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Look for These AABANY Members and Leaders at the NAPABA Convention in Los Angeles!

Are you attending the NAPABA Convention on November 12-14, 2026 in Los Angeles this year?  Check out some of these events and programs at which you can find  AABANY members and leaders while you are there!  

This list will be periodically updated as we get new information about AABANY member participation, so check back here for updates.

You can find the full Convention agenda here.

Panels

Thursday, November 12, 2026

1:00 PM-2:15 PM PT

Solo & Small Firm Boot Camp 1 | Scaling Your Practice: Partnerships, Mergers, and Exit Strategies for Solo & Small Firm Lawyers.  

  • AABANY Board Director and Issues Committee Co-Chair Vishal Chander and AABANY Board Director Jennifer Wu will be on this panel.

2:45 PM-4:00 PM

Public Sector Network Workshop 2 | Public Interest Lawyering in the Age of Trump 2.0.

  • AABANY Academic Committee Co-Chair Dennis Fan will be on this panel.

Solo & Small Firm Boot Camp 2 | Cutting Through the Hype: Practical AI Implementation for Solo & Small Law Firms 

  • AABANY Board Director and Issues Committee Co-Chair Vishal Chander will be on this panel.

Friday, November 13, 2026

9:00 AM-10:15 AM PT

Shark Tank Part IV: The GC Hot Seat — Live Pitch Coaching and Business Development Mastery

  • AABANY Past President and member Susan Shin is the moderator. AABANY member Allen Lo and former AABANY Director and former member Steve Chung will be on this panel.
  • Sign Up To Deliver a Live Pitch: Attorneys interested in pitching to the GC panel: register here. Advance sign-ups receive priority; participation depends on avaialble time.

10:45 AM-12:00 PM

General Counsel Roundtable

  • AABANY In-House Counsel Committee Co-Chair David Sohn and AABANY member Michael Wu will be co-moderating this panel, and a number of GCs from AABANY, including Don Liu and Allen Lo will be speaking.

Law Student Workshop 2 | Breaking Into Public Interest and Impact-Driven Advocacy: Strategies for Finding Purpose-Driven Legal Careers

  • AABANY members Louise Lingat and Professor Rose C. Cuison-Villazor will be on this panel.

Hate Crimes in the COVID‑19 Era and Beyond: The Unfinished Work Facing Attorneys, Advocates, Government, and Society

  • AABANY Board Director Jennifer Wu will be on this panel.

Behind the Curtain: What Really Happens in Mediation and Arbitration

  • AABANY Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Co-Chair Chris Kwok will be on this panel.

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Mainstage Event: Friday Plenary Luncheon: A Conversation with Min Jin Lee and Don Liu

  • AABANY member Don Liu will be moderating.  AABANY Board Director Jennifer Wu will introduce the speakers.  Her firm, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone, LLP is sponsoring this luncheon.

2:00 PM-3:15 PM PT 

“Concededly Loyal”: Ex Parte Mitsuye Endo

  • This is the newest AABANY Trial Re-Enactment, presented for the first time at NAPABA.  AABANY members Hon. Denny Chin and Kathy Hirata Chin will be narrating this reenactment, along with a cast featuring many AABANY members.

Dueling Experts: Inside the Damages Battles That Decide High-Stakes Litigation

  • AABANY Past President and member Brian Song will be on this panel.

Hyper Velocity, Higher Stakes: Mitigating Early Tenure Risk for General Counsel

  • AABANY member Don Liu will be on this panel.

Saturday, November 14, 2026

9:00 AM-10:15 AM PT

AI in the Crosshairs: Generative AI, Intellectual Property, and the Global Technology Threat

  • AABANY Past President and member Sapna Palla, and NAPABA incoming President-Elect, will be on this panel.

10:45 AM-12:00 PM PT 

Still Under Watch: The China Initiative’s Lasting Impact on Asian American Workers, Academics, and Advocates

  • AABANY Board Director and Issues Committee Co-Chair Rachel Lee will be on this panel.

Awards

Friday, November 13

Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award at the Trailblazer Awards Reception

  • AABANY member Hugh Mo will be honored.

Saturday, November 14

Awards Luncheon

Receptions

AABANY at NAPABA: Get Together at Lazy Dog:  Register here.  The event is now at capacity but you can still sign up to be on the waitlist until Nov 11.

When:Friday, November 13, 20264:00pm – 6:00pm
Where:Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar800 W Olympic Blvd A-180Los Angeles, California  

From former Board Director and AABANY member Will Hao:

University of Michigan Alumni Reception

Friday, November 13th, from 6-7pm

Reception open to all University of Michigan alumni. Come join your fellow Wolverines and kick off the conference! Sponsored by 5Gambit and Alston & Bird. Go Blue!

From Board Director Jennifer Wu:

Reception hosted by North American Taiwanese Bar Association

Saturday, November 14th, from 2-4pm

18 Social at Hotel Indigo, located a short walk from the JW Marriott (899 Francisco St, Los Angeles, CA 90017)

Committee Meetings

Government Enforcement and Compliance Committee

AABANY Members Yi Liu (NYC Law Department), Anden Chow (MoloLamken), and Elizabeth L. Mo (The Law Firm of Hugh H. Mo) are Co-Chairs of this Committee

Thursday 6-7:00pm – Reception sponsored by BRG 

JW Marriott Plaza I 

Friday 3:30-4:15pm – Business meeting 

JW Marriott Olympic I 

A photo scheduled for past and present prosecutors on Friday at 12:10pm; the location is TBD.

Solo and Small Firm Committee

AABANY Board Directors Beatrice Leong and Vishal Chander are Co-Chairs of this Committee

Friday 3:30-4:30 – SFF Membership Meeting

JW Marriott Platinum E

Friday 7:30-11pm – SSF Korean BBQ Dinner

An evening of great food, conversation, and networking with colleagues from across the country!

WhatsApp for AABANY members

Yes, we do have a WhatsApp group for AABANY members at the NAPABA Convention. If you are on WhatsApp and wish to be added, send a request to [email protected].

If you are participating in a panel or will be receiving an honor at the NAPABA Convention, hosting a reception or a Committee meeting, but are not listed above, please let us know at [email protected], and we will update this blog post accordingly.

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Thanks to the impeccable video skills of President Susan Shin’s husband Rob (a/k/a AABANY’s First Man) we have the opening speech given by Susan as the Outgoing President at the 2017 Annual Dinner at Cipriani Wall Street. Susan reinforced the relevance and power of the theme for her year. We need to continue to “Speak Up, Rise Up, Lift Up.” Thanks for your leadership during the past year, Susan!

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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KALAGNY – 2016 NAPABA Northeast Regional Conference

KALAGNY – 2016 NAPABA Northeast Regional Conference

Calling All Those Similarly Situated:  Hot Topics and Recurring Issues in Class Action Litigation

Class actions today come in all shapes and sizes, on behalf of all kinds of individuals, and seek broad relief for all types of infractions.  For many publicly traded companies, highly regulated industries, manufacturers, retailers, service providers, and employers of a sizable workforce, the threat of a class action lawsuit can be palpable and constant.  Our panelists will discuss some recent trends and noteworthy decisions in class action practice, as well as recurring themes and issues for practitioners prosecuting, defending, or counseling companies vulnerable to these bet-the-company lawsuits.  

The panel will also seek to demystify class action practice by addressing some of the following questions:  Why are class actions attractive for plaintiff’s attorneys and what are the risks and pitfalls of bringing them?  Why are they so scary to defendants?  What are some ways to potentially circumvent class actions?  What is the anatomy of a typical class action?  What are some practical tips and considerations for discovery, class certification, and settlement?  How can these strategies vary depending on the nature of the suit (e.g., securities, labor, mass torts, antitrust, consumer protection)?      

  • Sung W. Kim, Esq., Special Counsel, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • Arun Subramanian, Esq., Partner, Susman Godfrey LLP
  • Susan L. Shin, Esq., Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP
  • Phil Cha, Esq., Partner, Archer & Greiner, P.C.
  • August T. Horvath, Esq., Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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Meet the Affinity Bar Group Presidents

Meet the Affinity Bar Group Presidents

AABANY President Susan Shin was featured in The New York Law Journal:

Susan Shin, 43, is a partner at Arnold & Porter practicing complex business litigation. She is a 2001 graduate of Columbia Law School. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter she clerked for Eastern District Judge Raymond J. Dearie.

Shin’s term began on April 1.

Additional officers are president-elect Dwight Yoo; immediate past president William Wang; vice president of programs and operations Marianne Chow; vice president of finance and development William Ng; treasurer Amy Ngai; and secretary Ligee Gu.

During her term, Shin plans to work with other officers, the board of the association and committee chairs to invigorate and actively engage the association’s roughly 1,100 members to take part in the association’s theme for 2016: “Speak up, Rise up, and Lift up,” which calls on members to work together, help each other advance and succeed, be vocal in affecting positive change at firms, companies and organizations at which we work and devote time to mentor and train young Asian American lawyers.

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Ensuring Rights of Non- and Limited-English Speakers

Ensuring Rights of Non- and Limited-English Speakers

Check out President Susan Shin’s New York Law Journal article, “Ensuring Rights of Non- and Limited-English Speakers,” published in the Law Day issue. In this Special Report, bench and bar leaders share their thoughts on the Miranda rights. Susan shares her thoughts about the challenges in protecting these rights for non- and limited-English speakers in particular: 

Even I, a native English speaker, found the terms difficult to understand before becoming a lawyer. How much more difficult is it for a non-native English speaker who does not understand legal concepts and implications of, for example, the “right to remain silent,” “waiver,” and “consent”? Still, many respond in the affirmative when asked if they understand and consent to questioning and waive their rights, even if they failed to comprehend the words being communicated to them.

Read more at the link above to access Susan’s article. Click here for a PDF of the article. To view all the Law Day articles, including articles from Acting Presiding Justice Peter Tom and Presiding Justice Randall T. Eng, click here. 

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OPINION: Missed Opportunity In Supreme Court Nomination – Law360

OPINION: Missed Opportunity In Supreme Court Nomination – Law360

Here is an interesting opinion piece from Law360, published on March 16, in which Lee Cheng, Chief Legal Officer of Newegg (and a speaker at AABANY’s 2015 Fall Conference in two separate programs) laments President Obama’s major missed opportunity in not seizing the historic chance to nominate an Asian Pacific American for the SCOTUS vacancy. What may be even more noteworthy is Lee’s recommendation that President Obama should have considered two other APAs for nomination who just happen to have been the honorees at AABANY’s 2016 Annual Dinner, which took place on February 24. Lee, we could not agree with you more. Both Ivan Fong and Michelle Lee would make great United States Supreme Court justices. And kudos to incoming President Susan Shin, who had the foresight to honor Ivan and Michelle at this year’s Annual Dinner, for having such a keen eye for spotting major judicial talent. (By the way, the actual nominee, Merrick Garland, was formerly a Partner at Susan’s firm, Arnold & Porter.)

To read the full article, click on the link in the title. (Subscription required.)

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