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Dear Conference Participants,

Welcome to Columbia APALSA’s 10th Annual Conference, Writing Your Own Script! Each year we hold this event so law students and young attorneys can hear from experienced Asian lawyers and learn about the Asian perspective in the legal profession. This year we hope to engage in a discussion about the Asian experience post-law school and the ways members of our community have found success while maintaining a sense of their cultural identity, both inside and outside the legal profession. We hope that you will engage in the discussions that we have today, and that you will take these conversations back with you into your homes and workplaces.

Often, our success owes much to the trailblazing efforts of our community leaders. To celebrate them, Columbia APALSA began awarding the Hong Yen Chang award to graduates of Columbia Law School in recognition of their significant contributions to the APA legal community and beyond. Columbia APALSA is pleased to award the fourth annual Hong Yen Chang award to Charles Yu ’01. The award is named after Hong Yen Chang, who is reported to be the first Asian to legally acquire license to practice law in the United States. An immigrant from China, Chang was exempted from the Chinese Exclusion Act because he was a student and not a laborer. Chang began his legal studies at Columbia Law School and graduated in 1886. In 1887, Chang applied for admission to the New York State Bar, but was denied because he lacked citizenship status under the Chinese Exclusion Act. In response, the New York State Legislature passed an act that directly named Chang, waived for him the citizenship requirement, and granted him license to practice law provided that he passed the proper examinations. Chang was admitted to the New York State Bar in May 1888.

Many of us today who are now practicing law in the United States, or who soon will be, are a part of Hong Yen Chang’s legacy. This conference and gala is a way for us to celebrate our heritage, to recognize our community, and to reflect both on the path in front of us, and on the trail that we too have paved. SCHEDULE

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EST

Panel 1 Asian American Experience in the U.S.

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST

Panel 2 Asian Practitioners in Different Jurisdictions/Industries 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM EST

Panel 3 Keynote Panel with Charles Yu 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST

Panel 4 Cross-Generational Fireside Chat

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Networking Session with Kirkland and Skadden attorneys CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

VP of Special Events Long Dang Special Events Chair Yae Rin Kim

President Calvin Lee VP of Internal Affairs Elaine Huang VP of External Affairs Suzy Park VP of Communications Jenna Shin VP of Finance Daniel Yeo Professional Development Chairs Jiyoon Kim Kil Hyun Kim Public Interest Chairs Alison Hung Vivien Lee Caravan Chair In Young Kim Social Chair Hongxi Wang Membership Chair George Hsu 1L Representatives Jamie Lee Yi Bao Satyen Gupta Steven Hao Julia Zhu Sophia Han Allison Jeanne Spindler Amanda Yang LLM Representative Ryan Chua Transfer Rep Howard Kim 3L Reps Jeeyoon Chung Lawrence Ho HONG YEN CHANG AWARD RECIPIENT

CHARLES YU

Charles Yu ’01 is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which received the National Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares.

ASIAN AMERICAN PANEL ONE EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Nobuhisa Ishizuka is the Executive Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School, which has been an intellectual hub between the U.S. and Japan for over 30 years. He oversees the Center's programming and strategy and promotes scholarly exchanges between faculty and practitioners in the field.

Prior to joining the Center he was a Partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he advised on corporate and financial matters, with NOBUHISA a focus on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Several of his transactions have been cited ISHIZUKA by leading financial and business law publications Executive Director of the Center for their innovation or as “Deals of the Year”. for Japanese Legal Studies at

Columbia Law School Mr. Ishizuka has been recognized as a leading individual in Chambers Asia-Pacific and Chambers Global, and as a leading lawyer in IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms, Asia Pacific Legal 500 and Best Lawyers in Japan. He has published in Columbia Law Review, Commercial Law Review, and other legal publications.

Mr. Ishizuka has a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Senior Editor of the Columbia Law Review. He was a graduate research student at the University of Tokyo, where he currently teaches mergers and acquisitions. He is a member of the Board of Visitors at Columbia Law School, the Board of Visitors of Columbia College, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Japanese American Association of New York. ASIAN AMERICAN PANEL ONE EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Yang Chen is the Executive Director of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), a position he has held since August 2009. Mr. Chen is AABANY's first Executive Director. He has been active in AABANY for many years, having served on the Board and numerous committees, including the Judicial Affairs (now Judiciary) Committee, of which he was a chair. Mr. Chen served as AABANY's President in 2008. Before becoming AABANY's Executive Director, Mr. Chen was a partner at YANG CHEN Constantine Cannon, a law firm specializing in Executive Director of antitrust and complex commercial litigation. He was the Asian American among the group that founded the firm in 1994, Bar Association of which started as Constantine & Associates. New York

Before joining Constantine Cannon, Mr. Chen was an associate in the New York office of McDermott, Will & Emery, and before that he was associated with Breed, Abbott & Morgan (now Winston & Strawn). Mr. Chen is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Binghamton University. ASIAN AMERICAN PANEL ONE EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. 10:00 am - 11:00 am Karen specializes in vindicating the rights of employees and workers and advising employers in promoting fairer and more productive workplaces. She has over two decades of legal experience working with employees, workers, and immigrants, including over nine years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Labor Bureau at the New York State Attorney General, where she led investigations into labor violations in numerous industries, including the agricultural, greengrocer, moving, restaurant, and taxi industries.

KAREN KITHAN In addition, Karen has had varied law teaching and YAU policy-related experiences. She was a recipient of a Skadden Of-Counsel, Kakalec Law; Fellowship at the National Employment Law Project and a Co-Chair of AABANY Pro Robert M. Cover Teaching Fellowship at Yale Law School and Bono and Community held an assistant professorship at Syracuse University Service Committee College of Law. Karen also worked in management and leadership positions in not-for-profit policy and advocacy organizations.

Karen is active in bar associations and community organizations and sits on several boards of not-for-profit organizations. As a co-chair of the Pro Bono and Community Service Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY), she spearheads its Pro Bono Advice and Referral Clinic, a recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s 2019 Bar Leaders Innovation Award that has served thousands of clients since its founding in December 2015, and she oversees AABANY’s ever-expanding pro bono activities. In addition to AABANY, Karen is also a member of National Employment Law Association – National and New York Chapter, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the New York City Bar Association. ASIAN AMERICAN PANEL ONE EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Karen R. King is a partner at Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience in complex commercial litigation, BSA/AML and OFAC compliance and enforcement matters, securities litigation and regulation, internal investigations, and strategic advice. She is a skilled trial attorney and advocate, representing clients in numerous federal and state courts, and before U.S. regulators.

Karen has also been recognized for her KAREN KING commitment to pro bono work. She was the Partner, Morvillo recipient of the Federal Bar Council’s Thurgood Abramowitz Grand Iason & Marshall Award for Exceptional Pro Bono Service in Anello PC; Vice Chair of 2019, as well as the Pro Bono award from the AABANY Pro Bono and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Community Service She serves as the Vice Chair of the Pro Bono and Committee Community Service Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and is a member of the second Circuit Pro-Bono panel.

Karen received her J.D from Harvard Law School and her B.A. from Yale University. ASIAN AMERICAN PANEL ONE EXPERIENCE IN THE U.S. 10:00 am - 11:00 am

William Lee is an associate with the Structured & Warehouse Finance Team. He represents issuers, underwriters, lenders, mortgage servicers, investment banks, investors, and rating agencies in the securitization and financing of various classes of assets in the structured finance market.

Before joining Alston & Bird, William practiced law in the New York office of another international law firm. William earned his J.D. from New York University WILLIAM LEE Associate, Alston & School of Law, where he was co-chair of the Bird LLP; Vice Chair Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association, of AABANY Student and received his B.A. in philosophy from Cornell Outreach Committee University.

William is highly involved in pro bono endeavors, particularly within the Asian American community. He is the vice chair of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) Student Outreach Committee and actively mentors dozens of students. In conjunction with AABANY, William organized and moderated a small business COVID-19 relief presentation series. William also created AABANY’s Pro Bono Student Task Force and remains instrumental in developing COVID-19-related web content, social media, and door-to-door campaigns. He is a frontline volunteer for the Korean Community COVID-19 Pro Bono Hotline, composed of six attorneys who advise over 600 Korean speakers about SBA loan, unemployment and mortgage relief. William leads a bi-weekly brown bag lunch series where he invites diversity mentors to eat with his students. PANEL TWO ASIAN PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS/INDUSTRIES 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Charles Yi is a partner in the Financial Services Group at Arnold & Porter in DC. He previously served in senior positions in government, including as General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Staff Director and Chief Counsel of the Senate Banking Committee, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Banking and Finance at the Treasury Department, and Counsel for the House Financial Services Committee. CHARLES YI Partner, Arnold & Porter During his government service, Mr. Yi helped to DC enact and implement a number of key legislative initiatives, including the Dodd-Frank Act as well as the Troubled Asset Relief Program legislation during the height of the financial crisis.

Prior to government service, Mr. Yi practiced corporate and regulatory law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York and WilmerHale in DC.

Before attending law school Mr. Yi served for five years in the US Army as Captain in the Armored Cavalry. He received his JD from Columbia Law School, MPA from School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, MA from Bowie State University, and BS from UC Berkeley.

PANEL TWO ASIAN PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS/INDUSTRIES 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Esther Lim has twenty-five years of experience in patent litigation, portfolio management, licensing, and counseling. She has litigated extensively before federal district courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in complex matters involving a wide range of Photo Here technologies from electrical to mechanical to pharmaceutical. Esther served as the founding managing partner of Finnegan’s Shanghai office. She is the past president of the D.C. Bar with 110,000 members. ESTHER LIM Rooted in her values of equity and diversity, Esther is Partner, Finnegan active in bar leadership, community outreach, and pro bono work. She has served in leadership positions for many associations, including the D.C. Bar, ABA, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, APABA-DC, and NAPABA. Teaching as an adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law since 2003, she chairs its annual Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice (IIPSJ), which is nearing its 20th anniversary. She has handled a number of pro bono cases to assist individuals and families in need with safe housing, domestic relations, veteran’s benefits, and access to special education. She also volunteers at weekend legal clinics to assist low-income residents of the District of Columbia.

Esther has received recognitions from Chambers Global and was recognized as a leader in the field of intellectual property law by Chambers Asia. She was recognized as one of the Top 250 Women in IP Law by Managing Intellectual Property. Esther received the IP and Social Justice Award from Howard University School of Law in recognition of her contributions in promoting diversity in the legal profession and mentoring students of color. PANEL TWO ASIAN PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS/INDUSTRIES 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Kendrick is CEO and co-founder of Republic, a leading investment platform that gives people power to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on Photo Here creating a diverse, sustainable, connected world, Republic has facilitated over $250 million in investments from over one million global community members. With a team in six countries, Republic is backed by Binance, AngelList, Passport Capital, and more.

KENDRICK Prior to Republic, Kendrick served as General Counsel at AngelList and was a Fellow of Stanford Law School and the NGUYEN Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford CEO and Co-Founder, University. Republic As a former securities attorney, Kendrick has worked on several initiatives aimed at defining a compliant but pragmatic protocol for conducting compliant coin offerings, and has briefed the SEC, Congress, and foreign regulators on this issue.

An immigrant from Vietnam, Kendrick is passionate about creating fair access to capital for underserved entrepreneurs in the US and beyond. PANEL TWO ASIAN PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS/INDUSTRIES 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Iris Chen is a Deputy General Counsel in the Legal Department at Airbnb, Inc. where she leads a team of attorneys and legal professionals that support Airbnb’s product and marketing teams as well as managing the company’s intellectual property matters. Prior to joining Airbnb, Iris spent 14 years with Google as a Vice President in the Legal Department where she led a team of 145+ legal team members responsible for supporting global product development and all commercial transactions in North America and EMEA for Google’s advertising, commerce, payments, search, research, health, geo and supporting infrastructure services. Before joining Google, Iris was a corporate associate at Simpson Thacher Bartlett (2001-2004) and then Ropes & Gray (2004-2006) IRIS CHEN as an associate in the firm’s investment management Deputy General practice. Iris is a graduate of Yale College and Columbia Counsel, Airbnb Inc. Law School.

Outside of work, Iris is currently on the boards of the Columbia Law School Association and the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. She is also an advisory committee member for PracticePro, a San Francisco-based legal education startup focused on improving how new lawyers are trained and bringing more diversity to the legal profession. PANEL TWO ASIAN PRACTITIONERS IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS/INDUSTRIES 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Hyung Bak is General Counsel and Secretary at Warby Parker. He has been in this role since October 2019 and is responsible for managing legal, compliance and corporate governance matters at the company. Previously, Mr. Bak served for four years as Vice President, Group General Photo Here Counsel and Secretary for AmerisourceBergen Corporation.

Prior to AmerisourceBergen, he spent nine years at Campbell Soup Company in senior legal and business roles, including Vice President of Global Procurement, Chief Counsel to Campbell North America, and Chief of Staff to the CEO. HYUNG BAK General Counsel, Before Campbell Soup, Mr. Bak served as Associate General Warby Parker Counsel at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. He began his legal career in the New York offices of Covington & Burling and Sullivan & Cromwell, following a clerkship with the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Mr. Bak is a graduate of Harvard College, holds an MPA in Domestic Policy from Princeton University, and JD from Columbia University School of Law. PANEL THREE KEYNOTE PANEL WITH CHARLES YU 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Charles Yu is the author of four books, including his latest, Interior Chinatown, which received the National Book Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. He has received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, been nominated for two Photo Here Writers Guild of America awards for his work on the HBO series Westworld, and has also written for shows on FX, AMC, Facebook Watch, and Adult Swim. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Time and Ploughshares. CHARLES YU Author, Interior Chinatown PANEL THREE KEYNOTE PANEL WITH CHARLES YU 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Benjamin L. Liebman leads Columbia Law School’s Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the first institution of its kind at a U.S. law school. The center prepares students to take on leadership roles in Chinese law and provides them with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in China’s rapidly changing legal environment.

Widely known as a preeminent scholar of contemporary Chinese law, Liebman studies Chinese court judgments, the roles of artificial intelligence and big data in the Chinese legal system, Chinese tort law, Chinese criminal procedure, BENJAMIN L. and the evolution of China’s courts. His research has covered diverse topics in Chinese law over the years, LIEBMAN ranging from leniency in criminal law to medical dispute Robert L. Lieff resolution and securities markets. Professor of Law

In 2015, Liebman published Regulating the Visible Hand: The Institutional Implications of Chinese State Capitalism (Oxford University Press, with Curtis J. Milhaupt), which explores how extensive state intervention and participation drives China’s evolving economy—a critical contribution to the discourse surrounding China’s recent economic transformations.

Liebman’s expertise is highly sought after in academic and political spheres alike. He has consulted with both the U.S and Chinese governments on legal developments in China.

Professor Liebman also serves as the director of the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law.

Prior to joining the Law School’s faculty in 2002, Liebman was an associate in the London and Beijing offices of Sullivan & Cromwell. He also previously served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter and Judge Sandra Lynch of the 1st Circuit. PANEL FOUR CROSS-GENERATIONAL FIRESIDE CHAT 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Bert I. Huang is the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he has been awarded the Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching by the graduating class. In addition, Columbia University has honored him with its Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching. He previously also served as Vice Dean for Intellectual Life.

He served as the president of the Harvard Law Review and as a law clerk for Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. He BERT I. completed his J.D. and Ph.D. at Harvard University, where HUANG he was a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. After earning his A.B. at Michael I. Sovern Harvard College, he worked for the White House Council of Professor of Law at Economic Advisers and was a Marshall Scholar at the Columbia Law School University of Oxford.

At Columbia, he teaches Civil Procedure and Torts, as well as advanced seminars including the Courts & Legal Process workshop, which he created to bring judges, students, and faculty together to discuss new scholarship. He has been invited by Brazil’s constitutional high court to advise on issues of appellate procedure and by Taiwan’s constitutional grand justices to teach about the practices of the U.S. federal courts.

In his research he has studied how the law can influence norms and beliefs, in “Law’s Halo and the Moral Machine,” Columbia Law Review (2019); “Law and Moral Dilemmas,” Harvard Law Review (2016); and “Shallow Signals,” Harvard Law Review (2013).

He has also explored new ways of thinking about remedies, in “Coordinating Injunctions,” Texas Law Review (2020); “The Equipoise Effect,” Columbia Law Review (2016); “Concurrent Damages,” Virginia Law Review (2014); and “Surprisingly Punitive Damages,” Virginia Law Review (2014). PANEL FOUR CROSS-GENERATIONAL FIRESIDE CHAT 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Sarah A. Seo is a legal historian of criminal law and procedure in the 20th-century United States. Her recent book, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom, examines the history of the automobile to explain the evolution of the Fourth Amendment and to explore the problem of police discretion in a society committed to the rule of law. The book was named one of 2019’s ten best history books by Smithsonian Magazine and received several prizes, including the Order of the Coif Book Award, the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American SARAH A. SEO Historical Association, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award Professor of Law at from Phi Beta Kappa Society. In addition to publishing in Columbia Law School academic journals, Seo has written for The Atlantic, Boston Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Le Monde Diplomatique, The New York Review of Books, and Washington Post.

After earning her J.D. at Columbia Law School in 2007, Seo clerked for Judge Denny Chin, then of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Judge Reena Raggi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Seo taught at Iowa Law School before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 2020. PANEL FOUR CROSS-GENERATIONAL FIRESIDE CHAT 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, Justice Liu was sworn into office in 2011 and retained by the electorate in 2014. Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession. The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Justice Liu grew up in Sacramento, where he attended public schools. He went to Stanford University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1991. He attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a masters degree in philosophy and physiology. Upon Goodwin H. Liu returning to the United States, he went to Washington D.C. to Associate Justice, help launch the AmeriCorps national service program and worked California Supreme Court for two years as a senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service.

Justice Liu graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, becoming the first in his family to earn a law degree. He clerked for Judge David Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education. He went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 Term. From 2001 to 2003, he worked in the litigation practice of O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C.

Justice Liu continues to teach constitutional law as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute. He serves on the Council of the American Law Institute, on the Board of Directors of the James Irvine Foundation, and on the Yale University Council. He has previously served on the California Commission on Access to Justice, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, and the governing boards of the American Constitution Society, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Public Welfare Foundation. PANEL FOUR CROSS-GENERATIONAL FIRESIDE CHAT 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Denny Chin is a United States Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1994 to 2010, he served as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

In the District Court, Judge Chin presided over a number of notable matters, including cases involving Megan’s Law, the Million Youth March, the Naked Cowboy, and the Google Books project. He also presided over criminal trials involving the United Nations Oil for Food Program and an Afghan warlord charged with conspiring to import heroin, as well as the guilty plea and sentencing of financier Bernard L. Madoff. DENNY CHIN Circuit Judge for the In the Circuit Court, Judge Chin has authored opinions or dissents U.S Court of Appeals in cases involving the enforceability of arbitration clauses in for the Second Circuit on-line agreements, the General Motors bankruptcy, environmental regulations governing the discharge of ballast water from ships, the constitutionality of the government’s seizure and retention of computer hard drives, barriers to access for voters with disabilities, and the streaming of copyrighted television broadcasts over the Internet.

Judge Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and received his law degree from Fordham Law School, where he was managing editor of the Law Review. He clerked for the Honorable Henry F. Werker, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and was in private practice at Davis Polk & Wardwell, Campbell, Patrick & Chin, and Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C. Judge Chin and his wife Kathy Hirata Chin have been the principal authors of a number of scripts of reenactments of historic cases, including Fred Korematsu and His Fight for Justice, This Land Is Our Land: Oyama v. California; Constance Baker Motley, James Meredith, and the University of Mississippi; Justice Denied: Wards Cove v. Atonio; The Heart Mountain Draft Resisters: Conscience, Loyalty, and the Constitution; and 22 Lewd Chinese Women: Chy Lung v. Freeman. These programs have been presented all around the country, including at numerous law schools and universities. PANEL FOUR CROSS-GENERATIONAL FIRESIDE CHAT 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Kathy Hirata Chin is a Partner at Crowell & Moring LLP, where she moved in October 2018 with the rest of the healthcare practice group after 38 years at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. She is a member of the healthcare and litigation groups at Crowell. She has successfully represented health care providers and associations of such providers in challenges to actions taken by state and federal agencies, including multiple suits regarding Medicaid reimbursement issues, and in a variety of matters in state and federal court involving issues ranging from RICO claims based on allegedly fraudulent billing to Fair Labor Standards Act disputes. Ms. Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude and Columbia Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transnational Law. She served as KATHY Commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission from 1995 to 2001 and is currently Acting Chair of the New York City Commission to HIRATA CHIN Combat Police Corruption. She has served on the Federal Magistrate Partner, Crowell Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Eastern District of New York, & Moring LLP Governor Mario Cuomo's Judicial Screening Committee for the First Department, the Gender Bias Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force, former Chief Judge Judith Kaye’s Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections, the Second Circuit Judicial Conference Planning and Program Committee, the Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers Association, and the Board of Directors of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a non-profit that advocates for marginalized New Yorkers.

She currently serves on the Attorney Emeritus Advisory Council and the Commercial Division Advisory Council, appointed to both by former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York State Court of Appeals, and as Vice Chair on the Board of Directors of the Medicare Rights Center, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to helping older adults and people with disabilities get affordable health care. In December 2012 and again in December 2014, she was nominated for appointment to the New York State Court of Appeals by the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination. Since January 2016, she has been a member of the Second Circuit Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education & Public Engagement. In April 2016, she was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo to the First Department Judicial Screening Committee. In February 2018, Columbia APALSA honored Ms. Chin with its inaugural Hong Yen Chang award and the Asian American Bar Association of New York honored her with its Women’s Leadership Award. On May 28, 2019, Ms. Chin was honored at the Columbia Law School Alumni Association’s Hong Yen Chang Inaugural Reception for her dedication to the Asian Community. Information Regarding New York CLE Credits

Columbia Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. Under New York State CLE regulations, this live simultaneous transmission transitional and non-transitional CLE Program will provide 3.0 credit hours that can be applied toward the Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias Requirement. This CLE credit is awarded only to New York attorneys for full attendance of the Program in its entirety. Attorneys attending only part of the program are not eligible for partial credit. Attendance is determined by an attorney's submission of their Attorney Attendance Affirmation with appropriate course codes noted. On submission of the Attorney Attendance Affirmation, attorneys also should submit their completed Evaluation Form, provided by the program organizers. Please note the NYS Certificates of Attendance will be sent to the email address as it appears in the register unless otherwise noted there. OUR SPONSORS

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