Official blog of the Asian American Bar Association of New York
President R. Nadine Fontaine of the Metropolitan Black Bar is pleased to announce that Governor Andrew Cuomo has nominated the Honorable Sheila Abdus-Salaam to the New York State Court of Appeals. If confirmed, Justice Abdus-Salaam will be the first African-American woman to sit on the highest court of this State. Her confirmation will fill the vacancy created by the untimely passing of Associate Justice Theodore T. Jones, Jr.
Click HERE for the press release.
NAPABA Annual Lobby Day
Lobby Day gives you the opportunity to educate members of Congress and congressional staffers on issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American community and to meet other NAPABA leaders from around the country.
We hope that you are able to participate in the Lobby Day meetings and Congressional Reception celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month this year. We look forward to seeing you May 20-21, 2013, in Washington, DC.
Lobby Day Event Schedule:
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
NAPABA Lobby Day Training Webinar (part one of two)Monday, May 20, 2013
NAPABA Lobby Day Training (part two of two)
NAPABA’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Congressional ReceptionTuesday, May 21, 2013 (Correction)
NAPABA Lobby Day: Breakfast, Member Visits, Participant Debriefing & Happy Hour
(Breakfast and Happy Hour hosted by Jones Day)
Stipends are available for NAPABA members traveling to Lobby Day from out of town. To apply please fill out the form here.
There is no cost to attend.
Please visit our website for more information or email Melanie Robinson with any questions.
Congratulations to Pauline Yeung-Ha, co-chair of AABANY’s Solo and Small Firm Practice Committee, for being quoted in an April 8 article on WNYC Radio about lack of regulation in adult daycare centers.
Yeung-Ha said she was alarmed at how easy it is to open these so called social adult daycare centers and said stricter rules are needed to ensure that providers are running legitimate centers that are beneficial to seniors. She also questioned whether the seniors being recruited for adult daycare are too healthy to really qualify for it. While social adult daycare is mostly social engagement, it’s still considered a form of long-term care and requires at least minimal incapacitation.
Click HERE to read more.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 4, 2013Contact: Yang Chen, Executive Director(718) 228-7206AABANY APPLAUDS SELECTION OF BLOSSOM KAN AND TEENA-ANN V. SANKOORIKAL AS MINORITY CORPORATE COUNSEL ASSOCIATION’S RISING STARS
NEW YORK – April 4, 2013 – The Asian American Bar Association of New York (“AABANY”) applauds the selection of Blossom Kan and Teena-Ann V. Sankoorikal for being named one of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Rising Stars for 2013.
The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (“MCCA”) was founded in 1997 to advance the hiring, retention, and promotion of diverse attorneys in legal departments and the law firms that serve them. In the March/April 2013 issue of “Diversity & the Bar Magazine,” MCCA recognized Ms. Kan and Ms. Sankoorikal as “Rising Stars” based on their extraordinary legal accomplishments, demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, and their emergence as major players in the legal world.
“We are thrilled that both Blossom and Teena-Ann were named one of MCCA’s ‘Rising Stars’ for 2013. Their selection to this exclusive group is a testament to their outstanding legal work, commitment to diversity and leadership abilities, and we congratulate them for this well-deserved honor,” said Mike Huang, AABANY President.
Blossom Kan is an Assistant General Counsel at MetLife Inc in New York, NY. Ms. Kan handles complex litigation matters and represents MetLife on regulatory matters with both federal and state regulatory authorities. Ms. Kan currently serves as the co-chair of AABANY’s In-House Counsel Committee. Prior to joining MetLife, Ms. Kan was a litigation counsel at the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Previous to that, she was a litigation associate at the law firm of Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe. Her practice focused on complex financial litigation. Ms. Kan received a Bachelors of Arts in English and History from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Environmental Law Journal. Ms. Kan has also co-authored two women’s fiction novels published by St. Martin’s Press, China Dolls (2007) and Young, Restless and Broke (2010).
Teena-Ann V. Sankoorikal is currently a litigation partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Ms. Sankoorikal has a broad litigation practice, with particular experience in copyright, patent and trade secret matters, as well as experience with antitrust law, securities, Alien Tort Statute and internal investigations. In 2013, Ms. Sankoorikal was elected to the Board of Directors of AABANY. Ms. Sankoorikal received a Bachelors of Science in Chemistry cum laude from Yale University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999, where she was the Research Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
COURT NOTICE TO THE BAR
CONTACT: Rebecca Price, 212-805-0650APPLICATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN COURT’S MEDIATION PROGRAM WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER APRIL 8Please be advised that after April 8, 2013, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) will temporarily stop accepting new applications for its mediation panel, the court’s roster of volunteer attorney-mediators, to conduct a review of the program’s eligibility criteria. However, the SDNY’s Mediation Program will continue to provide mediation services to the court’s litigants as usual. Applications for the mediation panel that were submitted to the court prior to April 8, 2013 will continue to be reviewed on an ongoing basis.
AAF HOSTS NYC MAYORAL REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FORUM
STRAW POLL RESULTS ARE IN!
Many thanks to them, and our moderator Ti-Hua Chang at Fox 5 News, for initiating some lively discussions.
At the end of the evening, audience members were asked to participate in a straw poll, selected the candidate that would get their vote based on the forum. The results are:
Note this issue now contains a correction!
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More photos from the 2013 Annual Dinner, thanks to professional photographer Steven Wu. Enjoy!
