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2025 Annual Dinner

 

AABANY 2025 Annual Dinner

Together We Thrive: The Power of Us!

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Wednesday, May 29, 2025
Cipriani Wall Street
55 Wall Street
New York, NY 10005-2805

SPONSORS

HONOREES

Diamond
  • Broadridge

Pre-Dinner GC Reception

  • Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone LLP

Platinum

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Gold

  • Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  • Levine Lee LLP
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • Williams & Connolly LLP
  • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Silver

  • A&O Shearman
  • Alston & Bired
  • Arnold & Porter
  • BakerHostetler
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • Cooley LLP
  • Covington & Burling LLP
  • Dechert LLP
  • Freshfields US LLP
  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP 
  • Haynes Boone LLP
  • Hogan Lovells
  • Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
  • Jones Day 
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Kobre & Kim LLP
  • Littler Mendelson P.C.
  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
  • Paul Hastings LLP
  • Perkins Coie LLP
  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • Saul Ewing LLP
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 
  • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  • Venable LLP
  • Vinson & Elkins LLP
  • Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Bronze

  • Barnes & Thornburg LLP
  • Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
  • Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
  • Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC 
  • Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • EdgarAgents LLC
  • Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
  • FTI Consulting 
  • Goodwin Procter LLP
  • KKL LLP
  • Miintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo P.C.
  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Supporters

  • Elaine Chiu
  • St. John's University School of Law
  • Verizon

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS  

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

  • Hon. Marilyn Go, Former United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • Hon. Randall Eng, Former Presiding Justice, Appellate Division, 2nd Dept.
  • Hon. Sanket Bulsara, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • Hon. Pamela Chen, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • Hon. Diane Gujarati, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
  • Hon. Dale Ho, United States District Court, Southern District of New York
  • Hon. Lillian Wan, New York State, Appellate Division, 2nd Dept.
  • Hon. James d'Auguste, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County
  • Hon. Richard Tsai, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County
  • Hon. Anar Patel, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Commercial Division
  • Hon. Nestor Diaz, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County
  • Hon. Karen Lin, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County
  • Hon. Frances Wang, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Queens County
  • Hon. Wendy Li, Civil Court of the City of New York, New York County
  • Hon. Alice Tam Tien, Civil Court of the City of New York, New York County
  • Hon. Amish Doshi, Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County
  • Hon. Soma Syed, Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County
  • Hon. Rina Gurung, Housing Court, Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County
  • Hon. John Zhuo Wang, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County
  • Hon. James Clynes, Criminal Court of the City of New York, New York County
  • Hon. Biju Koshy, Criminal Court of the City of New York, Richmond County
  • Hon. Abayomi Whint, Family Court of the City of New York, Kings County
  • Hon. Javier Vargas, New York State Court of Claims, New York County
  • Hannah Yu, Manhattan District Attorney's Office, Hate Crimes Unit Chief
  • Glenn Magpantay, Commissioner, United States Commission on Civil Rights
  • Rocky Chin, Commissioner, New York City Commission on Human Rights
  • Bethany Li, AALDEF, Executive Director
  • Arlene Yang, NAPABA, Treasurer
  • Dan Brody, NAPABA, Regional Governor, Northeast Region
  • Kathleen Chen, NAPABA, Regional Governor, Northeast Region
  • Hon. Biju Koshy, President, Asian American Judges Association of New York
  • Kristine Itliong, FALA-New York, President
  • Jenna Agatep, FALA-New York, President-Elect
  • Lawrence Han, KALAGNY, President
  • Ashish Bhatt, SABANY, President
  • Vlad Frants, Ukrainian American Bar Association (UABA)
  • Hong Shing Lee, Chinatown Manpower Project, Executive Director

Elaine Chiu
Professor of Law
St. John’s University, School of Law
Women's Leadership Award

Henry Hadad
Senior Vice Present and Deputy General Counsel
Bristol-Myers-Squibb
Corporate Leadership Award


 

 

Quinn Emmanuel
Law Firm Diversity Award

 

VIDEOS

Annual Dinner Full Program

 

Don H. Liu Scholars Program

 

 

Update on the Voices Against Anti-Asian Hate

 

PHOTOS 

  

View the album of photos taken by J. McClinton

 

View the album of photos taken by 
Karen Zhou

View the album of photos taken by 
Gerald Pineda