2017 Annual Dinner - Asian American Bar Association of New York

2017 Annual Dinner

AABANY 28th Anniversary Year Take Charge \| Lead Change Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Cipriani Wall Street 55 Wall Street New York, NY 10005-2805
SPONSORS	HONOREES
Diamond Summit Financial Platinum Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz White & Case LLP Gold Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Levine Lee LLP Silver Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Baker McKenzie LLP BakerHostetler Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Dechert LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Hubbell Incorporated K&L Gates LLP Kobre & Kim LLP Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Littler Mendelson, P.C. Manion Gaynor & Manning LLP McCarter & English, LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Park Jensen Bennett LLP Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Perkins Coie LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Reed Smith LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Sidley Austin LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Thompson Hine LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Wiggin and Dana LLP Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP WilmerHale Winston & Strawn LLP Sponsors Credit Suisse Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C. Herrick, Feinstein LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Lee Anav Chung White Kim Ruger & Richter LLP Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP Parkin Lee, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, The Rockefeller Group Seyfarth Shaw LLP	Eric Schneiderman Attorney General for the State of New York Public Service Leadership Award - Lee Cheng Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Gibson Brands Corporate Leadership Award - Marilyn Go United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York Impact Leadership Award - White & Case LLP Law Firm Diversity Award - SPEECH BY OUTGOING PRESIDENT SUSAN SHIN
DISTINGUISHED GUESTS	PHOTOGRAPHS
We were honored by the attendance of many distinguished judges, bar association leaders, and other dignitaries including: Diane Gujarati – Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York Sanket Bulsara – Acting General Counsel, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Eric Schneiderman – Attorney General, State of New York Manisha Sheth, Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice Eric Gonzalez – Acting District Attorney, Kings County Hon. Denny Chin – 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Hon. Pamela Chen – Eastern District of New York Hon. Kiyo Matsumoto – United States District Judge, Eastern District of New York Hon. Peggy Kuo – United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York Hon. Marilyn Go – United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York Hon. Peter Tom – Acting Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, 1st Dept Hon. Randall Eng – Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, 2d Dept. Hon. James d’Auguste – Supreme Court, Civil, New York Hon. Lucy Billings - Supreme Court, Civil, New York Hon. David B. Cohen – Supreme Court, Civil, New York Hon. Robert Reed – Supreme Court, Civil, New York Hon. Alexander Tisch – Supreme Court, Civil, New York Hon. Margaret Chan - New York City Civil Court, New York County Hon. Judy Kim – New York City Civil Court, New York County Hon. Javier Vargas – New York City Civil Court, Bronx County Hon. Lillian Wan – Interim Civil Court Judge for Kings County Hon. Phyllis Chu - New York City Criminal Court Hon. Melissa Crane - New York City Criminal Court, New York Hon. Gilbert Hong – Kings County Criminal Court Hon. Kevin McGrath – New York City Criminal Court Hon. Lisa Sokoloff – New York City Criminal Court, New York County Bridgette Ahn – President, KALAGNY Allison Alcasabas – National Filipino American Lawyers Association, NE Regional Governor Rahat Babar – NAPABA Northeast Regional Governor Vincent Chang – Vice President, AALFNY and Treasurer of NYCLA Sylvia Chin – President, AALFNY Han Choi – Secretary, NAPABA Law Foundation Steve Choi – Executive Director, New York Immigration Coalition Jhanice V. Dhomingo – President, National Filipino American Lawyers Association Paul Edgar – President, Metropolitan Black Bar Association Lillian Ling – Assistant Director for AALDEF Jin Hwang – Immediate Past President, NAPABA Daniel Jo – Immediate Past President CAPABA Ingrid Festin – VP, CAPABA Vichal Kumar, President, South Asian Bar Association of North America Jean Lee – President & CEO of Minority Corporate Counsel Association Andrea Louie – Executive Director, Asian American Arts Alliance Amy Lin Meyerson – NAPABA Law Foundation President Connie Montoya – President, FALA-New York Christine Neeman – President-Elect of APALA-NJ Kim Parker, Executive Director, MBBA Mahesh Parlikad – President, SABANY Hong Qu – Board President, Asian American Arts Alliance Frank Seddio – President, Brooklyn Bar Association and Kings County Democratic Chairman E.J. Thorsen – President, Queen’s County Women’s Bar Association Kyung Yoon – Executive Director, Korean American Community Foundation	Photographs by Corky Lee - Photographs by Karen Zhou PRINT Click on the above image of the cover to view the Annual Dinner Program in PDF. Click on the above image to see the invitation in PDF. Designs by Kim Chau Click on the image above to read the Annual Dinner Issue of The AABANY Advocate.

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