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Thanks to Francis Chin, here’s another slideshow of photos from the 2012 AABANY Fall Conference. Enjoy!
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Thanks to everyone who came out to the Fall Conference on Saturday, September 15, at Gibson Dunn. We could not have asked for a more beautiful day to hold a conference, and we had well over 200 attendees, including speakers, Board members, Committee Chairs, volunteers, and numerous participants for eight CLE programs, the all-day Trial Advocacy Program, the pitch sessions, the In-House Counsel Forum and the Judicial Forum.
During the luncheon, Debra Wong Yang, Gibson Dunn Partner from the Los Angeles office, welcomed all the attendees. Wells Fargo Senior Economist Anika Khan flew in from Charlotte, North Carolina, to give an informative and engaging presentation about the current economic outlook in the United States.
After a long day, many attendees stayed for the cocktail reception, at which the 2012-13 AABANY Mentorship Program was officially launched, with some mentors and mentees for this year’s program meeting face-to-face for the first time. Cynthia Tomm, Development Coordinator for the MinKwon Center, our community partner, addressed the audience to talk about the work MinKwon has been doing in the community and to seek attorneys to volunteer their time in support of those efforts, especially with the recently-announced Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Jason Leung and Jin Hwang, NAPABA Northeast Regional Governors, were on hand to encourage everyone to register for the NAPABA National Convention in Washington, DC in November.
We thank the Fall Conference Planning Committee, the program organizers, the panelists and moderators for many months of hard work. We thank all the volunteers who helped things to run smoothly from early in the morning and into the evening.
We thank our sponsors Wells Fargo, Hudson Reporting and Holtz Rubenstein Reminick for their generous support. We thank Gibson Dunn for hosting the event and for donating so many resources to make the conference a success.
For those who still had energy left to go to the after-party, it was held at Chelsea Manor, and we thank Skadden for sponsoring the after-party.
We hope everyone had an enjoyable time at the Fall Conference (and afterwards), and if you have any feedback to share, please post it here on the blog or email us at [email protected].
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More than 100 AABANY members and friends registered for the End of Summer Happy Hour on August 29 at Tavern 29 (on 29th and Park Avenue South) and from about 6 pm to 9 pm, it seemed like everyone who signed up showed up to join AABANY to bid a fond farewell to summer 2012. Attorneys, law students, in-house counsel, members and non-members met, mingled and caught up with each other over drinks and munchies. We took over the second floor, and for those who wanted some fresh air, they could take their networking to the outdoor rooftop space.
About an hour into the event, President Jean Lee stood on a chair and at the top of her voice encouraged everyone to sign up for the Fall Conference. For those who didn’t hear everything she said, Fall Conference brochures were available for everyone to take with them. Thanks to all for coming and making this our biggest End of Summer Happy Hour yet. We wish everyone a happy, safe and fun Labor Day Weekend.
PRESIDENT LINDA S. LIN ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF THE AABANY LAW REVIEW DURING AABANY’S SECOND ANNUAL FALL CONFERENCE
NEW YORK – September 19, 2011 – President Linda S. Lin officially announced the formation of the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s (AABANY) first law review, The AABANY Law Review, at AABANY’s Second Annual Fall Conference held on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom LLP. President Lin states, “This undertaking represents a first-of-its-kind endeavor by AABANY, and we hope that it will provide a platform for important works of legal scholarship on issues that matter to the Asian Pacific American community.”
The AABANY Law Review will provide comprehensive analyses of law and commentary on groundbreaking cases and legislation that impact the Asian Pacific American community, and serve as an effective research tool for practicing attorneys and law students. President Lin also introduced Jen Yue Connor Yim, who will serve as the law review’s first Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Yim is an associate at the law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School and served as Production Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. “Our team is very excited to take part in a publication that will foster intellectual and meaningful discourse on relevant legal issues that directly and indirectly affect the Asian Pacific American community,“ says Mr. Yim, Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Yim will lead a team of three executive editors and fourteen articles editors.
To read the full press release, click on the title of this post.
Thanks for Coming to Fall Conference 2011: Diversify
Thanks to everyone who came to AABANY’s Second Annual Fall Conference on September 17, 2011, at Skadden. We are grateful for the hospitality of Skadden and its entire team for hosting us so well throughout the day. Special thanks go to our anchor sponsor Wells Fargo for its generous support. We thank also Sprint and Veritext as additional sponsors.
Thanks to our hard-working Committee Chairs and program organizers for bringing in some excellent speakers and moderators covering a diverse range of topics that truly defined what it means to “Diversify” as an attorney. Thanks to the Fall Conference Planning Committee for putting in long hours, participating in meetings and conference calls and doing all that was needed to pull off an event of this magnitude. Thanks to all the volunteers, mostly law students, who assisted tremendously in the smooth flow of everything from registration to checking attendees in and out of each program and making sure that everyone was getting proper CLE credit. Thanks to our AABANY Legal Interns, Melerie Shih and Hyunjoo Kim for running our BlackBerry PlayBook sweepstakes. Congratulations to Judy Tsang (@soapdishes) on winning the drawing for the PlayBook.
Thanks especially to everyone who registered to attend the Fall Conference. All told we had more than 210 attendees througout the day, from morning until evening.
During the luncheon, Sharon Hom, Executive Director of Human Rights in China, delivered inspiring and compelling remarks covering a wide range of subjects from Asian American attorneys to attorneys in China and the struggles and challenges that both have faced and continue to face. At the end of the luncheon, President Linda Lin announced the launch of the AABANY Law Review and introduced its first Editor-in-Chief Jen Yue Connor Yim. (Read the AABANY press release announcing the AABANY Law Review here.)
After the end of a long day, many of the attendees stayed for the cocktail reception. During the reception, James Hong, Civic Participation Coordinator at MinKwon Center, spoke about the work that MinKwon has been doing to mobilize the Asian American community in New York to engage in the re-districting process. MinKwon is the lead organization behind ACCORD (Asian American Community Coalition on Redistricting and Democracy) of which AABANY is a member.
Also during the cocktail reception, AABANY officially kicked off its inaugural Mentorship Program, with Julie Kwon, Mentorship Program Coordinator, introducing the program and inviting the first class of AABANY mentors and mentees to meet each other in person for the first time.
Fall Conference 2011: Diversify was a wonderful event, and it would not have been as successful without your involvement and participation. Thank you all for being a part of it. If you have any feedback, good, bad, big, small, please share it with us by emailing your comments to [email protected].
Welcome to the Fall Conference
We are underway here at Skadden for the second annual Fall Conference! Feel free to comment in reply to this post and let us know how it’s going.