2012 AABANY ANNUAL DINNER

Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-2805

SPONSORS

HONOREES

Platinum

• Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
• Liberty International Underwriters
• Prudential
• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Gold

• Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
• Hess Corporation
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Proskauer Rose LLP
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Wilmer Hale

Susan L. Blount
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Prudential Financial, Incorporated

Saru Jayaraman
Co-Director and Co-Founder
Restaurant Opportunities Center

Samuel Reeves
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Walmart US Legal

Silver

• Arnold & Porter LLP
• Baker & McKenzie
• Chadbourne & Parke, LLP
• Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Clifford Chance LLP
• Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
• Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Dechert LLP
• Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
• Duane Morris/Lee Anav Chung
• Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
• Kaye Scholer LLP
• Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
• Kobre & Kim LLP
• McCarter & English, LLP
• MetLife
• Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
• Ropes & Gray LLP
• Seyfarth Shaw LLP
• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
• Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
• White & Case LLP
• Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
• Winston & Strawn LLP

Sponsors

• Donohue and Donohue
• Guerrero Yee LLP
• Herrick, Feinstein LLP
• Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
• Loanzon Sheikh LLC
• Varghese & Associates, P.C.
• Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP
• Yoon & Kim LLP

Photos above by Steven Wu.

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DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

AALDEF: Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Hon. Nancy Bannon (Judge-Civil Court of the City of NY)
Hon. Antonio Brandveen (Supreme Court, Nassau County)
Hon. Anthony Cannataro (NYC Civil Court)
Hon. Margaret Chan (Civil Court, New York County)
Hon. Denny Chin (United States District Court, SDNY)
James Cho, President, KALAGNY: Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York
Hon. Danny Chun (Kings County Supreme Court)
Alfred Cooper (Alfred D. Cooper, Esq. P.C.)
Joe Gim, (representing Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., Richmond County District Attorney’s Office)
Hon. Marilyn Go (United States District Court, EDNY)
Julina Guo, Constituent Liaison, Office of United States Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand
Hon. Gilbert Hong (NYS Civil Court)
Sarah Izfar, MuBANY: The Muslim Bar Association of New York
Glenn A. Jacobson Jewish Lawyers Guild
Hon. Debra A. James (NYS Supreme Court)
Hon. Robert Kalish (Criminal Court, Kings County)
Hon. Michael Katz (Family Court, Kings County)
Grace Ku (representing the Office of Assemblymember Grace Meng)
Tommy Lin (representing the Office of the Public Advocate, Bill de Blasio)
Hon. Doris Ling Cohan (Supreme Ct, Civil Branch, New York County)
Betty Lugo, NYSBA: New York State Bar Association (co-chair of NYSBA’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion)
Hon. Kevin B. McGrath, Jr. (Criminal Court Judge of the City of New York)
Kin W.Ng, Chief of Training (representing Charles J. Hynes, Kings County District Attorney’s Office)
Hon. Jeffrey Oing (NY Supreme Court)
Ravi Rajan, Board Chair, Asian American Arts Alliance
Hon. Robert Reed (New York City Civil Court)
Hon. Martin Shulman (Supreme Court Appellate Term, First Department)
Hon. George Bundy Smith
Hon. Janice A. Taylor (Supreme Court of the State of NY)
Hon. Alexander Tisch (Criminal Court, New York County)
Hon. Peter Tom (Appellate Division, Supreme Court, New York County)
Jmmy Yan, General Counsel (representing the Office of the Manhattan Borough President, Scott Stringer)
Paul Yoon, President Elect, APALANJ: The Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey
Rosemary Yu, (representing Cyrus A. Vance, Jr. New York County District Attorney’s Office)
MinKwon Center for Community Action
Puerto Rican Bar Association

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