AABANY 35th Anniversary Year 

Building a Strong Foundation for a Brighter Future

SPONSORS

HONOREES

• Broadridge

Pre-Dinner GC Reception

• Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP
  

Platinum

• Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• Dragon GC
• Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  

Gold

• Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
• Mayer Brown LLP
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Silver

• Akin Gump
• Allen & Overy
  
• Alston & Bird
  
• Arnold & Porter
  
• Baker Hostetler
  
• Cleary Gottlieb
  
• Cooley
  
• Cravath, Swaine & Moore
  
• Crowell & Moring
  
• Freshfields Bruckhaus
• Deringer US
  
• Fried Frank
  
• FTI
  
• Haynes & Boone
  
• Hunton Andrews Kurth
  
• Jackson Lewis
  
• Kirkland & Ellis
  
• Kobre & Kim
  
• Levine Lee
  
• Milbank
  
• Morrison & Foerster
  
• Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
  
• Paul Hastings
  
• Perkins Coie
  
• Proskauer Rose
  
• QBE
  
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
  
• Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
  
• Sullivan & Cromwell
  
• Venable
• Vinson & Elkins
  
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges
  
• White & Case
  
• Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Bronze

• Arnold & Porter
  
• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
  
• Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
  
• Dechert
  
• Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu
  
• Jenner & Block
  
• Sidley Austin
  
• Verizon

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS  

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

• Dong Gyu Lee, Consul, Consulate General for the Republic of Korea in New York
• Pei Pei Cheng de Castro, Deputy Counsel to the Governor, The Office of Governor Hochul
• Hon. Denny Chin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 
  
• Hon. Pamela Chen, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Hon. William F. Kunz, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Kiyo Matsumoto, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Hon. Sanket Bulsara, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Hon. James Cho, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  
• Hon. Peggy Kuo, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  
• Hon. Jeffrey Oing, Appellate Division, First Department of the New York State Supreme Court
  
• Hon. Lillian Wan, Associate Justice, New York State Appellate Division, Second Department
• Hon. Phillip Hom, Appellate Term, Second Department
• Hon. Margaret Chan, Supreme Court, New York County, Civil Term
  
• Hon. Gerald Lebovits, Supreme Court, New York County
  
• Hon. Richard Tsai, Supreme Court, New York County, Civil Term
  
• Hon. James d’Auguste, Supreme Court, New York County
  
• Hon. Karen Lin, Supreme Court, Queens County, Civil Term
  
• Hon. Judy Kim, Supreme Court, New York County
  
• Hon. James Clynes, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County
  
• Hon. Evelyn Gong, New York City Civil Court, Queens County, 6th Municipal Court District
  
• Hon. Javier Vargas, New York State Court of Claims, New York County
  
• Hon. Zainab Chaudhry, New York State Court of Claims, Albany County
  
• Hon. Kris Singh, Surrogate's Court, Montgomery County
  
• Hon. Christopher Chin, Criminal Court of the City of New York, Bronx County
  
• Louise Lingat, Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York (FALA) President
  
• Sylvia Chin, Asian American Law Fund of New York (AALFNY) President
  
• Mike Huang, Don H. Liu Scholars President
  
• Linda Lin, The Sonia & Celina Sotomayor Judicial Internship Program President
  
• Hena Vora, South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) President
  
• Ashish Bhatt, South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) President-Elect
• Irene Ittisarnronnachai, Thai American Bar Association (TABA) President
• Jerry Vattamala, The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund Director, Democracy Program
  
• D'Andre Gordon, LGBT Bar Association of New York

Hon. Denny Chin
United States Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Impact Leadership Award

Iris Lan, Esq.
Chief Legal Officer
Public Service Award

 White & Case LLP
Law Firm Diversity Award

VIDEOS

Annual Dinner Full Program

35th Anniversary Video

Don H. Liu Scholars Program

Voices Against Anti-Asian Hate

PHOTOS 

View the albums of photos taken by Karen Zhou

View the album of photos taken by 
Victor Suwatcharapinun

PRINT 

Click on the above image to view the Annual Dinner Program in PDF.