PALS Mentoring Reception: Building Effective Mentoring Relationships
Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Location: Chadbourne & Parke LLP, 1301 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
This networking reception will provide students and lawyers, presently participating in the PALS Mentoring Program, an opportunity to meet.
We also encourage all New York City area law students of color and attorneys interested in future participation to come and learn about PALS and our Mentoring Program.
A New Open Enrollment Period Will Commence
on Friday, February 5th!
Mentoring relationships are rewarding to both parties and are essential in the professional world. We encourage all attorneys to share their own experiences on the giving and receiving end of mentoring relationships.
Please spread the word about this reception to attorneys who may be interested in volunteering as a mentor to a law student of color. We continue to have a tremendous demand from students interested in obtaining a mentor.
REGISTER HERE and invite your fellow colleagues/classmates. Deadline to register is Monday, February 1st.
Legal Outreach prepares urban youth from underserved neighborhoods in New York City to compete at high academic levels by using intensive legal and educational programs as a tool for fostering vision, developing skills, enhancing confidence, and facilitating the pursuit of higher education.
Legal Outreach wants you! Volunteer with Legal Outreach as an Attorney Mentor!
CONNECT with a NYC high school student, positively IMPACT their lives, and INSPIRE them to pursue higher heights!
To apply to be a mentor or for more information, click on the link in the title.
Thank you MBBA for sharing this opportunity with us.
Clemency Project 2014
The Clemency Project 2014 is an unprecedented, independent effort to provide assistance to federal prisoners serving draconian sentences for non-violent offenses. Over 75,000 prisoners are currently serving mandatory minimums for non-violent crimes including drug offenses. The National Bar Association’s (“NBA”) Young Lawyers Division and Criminal Law Section have joined efforts to review at least 1,000 clemency applications prior to January 18, 2016.
You do not need to be a criminal law lawyer to help. Volunteering is easy and not terribly time consuming. The average petition review timeline is approximately 20-25 hours. We highly encourage attorneys to seek approval and credit from their law firm or employer’s Pro Bono Coordinator.
Click on the link in the title for more details. Thank you MBBA for sharing this information with us.
ABA Presidential Appointments – NAPABA Endorsements Deadline Jan. 29
NAPABA needs your help and involvement to ensure that Asian Pacific Americans are represented in the ranks of the American Bar Association leadership. We encourage you to self-nominate for a Presidential Committee Appointment by the ABA deadline of Feb. 26, 2016.
In addition to your self-nomination, NAPABA will be recommending candidates for appointments to committees, commissions, and other ABA entities for the upcoming bar year. To be considered for a NAPABA endorsement, you must submit a request to NAPABA by 12 p.m. EST on Jan. 29, 2016.
We look forward to receiving your applications and value your participation in this process. For more information on submitting a NAPABA endorsement request, please click here.
Asian American Bar Association of New York Commends the Appointment of Donald Leo as New York City Criminal Court Judge
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 14, 2016
Contact: Yang Chen, Executive Director
(718) 228-7206
NEW YORK – January 14, 2016 – The Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”) commends New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s appointment of Donald Leo as New York City Criminal Court Judge. Judge Leo joined the bench after thirteen years of service as an Assistant District Attorney in New York County and seven years as Deputy Bureau Chief of the Sex Offender Management Bureau for the New York State Attorney General’s Office. His appointment was effective December 29, 2015.
A lifelong New Yorker and first generation son of Chinese immigrants, Judge Leo is fluent in Cantonese and witnessed firsthand the Chinatown community’s aversion to cooperating with law enforcement and their distrust of the legal system. He has spent many of his years as a public servant fostering public trust and bridging the two worlds of New York’s Chinatown and New York’s criminal justice system by bringing justice to those who often feel that there is none. Judge Leo is a graduate of New York University and received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. He is also a founding member of AABANY’s Prosecutors Committee, started in 2008.
“AABANY is proud to see another one of its prominent members ascend to the bench,” says Yang Chen, Executive Director of AABANY. “Judge Leo is highly qualified to serve on the Criminal Court, and his own life experiences speak to the need for increased diversity on the bench. The more the bench reflects the diversity of the residents in our diverse communities across the city, the more they can develop a sense of trust that the courts are truly representative of them and are there to serve them. We thank Mayor de Blasio and his Advisory Committee on the Judiciary for making this appointment possible, and for continuing to promote diversity on the bench as an integral part of the administration of justice for all New Yorkers.”
For more information, please contact Yang Chen, AABANY Executive Director, at (718) 228-7206, or direct any inquiries to [email protected].
The Asian American Bar Association of New York is a professional membership organization of attorneys concerned with issues affecting the Asian Pacific American community. Incorporated in 1989, AABANY seeks not only to encourage the professional growth of its members but also to advocate for the Asian Pacific American community as a whole. AABANY is the New York regional affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA).
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2016 American Arbitration Association Higginbotham Fellows Program – Apply Now
2016 American Arbitration Association Higginbotham Fellows Program – Apply Now
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) created the AAA A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Fellows Program (“AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program”) in 2009 in order to provide training, mentorship and networking opportunities to up and coming diverse alternative dispute resolution professionals who have historically not been included in meaningful participation in the field of alternative dispute resolution. The AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program is a one-year program designed to offer the full breadth of the AAA resources for emerging diverse alternative dispute resolution professionals. For more information about the AAA Higginbotham Fellows Program, click here.
Click on the link in the title for further information.
EFiling – N.Y. State Courts
The Office of Court Administration is seeking comment from interested members of the legal profession and the public concerning proposals for new mandatory programs of electronic filing.
December 23, 2015: Kings County Supreme Court. All new Tort Actions and Proceedings, to be electronically filed, effective March 1, 2016.
Description of Proposal
Email to: [email protected] by February 6, 2016
For further details, click on the link in the title.
