AABANY 29th Anniversary Year

Serving Our Community, Advancing Our Profession

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-2805

SPONSORS

HONOREES

Diamond

• Summit Financial

Platinum

• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
  

Gold

• Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
• Charter Communications
• Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
• Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
• Levine Lee LLP
• Paul Hastings
• Schulte Roth

Silver

Mark Steffensen
SEVP & General Counsel
HSBC North America Holdings Inc.

Corporate Leadership Award

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Hon. Goodwin Liu
Associate Justice
Supreme Court of California 

Impact Award

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Kathy Hirata Chin
Senior Counsel
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Women's Leadership Award

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Alphonso David
Counsel to the Governor
State of New York

Public Service Leadership Award

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 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Law Firm Diversity Award

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

PHOTOGRAPHS

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

• Hon. Denny Chin, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• Hon. Kiyo A. Matsumoto, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Marilyn D. Go, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Peggy Kuo, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Sanket Bulsara, United States Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Randall Eng, Former Presiding Justice - Appellate Division, Second Department
• Hon. Jeffrey Oing, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department, Supreme Court
• Hon. Rosalyn Richter, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department, Supreme Court
• Hon. Peter Tom, Associate Justice, Appellate Division, First Department, Supreme Court
• Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan, Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department, Supreme Court

• Hon. Phyllis Chu, Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. James d’Auguste, Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County
• Hon. Bruna DiBiase, Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. Lucy Billings, Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County
• Hon. Wilma Guzman, New York Supreme Court, Bronx County; President-Elect of the Puerto Rican Bar Association of New York
• Hon. Phillip Hom, Civil Court, City of New York, Queens County
• Hon. Gilbert C. Hong, Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. Judy Kim, Criminal Court, City of New York, New York County
• Hon. Donald Leo, Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. Kevin McGrath - Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. Raja Rajeswari - Criminal Court, City of New York
• Hon. Robert Reed - Supreme Court, Civil Branch, New York County
• Hon. Mary V. Rosado - Civil Court, City of New York, New York County
• Hon. Toko Serita - New York City Criminal Court, Queens County
• Hon. Richard A. Tsai - New York City Civil Court, New York County
• Hon. Lillian Wan - Family Court, City of New York, Kings County
• Hon. Frances Wang - New York City Civil Court and Criminal Court

• Frank Seddio, County Leader, Brooklyn Democratic Party
• Ally A. Shahabuddeen, President, Manhattan Community Board 12
• Jack Chan, President-Elect, Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey
• Vincent Chang, Vice President, New York County Lawyers Association; past president of AABANY
• Victor Diune, NAPABA Northeast Regional Governor
• Hillary Gingold, President, Network of Bar Leader
• Karen Kim, President, KALAGNY
• Glenn Lau-Kee, Former NYSBA President, past AABANY President
• Jean Lee, President & CEO, Minority Corporate Counsel Association; former AABANY President
• Ling D. Ly, President, Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Vincent J. Roldan, President, Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York
• Amol Sinha, President, South Asian Bar Association of New York; Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey