Chin, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

• Hon. Diane Gujarati, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York

• Hon. Pamela Chen, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York

• Hon. Lillian Wan, New York Supreme Court, Kings County

• Hon. Donald Leo, New York Supreme Court, Kings County

• Hon. Margaret Chan, New York Supreme Court, New York County

• Hon. Robert Reed, New York Supreme Court, New York County

• Hon. James E. d’Auguste, New York Supreme Court, New York County

• Hon. Bruna DiBiase, New York Supreme Court, Queens County

• Hon. Wyatt N. Gibbons, New York Supreme Court, Queens County

• Hon. Toko Serita, New York Supreme Court, Queens County

• Hon. Shahabuddeen Ally, New York City Civil Court, New York County and President of AAJANY

• Hon. Christopher Chin, New York City Civil Court, New York County

• Hon. Richard Tsai, New York City Civil Court, New York County

• Hon. John Zhuo Wang, New York City Civil Court, New York County

• Hon. Judy Kim, New York City Civil Court, New York County

• Hon. Wendy Li, New York City Civil Court, Queens County

• Hon. Shorab Ibrahim, New York City Housing Court, Bronx County

• Hon. Vidya Pappachan, New York City Criminal Court, Bronx County

• Hon. Giyang An, New York City Criminal Court, Bronx County

• Hon. Joanne Watters, New York City Criminal Court, Queens County

• Hon. Curtis Farber, New York City Criminal Court, Kings County

• Hon. Gilbert Hong, New York City Criminal Court, Kings County

• Hon. Kevin McGrath, New York City Criminal Court, New York County

• Hon. Kate Paek, New York City Criminal Court, New York County

• Hon. Phyllis Chu, New York City Criminal Court, New York County

• Hon. James Clynes, New York City Criminal Court, New York County

• Hon. Biju Koshy, New York City Criminal Court, Richmond County

• Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan (retired), New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Dept, Appellate Term

• Linda Sun, Deputy Chief of Staff, Governor Kathy Hochul

• Sanda Ung, NYC Councilwoman, 20th Council District

• Kevin Kim, NYC Department of Small Business Services

• David Chiang, Section Chief, Queens District Attorney's Office

• Beverly Ma, Deputy Chief of Staff, Bronx County District Attorney's Office

• Eve Guillergan, Network of Bar Leaders President

• Vincent Chang, New York County Lawyers Association President

• Austin D'Souza, SABANY President

• Jon Lim, FALANY Recording Secretary

• Louise Lingat, FALANY Membership Secretary

• Shirley Ng, AALDEF Community Organizer

• Jerry Vattamala, AALDEF Director of the Democracy Program

• Gene Kang, KALAGNY President

• Dan Brody, CAPABA President

• Sylvia Chin, President, AALFNY

• Priya Purandare, NAPABA Executive Director

• Kristin Haugen, NAPABA Director

• James Lee, NAPABA Northeast Regional Governor

• Anna Mercado Clark, NAPABA NE Regional Governor