Meet the Presidents of Affinity Bar Associations
Meet the Presidents of Affinity Bar Associations
In its latest article, the New York Law Journal has featured the newly elected Presidents of Affinity Bar Associations for 2017. Among them is Dwight Yoo, the current President of AABANY.
Here is a short excerpt on Dwight:
Dwight Yoo, 43, is a partner in the corporate finance and
financial institutions departments of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law
School and began practicing in 2000.His term began on April 1.
Yoo
said that the group’s theme this year is “take charge and lead change,”
and they plan to promote Asian American talent for executive level
positions and diversify the bench at the state and federal levels.The
approximately 1,100-member group wants to help Asian Americans in need
develop a “strong and unified voice” and be able to speak up on issues
which matter to them. To that end, they will be launching a leadership
institute in the fall to train mid-level to senior Asian American
attorneys at law firms and help them gain the “knowledge and skills to
get promoted in their firms.”
Congratulations again to all newly elected Bar Presidents that are profiled!
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Congratulations to Dwight Yoo
Last week, Skadden Arps announced that Dwight Yoo was among the class of attorneys elected to partnership. Dwight has been a member of AABANY since 2007, and we congratulate him on this wonderful achievement. Please join us in sending our best wishes to Dwight for continued success in all his endeavors. Feel free to post congratulatory messages to Dwight using the Comment link below.
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 main@aabany.org.
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.
On-line Registration for Fall Conference Now Closed
We have closed on-line registration for AABANY’s Second Annual Fall Conference. Thanks to all those who have registered. We are expecting attendance of around 200 throughout the day. If you missed the on-line registration cut-off please register on-site. Note: the 42nd Street entrance of 4 Times Square is closed on the weekends. You must enter on the 43rd Street side.
We hope to see you at the Fall Conference at Skadden on Sept 17!
