In This Edition
- Marking the 30th Anniversary of AABANY’s Founding
- Join AABANY for the 2019 Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF), July 30-31
- Negotiating The Commercial Lease: Both from the Landlord and Tenant Perspective, July 31
- Asia Practice Committee Dinner Social, August 6
- AABANY Outing: Yankees Game, August 16
- AABANY Annual Picnic, August 17
- Pro Bono Clinic Call For Volunteers
- Applications Now Open for the 2019-2020 AABANY Leadership Development Program
- Applications are now being Accepted for the 2019-2020 Don H. Liu Scholars Program
- Highlights:Week of July 22
- NAPABA Northeast Regional/AABANY Fall Conference on Sept. 21, 2019
- Join AABANY to Support Portrait Project 2.0
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Join the AABANY Community Response Task Force
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AABANY Clerkship Directory
- Discounted Membership - New York City Bar Association
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AABANY Speakers Bureau
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Career Placement Committee Intake Form Now Available
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NAPABA News
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Wanted: Volunteer Attorney/Law Grads for Appellate Court Judge
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AABANY Seeks Legal Interns
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Read AABANY's 2018 Year End Report
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This Week on WE Blog @AABANY
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Fellowship Announcements
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Upcoming Events on the AABANY Calendar
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Other Events on the AABANY Calendar
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Recent Job Postings on the AABANY Career Center
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Please join us in celebrating AABANY’s founding date on July 28, 1989—30 years ago. On this day, Steve T. Min, as Incorporator, filed a Certificate of Incorporation on behalf of AABANY with the State of New York. Then, on October 20, 1989 AABANY’s incorporation was announced, and attorneys interested in learning about AABANY were invited to an inaugural reception at New York University Law School on November 9, 1989.
We acknowledge with respect and gratitude Tony Cheh, Rockwell Chin, Glenn Ikeda, Yat T. Man, Steve Min, Serene K. Nakano, and many others for their visionary actions in establishing AABANY. Thank you to all of our past and present Presidents, Board Members, Committee Chairs, members, and friends for their continual support in improving the study and practice of law, and the fair administration of justice for all by ensuring the meaningful participation of Asian-Americans in the legal profession. Now one of the most prominent and active minority bar associations in New York, AABANY has well over 1,200 members, including practicing attorneys in the private and public sectors, in-house lawyers, judges, professors, and law students.
We thank everyone who is or has been a member of AABANY over the course of the last 30 years, and we invite to join our association everyone who shares AABANY’s mission of advancing Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, South Asians and all diverse and under-represented groups in the legal profession in New York.
We encourage all non-members to take advantage of our vast network of attorneys and judges, our twenty-seven different committees, as well as the numerous CLE opportunities that we offer to our members. Please click here to either renew or sign up as an AABANY member.
To view the certificate of incorporation, please click here.
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AABANY will be co-sponsoring three film screenings with Asian CineVision for the 2019 Asian American International Film Festival this summer. These three film screenings include:
Please click the links to register and learn more about the films. AABANY members will receive a discount code once they register for the event on the AABANY website.
For full details on these events, please view the blog post here.
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AABANY will be co-sponsoring this event along with KALAGNY, Hellenic Lawyers Association, Big Apple Abstract, and Flushing Bank. Presenting will be Amol Pachnanda, Esq. Partner at Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, et al., and Co-Chair of AABANY's Real Estate Committee.
Online registration is available until, July 29th, at 11:59 PM.
To view more details and to sign up, click here.
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Join Asia Practice Committee to dine and chat about upcoming events like the joint event we will have with Supchina on December 4, 2019.
Celebrate New Yorker's favorite past time -- dining out -- with fellow Asia Practice committee members. We will enjoy a special dinner prix fixe menu at the legendary Brazilian Steak House. Enjoy continuous tableside service of delicious Brazilian barbeque. Registrant will pay $20 each for the dinner; the rest will be generously sponsored by the Asia Practice Committee.
*All other drinks, soda, coffee will be the responsibility of the diner*
Asia Practice Committee Dinner Social
Fogo De Chao, 40 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019
Aug 6 (Tuesday), 2019
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Hosted by APC Co-Chairs: Chris Kwok, Jian Wu, Alex Hao, and Conlyn Chan
Please meet us at 6:30 pm sharp to be seated.
Registration is limited to 15 people, registrants will pay $20 towards the cost of dinner. First come first serve! Look forward to seeing you there! Any questions, please contact Conlyn at conlynchan@gmail.com or Chris at chrismkwok@gmail.com
To sign up for this event, please click here and click on 'Register.'
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Come out for a night of baseball, fun, and networking with AABANY Members. Tickets are for the Standing Room section with one drink included (Beer, soda, bottled water). The event is co-sponsored by Membership and Prosecutors Committees. Thank you to Esquire Depositions Solutions for sponsoring the event!
For Members, there is a four ticket limit per person. Members can buy at the member price for non-members.
For Non-Members, there is a two ticket limit per person.
Registration is already over halfway full! To view more details and to sign up, click here.
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The Young Lawyers Committee and Litigation Committee invite you to join us for AABANY's Annual Picnic on August 17, 2019. We will spend the afternoon basking in the summer sun, enjoying tasty food, and playing fun games. Please feel free to invite friends and family!
When: Saturday August 17, 2019, 11 am-4 pm
Where: Heckscher picnic area, Central Park
Note: The Heckscher picnic area is accessible from the 65th Street Transverse
To sign up for this event, please click here.
Please register using the link above by August 14th.
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The AABANY Legal Advice Clinic offers members the opportunity to volunteer and provide valuable advice to community members. We are seeking volunteers for our next clinic on August 14th, 2019.
If you plan to volunteer at the clinic, please email Volunteer Coordinator, Asako by Friday, August 9th to register. Your advance registration will be essential for our smooth clinic operation. Please do NOT depend on your friends/colleagues to register for you.
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Our legal advice clinic will be held at the community room on the ground floor, 33 Bowery Street, New York, NY 10002 (NOT 3 Bowery Street).
For more details on volunteering, please contact Asako at Asako.Aiba@aabany.org.
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AABANY’s Leadership Development Program (ALDP) is a 6-month long interactive leadership training course that is focused on cultivating AABANY members who are senior attorneys through the promotion process within law firms, companies and the government. In 2018, we successfully launched our law firm partnership track program focused on guiding a selected group of APA law firm associates on the partnership track (please click here to learn more about ALDP). This year, we are expanding ALDP to include an in-house counsel track program to guide a small group of qualified senior APA in-house counsel into senior management positions within their organizations (e.g., SVP, Deputy GC or GC).
Applications are now open and must be submitted no later than 11:59pm on Wednesday, July 31. For more details, click here.
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AABANY is proud to announce that applications for the Don H. Liu Scholars Program are now open. The Program was founded in 2014 by two past presidents of AABANY. The Program seeks to identify and cultivate future Asian American leaders in the legal community to address the single most important reality facing Asian American professionals today: the barrier to advancement. This year, the Selection Committee will select up to three scholars. Each scholar will be awarded $15,000 each and have access to prominent mentors, including Don H. Liu, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Risk Officer of Target Corporation. The Program will also provide assistance in career development, including identifying potential internships.
Details and more information about the Program can be found at http://www.donhliuscholars.org.
For more details on the application process and eligibility requirements, please find the application package here: http://www.donhliuscholars.org/application/. To read AABANY's full press release, click here.
Application materials are due by 11:59pm (Eastern Standard Time), November 1, 2019.
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AABANY is pleased to announce that the 2019 Fall Conference will take place on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Fordham Law School, and we are excited that it will also be the NAPABA Northeast Regional Conference. Program submission closed on June 7. Sponsorship package now available here. A block of rooms has been reserved at Empire Hotel, 44 West 63rd Street, New York, at a discounted rate. The room block will be available until Aug. 30 at 5 p.m. ET or until the block has sold out. If you have any questions, email us at fall.conference@aabany.org.
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A recent Law360 article entitled “Why Are Law Clerks So White” reported:
Take any five federal law clerks, and at least four of them would probably be white. And nobody can be certain why.
California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu has some guesses about the reasons black, Asian and Latino lawyers are largely shut out of these prestigious positions that can turbocharge a lawyer’s early career. But he says it’s impossible to pinpoint reasons or patterns because so little data exists.
“We actually don’t even know the most basic things about those opportunities,” Justice Liu told Law360. “It would be interesting if we could know even basic things, like do women judges get more women clerks? We have impressions of that, but we don’t know with any precision whether these things are true.”
The article went on to talk about how Justice Liu plans to address these questions in Portrait Project 2.0. AABANY is supporting this research as a Silver Sponsor. AABANY challenges its members to donate to Portrait Project 2.0. AABANY will match member donations up to $5,000. Join AABANY in advancing the work of Portrait Project 2.0. Read more by clicking here
To read the full Law360 article go here
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| AABANY’s Issues Committee is pleased to invite you to join the newly formed AABANY Community Response Task Force! The Community Response Task Force (CRTF) is AABANY’s answer to the rapidly changing legal landscape and the need for quick, effective, and coordinated responses to the emergent issues that affect our communities. AABANY is firmly committed to being a strong voice and steadfast advocate on behalf of the Asian-American/Pacific-Islander community. In the past several months, we have all been witness to sweeping changes that necessitated powerful legal responses. While there have been some great triumphs, there were often times when it was difficult to obtain information, to find ways to contribute, or to organize a response quickly enough to be effective.
The CRTF is specifically designed to address these needs. The CRTF will serve as a central clearinghouse for information and coordination – tailoring the alerts sent to each volunteer based on that volunteer’s preferences and the needs of the community. Alerts and actions will range from emergency legal services to direct non-legal service actions and from workshops to rallies. Read more here.
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Did you clerk for a judge? Have you served as a court attorney? If so, please fill out our AABANY law clerk/court attorney survey!
The Judiciary Committee has created a clerkship directory to gather information about our members who may be willing to act as future resources and/or ultimately want to become a judge. If you've ever clerked for a judge, please take a minute to fill out this survey and forward to others here. We appreciate your help!
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The New York City Bar Association is offering discounted membership to AABANY members. They will waive your one-time admission fee and give you 20% off your first membership dues payment. Membership dues are dependent on your earliest year of admission in any state or country. Click here to take advantage of this great deal.
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Interested in future speaking opportunities? Join the confidential AABANY Speakers Bureau if you're open to raising your profile and sharing your expertise. Click here to access the form.
AABANY regularly receives requests from AABANY Committee Chairs and other bar associations for speakers to speak on various legal topics. This form is designed to collect information from our membership and engage those who are most interested in sharing their knowledge and expertise with various legal audiences.
We respect your privacy. All information disclosed will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. Email main@aabany.org if you have any questions.
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Interested in moving your legal career forward? Launched at the 2013 Fall Conference, the Career Placement Committee seeks to match qualified AABANY members with available legal positions.
The Career Placement Committee Intake Form is now available. Click here to help us help you. Feel free to also email your resumes and CVs to resume@aabany.org. All information disclosed will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Career Placement Committee at careers@aabany.org.
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Judge seeks volunteer attorneys/law grads with experience in criminal, landlord-tenant or consumer debt matters. Judge presides on appellate cases and also handles some civil Supreme Court matters.
Full-time or four days per week preferred, but flexible schedule can be arranged. A wonderful learning and mentee opportunity, as well as an excellent resume-enhancer. Although not guaranteed, many of former volunteers have moved onto paying legal positions. Opportunity to enhance research/writing and oral skills.
Willing to fill out paperwork for paid fellowships, if necessary. Rolling deadline. Opportunities open year round. Please send cover letter, resume, short writing sample, and references by email to Rebecca Wohl, riwohl@nycourts.gov
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Applications are now being accepted for AABANY’s 2019 Legal Internship Program. Open to college students, law students and law grads, AABANY is looking for a few talented, energetic and motivated interns to help plan and organize AABANY programs and events, provide research and administrative assistance and perform other tasks and assignments to advance and promote AABANY’s mission. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. For full details and information on how to apply go to bit.ly/Lgl_Intrn_Details.
Please direct any questions to Executive Director Yang Chen at yang.chen@aabany.org.
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The Year End Report reviews the various events and initiatives undertaken by AABANY to further the interest of APA lawyers and recognizes the accomplishments of its members during the past year. Please click here to read the report.
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A new fellowship opportunity has been added for Fall 2020 Legal Fellowships - Bronx Legal Services NYC. Fellowship announcements can be found on AABANY's website under Career Center, in the sub-menu item "Fellowships." To see current announcements for Fellowships, click here.
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- July 31: Negotiating The Commercial Lease: Both from the Landlord and Tenant Perspective. For more information, click here.
- August 6: Tax Club Dinner. For more information, click here.
- August 6: Asia Practice Committee Dinner Social. For more information, click here.
- August 14: Monthly Pro Bono Clinic, click here.
- August 16: AABANY Outing: Yankees Game. For more information, click here.
- August 17: AABANY Annual Picnic. For more information, click here.
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- August 9: The Long Island Hispanic Bar Association Presents: Summer Mixer. For more information, click here.
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- Researcher, Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, NYC
- Entry-level, Pre-tenure, and Recently Tenured Lateral Candidates, St. John's University School of Law, Jamaica, NY
- Associate Attorney, Thompson Hine LLP, NYC
- RESEARCHER/ADVOCATE, Refugee Rights Program, Human Rights Watch, NY
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For more information on these listings and other open positions go to the AABANY Career Center. Members must be signed in to have access to the Career Center. Either search by keyword or just hit "Search" at the bottom of the form to see a complete listing of jobs.
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