In This Edition
- Year End Letter from the President
- AABANY Virtual Gala 2021: Save the Date!
- AABANY 2021 Law Firm Diversity Award - Applications Now Open
- NAPABA Affiliate Membership Code Now Available
- Student Outreach Committee Presents: Students Meet Mentors - What Do Corporate Lawyers Do?, January 7
- Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer, January 8
- AABANY Real Estate and Asia Practice Committees Present: "The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy," January 11
- AABANY Professional Development Committee Presents: ALDP Information Session, January 13
- SABANY, AABANY, and MuBANY Presents: Fireside Chat with Hon. Shahabuddeen Ally, January 20
- Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer: Academic Committee Mixer, January 22
- Join AABANY’s Legal Referral and Information Service Panel
- Read AABANY's 2019 Year End Report
- Join the AABANY Community Response Task Force
- AABANY Clerkship Directory
- Discounted Membership - New York City Bar Association
- AABANY Speakers Bureau
- Career Placement Committee Intake Form Now Available
- NAPABA News
- AABANY Seeks Legal Interns
- This Week on WE Blog @AABANY
- Fellowship Announcements
- Upcoming Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Other Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Recent Job Postings on the AABANY Career Center
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From AABANY President, Sapna Palla:
Dear Members,
I hope you and your loved ones have been able to share the joys of the holiday season despite the constraints we have been living under for most of 2020. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continuing support
of AABANY and laud you for everything we have been able to achieve together this year. 2020 will surely be remembered as a year filled with challenges and uncertainty that affected our personal and professional lives in unforeseen ways. But as I look back at the year as a whole, I am proud that AABANY sprang into action throughout this year, serving our community and exemplifying our theme “Stronger Together: Unity in Diversity” when our country was beset by a global pandemic, civil unrest, and economic downturn, all during a time of racial reckoning for the nation.
Read the full letter here.
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AABANY's Annual Dinner is going virtual and will take place on February 24, 2021. Please save the date and make plans to join us there to celebrate 33 years of AABANY's advocacy for APA legal professionals and the APA community in New
York. For more information go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1452739.
Sponsors welcome! Download the sponsorship package here.
Volunteers are needed immediately to help plan the virtual event. AABANY relies on the support of volunteers to help ensure the success of the Virtual Gala. If you would like to help with planning this year's event, please let us know
by emailing ad21@aabany.org. You can also direct any questions you might have to that address.
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Since 2014, AABANY has sought to recognize one law firm each year for its extraordinary efforts to improve the diversity of our profession by presenting AABANY’s Law Firm Diversity Award. The 2021 AABANY Law Firm Diversity Award will be
presented at the Virtual Gala on February 24, 2021.
Nominees should be a law firm that has achieved significant success in the areas of recruiting, retaining and promoting women and diverse attorneys while also demonstrating
a commitment to raising awareness of, and influencing the legal community to address, the challenges faced by women and diverse attorneys in the legal industry.
For more information and to access the submission form, go
to https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.aabany.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/
LFDA_2021_SUBMISSION_FORM_fi.pdf
Deadline: January 8, 2021.
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One of the benefits of being an AABANY member is that you get a FREE Affiliate Membership to NAPABA. The code is now available. Please contact margaret.langston@aabany.org to get the code and instructions to activate your Affiliate Membership. Note that NAPABA's membership follows the calendar year, i.e., January 1 to December 31, so to maximize your membership, be sure to renew now. |
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Interested in corporate law? Are you interviewing but have no idea what corporate lawyers do? Never taken a finance-related course but want to practice as a transactional attorney?
Join us January 7, 2021, 6:30PM-7:30PM EST
for a conversation with corporate law leaders: “What Do Corporate Lawyers Do?” to be held virtually over zoom. To RSVP, click on the flyer below.
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Please see flyer for details and click on it to register
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Please see flyer for details and click on it to register.
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Please come join us for an information session for the AABANY Leadership Development Program (ALDP) on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 6:30-7:30pm ET. Our panel of faculty members and past participants will share their experience with the
program and take questions from the audience. To learn more about ALDP, please visit: https://www.aabany.org/page/852. A Zoom link will be provided to all registered attendees prior to
the event.
Please RSVP on or before January 10, 2021 by clicking on the flyer below.
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Please see flyer for details and click on it to register.
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Please see flyer for details and click on it to register.
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This fall, AABANY launched a legal referral and information service (“LRIS”) as a public service primarily to help the general public, and especially the Asian American community. The goals of the LRIS are to provide information and referrals,
to recommend lawyers or other resources to provide competent, ethical legal advice and representation, to educate the public about legal representation and to increase respect for the legal profession.
We are seeking qualified
and experienced lawyers to serve on the panels of lawyers eligible to receive referrals from AABANY’s LRIS.
This is a vital program for AABANY that we anticipate will greatly benefit our panelists and fellow members as
well as the public, and especially the Asian American community. If you would like to apply to be considered for the LRIS panel, please contact joinlris@aabany.org and we will send you an application
form. If you have any questions, please send them to the same address.
We hope you can join us in the launch of this important new AABANY initiative.
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The Year End Report reviews the various events and initiatives undertaken by AABANY to further the interests of APA lawyers and recognizes the accomplishments of its members during the past year. Please click on the image below to read
the report.
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| AABANY’s Issues Committee is pleased to invite you to join the 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. During these challenging times,
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.
PLEASE NOTE that the Community Response Task Force form has been updated. Even if you have already filled out the form, we kindly ask that you resubmit your interest 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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Applications are now being accepted for AABANY’s 2021 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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Fellowship announcements can be found on AABANY's website under Career Center, in the sub-menu item "Fellowships." The Office of General Counsel at New York University is now accepting applications for its one-year OGC Meloy Fellowship. To
see this and other current announcements for Fellowships, click here.
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- January 5: AABANY Immigration Committee Meeting. For more information, click here.
- January 7: Student Outreach Committee Presents: Students Meet Mentors - What Do Corporate Lawyers Do? For more information, click here.
- January 8: Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer on Remo. For more information, click here.
- January 11: AABANY Real Estate and Asia Practice Committees Present: "The Hunt for Unicorns: How Sovereign Funds are Reshaping Investment in the Digital Economy." For more information, click here.
- January 12: AABANY Board Meeting. For more information, click here.
- January 13: AABANY Professional Development Committee Presents: ALDP Information Session. For more information, click here.
- January 20: SABANY, AABANY, and MuBANY Presents: Fireside Chat with Hon. Shahabuddeen Ally. For more information, click here.
- January 22: Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer: Academic Committee Mixer. For more information, click here.
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- January 7: Brooklyn Women's Bar Association Presents: Courtroom Basics 101 CLE. For more information, click here.
- January 7: BBA Presents: Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and Refinancing Student Loans. For more information, click here.
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- Casualty Litigation Attorney, Chubb Insurance Company, White Plains, NY
- Litigation Associate, Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Waimey, P.C., NYC
- Corporate Associate, Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, NY
- Assistant Attorney General, New York State Office of the Attorney General, NYC
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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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