AABANY 34th Anniversary Year 

Embracing Wellness and Well-Being

 

Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-2805

SPONSORS

HONOREES

After-Party

• Morrow Sodali

Diamond

• Broadridge

Pre-Dinner GC Reception

• Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Platinum

• Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
• Levine Lee LLP
• Littler Mendelson P.C.
• Mayer Brown LLP
• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 

Gold

• Allen & Overy
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Silver

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Alston & Bird LLP
• Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
• Baker & Hostetler LLP
• Charter Communications
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Cooley LLP
• Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
• Crowell & Moring LLP
• Eisner LLP
• First Republic Bank
• Fox Rothschild LLP
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
• Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
• Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP
• Haug Partners LLP
• King & Spalding LLP
• Kobre & Kim LLP
• Latham & Watkins LLP
• Morgan Stanley
• Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP
• Morrison & Foerster LLP
• O'Melveny & Myers LLP
• Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
• Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
• Paul Hastings LLP
• Perkins Coie LLP
• Proskauer Rose LLP
• QBE North America
• Ropes & Gray LLP
• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Vinson & Elkins LLP
• White & Case LLP
• Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Bronze

• Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
• Davis + Gilbert LLP
• Dechert LLP
• Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
• FTI Consulting, Inc.
• Haynes and Boone, LLP
• Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP
• Mintz & Gold LLP
• Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
• Quarles & Brady LLP
• Reed Smith LLP
• Sidley Austin LLP
• Venable LLP

Michael C. Wu
Chief Legal Officer
Bath & Body Works, Inc.

Corporate Leadership Award

 Charles Ellis Schumer
U.S. Senator for New York

Impact Leadership Award

Prisca Bae
Chief Partnerships Officer
The Asian American Foundation

Women's Leadership Award

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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Law Firm Diversity Award

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

VIDEOS

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

• Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer, US Senate, Majority Leader, D-NY
• Hon. Denny Chin, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• Hon. Lorna Schofield, U.S. District Court, SDNY
• Hon. Sanket Bulsara, US District Court, EDNY
• Hon. James Cho, U.S. District Court, EDNY
• Hon. Diane Gujurati, U.S. District Court, EDNY
• Hon. Peggy Kuo, U.S. District Court, EDNY
• Hon. Kiyo Matsumoto, U.S. District Court, EDNY
• Hon. Marilyn Go, (Retired) U.S. District Court, EDNY
• Hon. Lillian Wan , Associate Justice, Appellate Division, Second Department, NYS
• Hon. Ariel Chesler, Supreme Court, New York County
• Hon. James D'Auguste, Supreme Court, New York County
• Hon. Philip Hom, Supreme Court, Queens County
• Hon. Robert Reed, Supreme Court, New York County
• Hon. Alexander Tisch, Supreme Court, New York County
• Hon. Javier Vargas, Court of Claims, New York County
• Hon. Shahabuddeen Ally, Acting Supreme Court Justice, Supervising Judge, Civil Court of the City of New York, and AAJANY (Asian American Judges Assoc. of New York) President
• Hon. Judy Kim, Acting Supreme Court Justice and New York City Civil Court 
• Hon. Anar Patel, Acting Supreme Court Justice, Westchester County
• Hon. Rina Gurung, Housing Court, New York City Civil Court, Bronx County
• Hon. Karen Lin, New York City Civil Court, Queens County
• Hon. E. Grace Park, Family Court, Bronx County Civil Court
• Hon. James Clynes, New York City Criminal Court, New York County
• Hon. Ashlee Crawford, New York City Criminal Court, Bronx County
• Sandra Leung, President of NAPABA (National Asian Pacific American Bar Assoc.)
• Anna Mercado Clark, President-Elect of NAPABA (National Asian Pacific American Bar Assoc.)
• Vincent Chang, President of NYCLA (New York County Lawyers Association)
• Carl Forbes Jr. , President of MBBA (Metropolitan Black Bar Association)
• Gene Kang, President of KALAGNY (Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York)
• Lawrence Han, President-Elect of KALAGNY (Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York)
• Rippi Karda, President of SABA-NJ (South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey)
• Adrienne B.  Koch, President-Elect of NYCLA (New York County Lawyers Association)

Anti-Asian Violence Task Force & Guests

• David Chiang
• Sylvia Chin
• Elaine Chiu
• Megan Gao
• Jen Gong
• Jeffrey Gu
• Chris Kwok
• James Lin
• Noel Quintana
• Jennifer Wu
• Karen Yau
• Jess Zhao
• Michael Zhu