AABANY Fall Conference 2015 Charting New Frontiers

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1Welcome 2Conference 3Acknowledgments AABANY Welcome Letter 4 Panel Sessions 16 Acknowledgments 58 Program 6 Lunch Plenary Session 22 AABANY Thanks Its Sponsors 61 History of AABANY 7 Trial Advocacy Program 23 Advertisements 62 Norman Lau Kee Trailblazer Award 8 Pitch Sessions 24 2015-2016 AABANY Officers 10 Diversity Career Fair & Expo 25 2015-2016 AABANY Directors 11 Biographies 26 Advisory Committee 2015 12 Committee Co-chairs 2015 13 Program Schedule 14 4 Welcome. Mabuhay. Xin chào. 환영합니다. ようこそ. 欢迎. स्वागत. 5

Award. We also honored An-Ping Hsieh, Further, Irene Chiu, 2011 Annual Dinner Dear AABANY Members Vice President, General Counsel, Hubbell Honoree, Vice President and General Counsel and all attendees: Incorporated, and presented him with the of GCA Therapeutics, was honored by the Corporate Counsel Leadership Award. Finally, National Diversity Council (NDC) as one I welcome you to AABANY’s 6th Annual we honored Jenny R. Yang, Chair, Equal of the recipients of the Most Powerful and Fall Conference: “Charting New Frontiers.” Employment Opportunity Commission, and Influential Women Award. AABANY is very excited to present this full presented her with the Women’s Leadership day of valuable professional opportunities. Award. We also presented the inaugural Looking ahead, we look forward to the Whether you are a 1st year law student or a recipients of the Don H. Liu Scholars Program, NAPABA Convention in New Orleans this seasoned practitioner, our flagship Annual Keli Huang and Michelle Li. year (November 2015). We eagerly anticipate Fall Conference has something for you. In the rest of the AABANY year and our 2016 addition to a full and diverse slate of CLE and In May, during Asian Pacific American Annual Dinner in February 2016 (at Cipriani non-CLE programming, our conference also Heritage Month, our Women’s Committee Wall Street). features the Trial Advocacy Program, law firm held its New York premier of “Kicking Glass pitch sessions, networking opportunities, a From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: I encourage and welcome everyone to get more plenary lunch session, and for the first time, Two Decades and Counting,” a video project involved in AABANY. Whether it is mentoring the Diversity Career Fair and Expo, where followed by panel discussion covering a law student, speaking on a panel, organizing AABANY provides a forum for first round the hurdles APA women face in the legal a social event, or just getting involved at interviews and employers hosting informational profession, the successes they have achieved, the committee level by planning a CLE – tables to provide information to prospective and what success means to them. Our lunch AABANY can provide you with valuable employees. plenary session today will include a screening professional opportunities. But you have to of the video followed by a panel discussion take the first step – become a member, sign up We are grateful to be hosted this year by Cleary that will seek to continue and expand the for a committee, and get involved. Connect Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. We would conversation. with us and chart your own new frontier. like to especially thank the firm for their gracious hospitality and generous sponsorship. In June, our Prosecutor’s Committee honored Respectfully, Over the years, AABANY and Cleary have been the family of Detective Wenjian Liu and wonderful partners and we hope to continue to Deputy United States Attorney for the work closely with Cleary in the future. Southern District, Joon Kim (a Cleary alum). Representatives from all five borough district We thank you, our members, supporters, attorneys offices were in attendance along with sponsors, fellow volunteers and practicing the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office attorneys for joining us today and sharing in and the Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget one of our key events of the year. Thank you Brennan. William Wang to our esteemed panelists and moderators for sharing your knowledge and expertise (as well AABANY’s list of special individual member as your time on a Saturday). accomplishments is too long to enumerate here but I would like to highlight two of our long- AABANY has had a very busy first half of standing members and past Annual Dinner the year. At our annual dinner, we honored honorees for their recent accomplishments. Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Parkin Lee, 2009 Dinner honoree and Advisory Southern District of New York, and presented Committee member, was named CEO of him with the Public Service Leadership Rockefeller Group Investment Management. 6

Program

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM to 9:00 AM 10:30 AM 12:15 PM

Breakfast MORNING SESSION 1 MORNING SESSION 2 Registration Panel Session 1 Panel Session 2 Trial Advocacy Program (TAP) Trial Advocacy Program (TAP) Session 1 Session 2 Pitch Sessions Pitch Sessions

12:30 PM to 2:15 PM to 4:00 PM to 2:00 PM 3:45 PM 5:30 PM

Lunch and Plenary Session — AFTERNOON SESSION 1 AFTERNOON SESSION 2 Kicking Glass Series Panel Session 3 Panel Session 4 Trial Advocacy Program (TAP) Trial Advocacy Program (TAP) Session 3 Session 4 Diversity Career Fair & Expo Diversity Career Fair & Expo

5:45 PM to 8:00 PM to 7:45 PM 10:00 PM

Cocktail Reception Committee Dinners Norman Lau Kee By separate registration with Trailblazer Award committees hosting dinners. Kickoff for 2015-2016 Mentorship Program 7

HISTORY OF AABANY

In 1988, the New York State Judicial past president of the American Immigration On January 12, 1991, AABANY held its first Commission on Minorities, headed by noted Law Association Benjamin Gim, Professor annual meeting, electing Serene Nakano, Doris African American attorney Franklin Hall Sharon Hom, AALDEF Program Director Ling-Cohan, Steve Min, Glenn Ikeda and Williams, examined the treatment of minority Stanley Mark, and former NYPD Deputy Marilyn Go as officers and Rockwell Chin, litigants and court employees. Following Commissioner Hugh Mo. All of the speakers Sylvia Fung Chin, Merlin Liu, Stanley Mark, hearings in New York City on June 29th and emphasized the unfulfilled need for AABANY. Qazi Moid and Judge Peter Tom as directors. 30th of that year, Rockwell Chin approached The reception was a resounding success, with Commissioner Serene K. Nakano to discuss the over 180 attorneys and law students attending. Now one of the most prominent and active need for an organization for Asian American Before the meeting concluded, over 60 people minority bar associations in New York, attorneys. While Chinese and Korean had joined AABANY. AABANY has well over 1,000 active members, American lawyer associations existed, there had including practicing attorneys in the private never been an association of Asian American AABANY, operating under an interim board and public sectors, in-house lawyers, judges, lawyers in New York. during its first year, hosted further receptions, professors and law students. including evening social events, as well as a Further impetus came when the National meeting at Brooklyn Law School at which Asian American Bar Association (later called Hoyt Zia, then the first President of NAPABA, NAPABA) Planning Committee invited spoke. Newly formed committees also sprang various attorneys in New York City to Chicago into action. The Issues Committee, co-chaired in October 1988. A core group, including by Rockwell Chin and Marilyn Go, began Rockwell Chin, Glenn Ikeda, Yat T. Man, Steve research on redistricting, assisted lobbying for Min and Serene K. Nakano, worked to found a bias crimes legislation and spoke out against formal association of Asian American lawyers: bias incidents. The Business Law Committee, drafting organizational documents, reaching co-chaired by Ken Chin and Marilyn Go, out to New York and nationwide bar groups, established a speaker series of prominent Asian and contacting other Asian American attorneys. American attorneys. The Events Committee hosted a Fall picnic. Prompted by concerns Announcing AABANY’s incorporation on raised by law students at the picnic, Chin October 20, 1989, the group invited attorneys Fong and James Minamoto established a to an inaugural reception at New York student mentor program, presenting a job University Law School on November 9, 1989. skills workshop to help law students hone Among the speakers were Judge Dorothy Chin interviewing skills. Brandt, Judge Randall Eng, Judge Peter Tom,

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NORMAN LAU KEE TRAILBLAZER AWARD

The Asian American Bar Association of New Rocky’s experience in civil rights spans decades. He York (AABANY) is proud to announce that has held several leadership positions, such as Assistant Rockwell ‘Rocky’ Chin is the recipient of the Norman Deputy Commissioner for Community Relations at Lau Kee Trailblazer Award this year at AABANY’s Sixth the New York City Commission on Human Rights. He Annual Fall Conference on September 19, 2015, held has helped New York City make significant strides in at the offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. the areas of immigration, labor, and disability rights.

Named for Norman Lau Kee, a revered legal and Rocky served as Director of the Office of Equal community pillar of New York City’s Chinatown for Opportunity & Diversity at the New York State decades, this Trailblazer Award honors an accomplished Division of Human Rights from April 2007 through leader in the legal profession of Asian Pacific American April 2015. He is currently the EEO investigator at the (APA) descent or dedicated to APA issues who New York State Insurance Fund. has carved a path for others to follow, served the community as a mentor and role model, and has made “In the more than quarter century since AABANY a lasting impact on the APA community through his or was founded, very few who are still active in AABANY her dedication and commitment. today can claim that they were there at the beginning. Rocky Chin is one of those rare individuals,” says Rocky is an attorney and a community activist. He has William Wang, President of AABANY. “Through his extensive experience working with the Asian American community activism and involvement, Rocky has not community and civil rights issues. only blazed a trail for us; he reminds us of AABANY’s roots in the community and continues to promote His work in the Asian American community has AABANY’s community ties. Rocky will never let us included: creating and teaching some of the first Asian forget that we must continue to advocate for APAs and American studies courses in the country; creating a other under-represented groups in New York. With bilingual childcare program for immigrant families; the Trailblazer Award we honor and recognize Rocky’s and coordinating the Asian Pacific American Heritage leadership, achievements and lasting legacy.” Festival in New York City. Rocky was a founding member of AABANY’s Board of Directors in 1989. He has also played an integral part in the early formation of organizations such as Asian American Law Fund of New York and Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. Rocky also served as President of the Asian American Arts Alliance. 10

2015 – 2016 AABANY Officers

President President-Elect Immediate Past President Vice President of William Wang Susan Shin Clara J. Ohr Finance and Development Office of the New York State Arnold & Porter LLP LUKOIL Pan Americas, LLC William Ng Attorney General Littler Mendelson PC

Vice President of Treasurer Membership Secretary Recording Secretary Programs and Operations Naf Kwun Irene Tan Ligee Gu Marianne Chow Lee Anav Chung AIG Property Casualty Halperin Battaglia Hearst Corporation White & Kim, LLP Benzija, LLP 11

2015 – 2016 AABANY Directors

Yang Chen Steve Chung Diane Gujarati Mike F. Huang Emily Kim Executive Director NBC Universal U.S. Attorney’s Office Boies, Schiller & Success Academy for the Southern District Flexner LLP Charter Schools of New York

Jean Lee Robert W. Leung Karen Lim Margaret T. Ling Bobby Liu JPMorgan Chase & Co. Boies, Schiller & Fross Zelnick Lehrman First Nationwide M.D. Sass Investors Flexner LLP & Zissu P.C. Title Agency, LLC Services, Inc.

Tristan Loanzon Sonia Low Larry Wee Pauline Yeung-Ha Loanzon LLP The ONE Group Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Grimaldi & Yeung LLP Hospitality Inc. Wharton & Garrison LLP 12

Advisory Committee 2015

Su Sun Bai Michael S. Kim Don H. Liu Chief Operating Officer, Partner, Kobre & Kim LLP Executive Vice President, General Morgan Stanley Bank, NA Counsel and Secretary, Richard K. Kim Xerox Corporation Yang Chen Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Executive Director, AABANY Clara J. Ohr Seth Krauss Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer, Sylvia F. Chin Chief Legal Officer, LUKOIL Pan Americas LLC Partner, White & Case LLP William Morris Endeavor Reginald M. Rasch James P. Chou Carol F. Lee General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Partner, Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP Special Counsel, Rakuten Marketing Taconic Capital Advisors LP Katherine M. Choo Michelle Rhee Chief Investigative & Anti-Corruption Jean Lee Managing Director, Associate General Counsel, General Electric Company Vice President & Assistant General Counsel, Bank of America Counsel, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Huhnsik Chung Dev R. Sen Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP Kenneth E. Lee Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Partner, Levine Lee LLP Mark Fung William Song General Counsel, Dandong Port Co., Ltd. Parkin Lee Chief Compliance Officer & Deputy Senior Vice President & Chief Legal General Counsel, Third Point LLC Andrew T. Hahn Officer, The Rockefeller Group Partner, Duane Morris LLP Michael Wu Yun G. Lee Senior Vice President, General Counsel An-Ping Hsieh Associate General Counsel, & Secretary, Carter’s Inc. Vice President & General Counsel, American International Group, Inc. Hubbell Incorporated Michael Yap Robert W. Leung Chief Legal Officer, International Benjamin C. Hsing Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Investments, Prudential Partner, Kaye Scholer LLP Sandra Leung Akiko Yamahara Mike Huang General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Global General Counsel, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Citi Private Bank

Dennis Hopkins Michael G. Lewis Dwight Yoo Partner, Patent Litigation, Partner, Bleakly Platt & Schmidt, LLP Partner, Capital Markets and Corporate Perkins Coie LLP Transactions, Skadden Arps Meagher Linda S. Lin & Flom LLP Joy Huibonhoa Senior Counsel - Senior Complex Claims Senior Vice President & Deputy General Director, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Counsel, Arch Capital Services, Inc. Insurance

Myung Kang-Huneke Bobby Liu Executive Vice President, General Chief Operating Officer & Counsel & Secretary, Sesame Workshop General Counsel, MD Sass 13

Committee Co-chairs 2015

Academic In-House Counsel Pro Bono & OPEN Blossom Kan Community Service Duane Morikawa June Lee Austin So Samuel Liu Audit Vina Ha Karen Lim Margaret Ling Intellectual Property Larry Wee Jane Chuang Professional Development Jenny Lee Francis Chin Stacy Wu Awards Mike Huang Prosecutors Issues Monica Huang Yan Cao James Lin Career Placement Song Kim Kin Ng Robert Leung Christopher M. Kwok Michael Park Irene Tan Real Estate Judiciary Margaret Ling Robert Leung Wendy Yu Commercial Bankruptcy Linda Lin Cary Chan & Restructuring Ligee Gu Jessica Liou Labor & Employment Law Solo & Small Firm Practice Vincent Roldan Christopher M. Kwok Cary Chan William Ng Tsui Yee Wendy Yu Compensation Pauline Yeung-Ha LGBT Glenn Magpantay Student Outreach Vicki Ger Corporate Law Jaclyn Sitjar Charlotte Kim Litigation Larry Wee Abraham Cho Dwight Yoo Carolyn Mattus Tax Sahang-Hee Hahn JoonBeom Pae Finance Membership Naf Kwun Amy Ngai Bobby Liu Jack Chen Women’s William Ng Irene Tan Sapna Palla Miyun Sung Tammy Wang Government Service & Military & Veterans Affairs Public Interest Brian Song Chai Park Young Lawyers Anita Wu Gabriel Arce-Yee Newsletter Karen Kithan Yau Amy Ngai Naf Kwun David Sohn Immigration & Nationality Law Nominations Amanda Bernardo William Wang Rio M. Guerrero Tsui Yee 14

TRACK A TRACK B TRACK C TRACK D (In-House + Judicial) 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Breakfast / Registration

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM 1A: Justice for All: LGBT 1B: Bankruptcy Issues for 1C: 2015 Tax Highlights: 1D: Exploring In-House Civil Rights and the API Commercial Litigators Emerging Federal Tax Legal and Non-Legal Community and SALT Issues Career Paths

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM 2A: Hot Topics in 2B: Business Development 2C: Legal Perspectives 2D: Pathways to Judiciary Immigration Law—What & Advancement for Firm on Continuing Evolution is the Current Status of Practitioners and In-House of Media Executive Action and Other Attorneys—What Works Immigration Measures? and What Doesn’t?

12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch and Plenary Session — Kicking Glass Series

2:15 PM – 3:45 PM 3A: Human Trafficking: 3B: Touching the NYC 3C: Racial Diversity 3D: General Counsel Modern Day Prosecution Skyline and How to Build in Casting: Changing Roundtable: Challenges to & Law Enforcement a High Rise Condominium the Game Adapting to Change Strategies

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM 4A: Affirmative Action, 4B: Introduction to 4C: The New Frontiers 4D: In-House Counsel Negative Action, & International Arbitration of Patent Law: Changing Forum (Invite Only) Neutral Action: Impact and Perspectives on Standards and on Admissions in Higher Recent Developments in New Challenges Education NY and Asia

5:45 PM – 7:45 PM COCKTAIL RECEPTION

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM COMMITTEE DINNERS *by separate registration with AABANY Committees hosting dinners 15

TRACK E TRIAL ADVOCACY PITCH SESSIONS DIVERSITY CAREER (APALSA / Law Students) PROGRAM (TAP) FAIR AND EXPO

Breakfast / Registration

TAP Session 1 Pitch Sessions

2E: Candid Advice from TAP Session 2 Pitch Sessions Recent Law School Graduates

Lunch and Plenary Session — Kicking Glass Series

3E: Navigating the Job TAP Session 3 Diversity Career Search Process Fair and Expo

TAP Session 4 Diversity Career Fair and Expo

COCKTAIL RECEPTION

COMMITTEE DINNERS *by separate registration with AABANY Committees hosting dinners Schedule 16

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 1A-1D change without notice.

use of adversary’s bankruptcy; “land mines” SPEAKERS — that litigators need to know; and obtaining 1A – JUSTICE FOR ALL: LGBT CIVIL JoonBeom Pae, Esq. discovery. Panelists will also discuss evolving RIGHTS AND THE API COMMUNITY AABANY Tax Committee Co-Chair, Special “hot topics” on issues such as jurisdiction and Counsel, Jenner & Block LLP venue. Panel will survey some of the most recent Sahang-Hee Hahn, Esq. developments in securing the rights and AABANY Tax Committee Co-Chair, equality for LGBT people by reviewing the SPEAKERS — Assistant Vice President & Counsel, state of same-sex marriage, educational Richard J. Corbi MassMutual Financial Group issues and school bullying, religious , Esq. Amish Shah exemptions, immigration, gentrification issues Term Law Clerk to Hon. Alan S. Trust, U.S. , Esq. impacting communities of color, and housing/ Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District NAPABA Tax Committee Chair, Partner, employment non-discrimination protections. of New York Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Presentation will emphasize the impact on James P. Chou, Esq. Jeff J. Kang, Esq. Asian Americans and other people of color. Partner, Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP AABANY Tax Committee Peer Group Mentor, Adam Novick Associate, Seward & Kissel LLP SPEAKERS — Regional Director of Business Development, Planet Data Solutions Clement Lee, Esq. MODERATOR — Staff Attorney, Rebecca Midori Ulich, Esq. Immigration Equality MODERATOR — AABANY Tax Committee Peer Group Mentor, Tom Lepak, Esq. Jessica Liou, Esq. Morrison & Foerster LLP Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Equal Senior Associate, Weil, Gotshal & Employment Opportunity Commission Manges LLP PROGRAM CHAIR — Hayley Gorenberg, Esq. Rebecca Midori Ulich, Esq. Deputy Legal Director, Lambda Legal PROGRAM CHAIR — AABANY Tax Committee Peer Group Mentor, Eugene Chen, Esq. Vincent Roldan Morrison & Foerster LLP Equal Justice Works Fellow, AABANY Commercial Bankruptcy & New York Legal Assistance Group Restructuring Co-Chair, Partner, Ballon Stoll Hosted by AABANY Tax Committee Bader & Nadler, P.C. CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional MODERATOR — Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. Hosted by AABANY Commercial Bankruptcy AABANY LGBT Committee Chair, & Restructuring Committee and AABANY Executive Director, National Queer Asian Litigation Committee 1D – EXPLORING IN-HOUSE LEGAL Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional AND NON-LEGAL PATHS Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional PROGRAM CHAIR — The discussion will focus on legal and non- legal in-house career paths. In addition to the Glenn D. Magpantay , Esq. 1C – 2015 TAX HIGHLIGHTS: traditional in-house legal positions, the panel AABANY LGBT Committee Chair, EMERGING FEDERAL TAX AND SALT will explore non-legal in-house positions in Executive Director, National Queer Asian ISSUES areas such as compliance, quasi-business Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA) and legal (non-practicing) positions within This year ushered in several key federal business units and other alternative career paths. The panelists will identify issues related Hosted by AABANY LGBT Committee and state tax developments, creating both opportunities and risks for taxpayers. As to training and experience prior to going in- CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional a result, now is the ideal time to discuss house, legal and non-legal skills to develop Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional emerging issues and trends in the area of tax. once in-house, and advancement. This panel will focus on several key federal and state tax developments, including U.S. SPEAKERS — 1B – BANKRUPTCY ISSUES FOR trade or business issues relating to loan COMMERCIAL LITIGATORS origination activities in the U.S.; corporate Jeff Ikejiri, Esq. inversions and their tax consequences; and Director-Legal & Regulatory, RGP Panel will introduce key bankruptcy issues state legislative updates in Connecticut and Tahmina Choudhury Rajib, Esq. that every commercial litigator should be able New York. Director, PAS Compliance, to spot and know, including the strategic Park Avenue Securities, GLIC 17

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 1D-2C change without notice.

Helen Ong, Esq. Melissa Chua, Esq. Susan L. Shin, Esq. Compliance and Privacy Executive Supervising Attorney, Immigrant Protection AABANY President-Elect, Partner, Michael Boyd, Esq. New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) Arnold & Porter LLP Managing Director and the head of the Annie Wang, Esq. Infrastructure, Power and Utilities team at Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense MODERATOR — NYL Investors LLC, a subsidiary of and Education Fund (AALDEF) New York Life Lawrence G. Wee, Esq. AABANY Corporate Law Committee MODERATOR — Co-Chair, AABANY Director, Partner, Paul, MODERATOR — Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Tsui Yee, Esq. Blossom Kan, Esq. AABANY Immigration Committee Assistant General Counsel, MetLife Co-Chair, Partner, Guerrero Yee LLP PROGRAM CHAIR — Lawrence G. Wee, Esq. PROGRAM CHAIR — PROGRAM CHAIR — AABANY Corporate Law Committee Duane Morikawa Amanda J. Bernardo Co-Chair, AABANY Director, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP AABANY In-House Counsel Committee Co- AABANY Immigration and Nationality Law Chair, Director and Senior Counsel, Natixis Committee, Brandes & Associates, LLC North America LLC Hosted by AABANY Corporate Law Committee and In-House Counsel Committee Hosted by AABANY Immigration and Hosted by AABANY In-House Counsel Nationality Law Committee *CLE credit is not offered for this program Committee and Career Placement Committee CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional *CLE credit is not offered for this program Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional 2C – LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONTINUING EVOLUTION OF MEDIA 2A – HOT TOPICS IN IMMIGRATION 2B – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND LAW – WHAT IS THE CURRENT STA- ADVANCEMENT FOR FIRM PRAC- The way that we create, consume and TUS OF EXECUTIVE ACTION, AND TITIONERS AND IN-HOUSE ATTOR- distribute media is now in a state of constant OTHER IMMIGRATION MEASURES? NEYS — WHAT WORKS AND WHAT change. There has never been a period of DOESN’T? time in our history where business models have been so rapidly disrupted by the Last November, President Obama announced introduction of new technology and ideas. his plans for an executive action that would In order to chart new frontiers, we need to And there has never been a time where have given Deferred Action to millions make more APA equity partners at large firms lawyers are so necessary to navigate how undocumented parents and youths; however, and have more APA attorneys promoted to businesses adapt and innovate. a federal court in Western Texas blocked the GC level in-house. Panel is designed to that executive action earlier this year. This give mid-level to senior attorneys practical advice from folks who have “been there” panel will discuss that litigation as well as SPEAKERS — developments in legislation for relatives of and “done that” and is also useful for junior U.S. military veterans, ICE detainers in NYC, attorneys wanting to plan ahead for their Cyna Alderman, Esq. and work authorization for new classes of careers. Senior Vice President, General Counsel, immigrants. Daily News Divya Jayachandran, Esq. SPEAKERS — Counsel at NBCUniversal SPEAKERS — Clara J. Ohr, Esq. Ravi Sitwala, Esq. Amanda J. Bernardo, AABANY Past President, Legal Counsel Esq. Senior Counsel, Hearst Corporation, Office of and Compliance Officer, LUKOIL Pan AABANY Immigration Committee Co-Chair, General Counsel Associate, Brandes & Associates, LLC Americas, LLC Rio Guerrero, Esq. Austin So, Esq. AABANY Immigration Committee Co-Chair, AABANY In-House Counsel Committee MODERATOR — Partner, Guerrero Yee LLP Co-Chair, Division General Counsel & Steve Chung, Esq. Secretary, Heraeus North America AABANY Director, Senior VP of News, NBCUniversal 18

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 2C-3B change without notice.

PROGRAM CHAIR — Hosted by AABANY Judiciary Committee and SPEAKERS — Career Placement Committee Steve Chung, Esq. Hon. Toko Serita AABANY Director, Senior VP of *CLE credit is not offered for this program New York City Criminal Court, News, NBCUniversal Queens County Amanda Kramer, Esq. 2E – CANDID ADVICE FROM Assistant United States Attorney, Hosted by AABANY In-House RECENT LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES Counsel Committee United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional This panel will offer candid advice from Jessica Melton, Esq. Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional recent law school graduates (2010-2015) who Assistant District Attorney, Queens County obtained employment outside the on-campus recruitment process. Panelists will discuss Rosie Wang, Esq. 2D – PATHWAYS TO THE JUDICIARY the importance of networking and how law Legal Fellow, Sanctuary for Families students can take charge of their own career. Join us for a large panel discussion as both MODERATOR — state and federal members of the judiciary present their own paths to the bench. The SPEAKERS — James Lin, Esq. panel presentation will be followed up with Charles Chen, Esq. Assistant District Attorney, an informal meet and greet where members Legal Counsel, HICKIES New York County District Attorney’s Office of the audience will be allowed to approach Gigio Ninan, Esq. the judges with questions regarding their own Managing Principal, Shankar Ninan & Co. individual path to the bench. This event is PROGRAM CHAIRS — Parag Parekh open to all Fall Conference attendees. , Esq. Monica Huang, Esq. Associate, Schwartz Sladkus Reich AABANY Prosecutors Committee Greenberg Atlas LLP Co-Chair and ADA in Bronx County SPEAKERS — Kin Ng, Esq. Hon. John Lansden MODERATOR — AABANY Prosecutors Committee New York City Housing Court Co-Chair and Chief of the Immigration Fraud Jaclyn Sitjar, Esq. Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan Unit in Kings County AABANY Student Outreach Committee New York State Supreme Court, Co-Chair, Senior Practice Development Appellate Term, First Department Specialist, Ropes & Gray LLP Hosted by AABANY Prosecutors Committee Hon. Kiyo Matsumoto United States District Judge for the CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Eastern District of New York PROGRAM CHAIR — Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional Hon. Delissa Ridgway Keli Huang United States Court of International Trade Don H. Liu Scholar 3B – TOUCHING THE NEW YORK Hon. Noel Brennan CITY SKYLINE AND HOW TO BUILD New York City Immigration Court Hosted by AABANY Student A HIGH RISE CONDOMINIUM (in her personal capacity) Outreach Committee *CLE credit is not offered for this program Program will cover how to build a new condominium in New York City from beginning MODERATOR — to the end and how old buildings, empty lots, Peggy Kuo, Esq. blighted areas in areas such as Williamsburg, 3A – HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel, the Bronx, Long Island City, etc. have come MODERN DAY PROSECUTION & New York City Office of Administrative Trials to life with new condo development creating LAW ENFORCEMENT STRATEGIES and Hearings new and vibrant neighborhoods.

An update on human trafficking and how PROGRAM CHAIR — changes in the law and changes in public SPEAKERS — perception and opinion have modified how Linda Lin Marissa Piesman, Esq. these types of cases are investigated and AABANY Judiciary Committee Co-Chair, Assistant Attorney General, Former Bureau prosecuted. We will also discuss the new Senior Counsel-Senior Complex Claims Chief and Special Counsel, Real Estate challenges that face law enforcement today Director, Berkshire Hathaway Finance Bureau of the New York State due to technological advances. Specialty Insurance Attorney General’s Office 19

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 3B-3D change without notice.

Yao Bailey, Esq. can change the game to achieve more racial Partner, Duane Morris LLP diversity in mainstream media productions 3D – GENERAL COUNSEL through advocacy or legal remedies? Katherine Hwang, Esq. ROUNDTABLE: CHALLENGES IN Assistant Attorney General, Real Estate ADAPTING TO CHANGE Finance Bureau, New York State Attorney SPEAKERS — General’s Office The panel will discuss the challenges in Jennifer Betit Yen, Esq. Lisa Lim adapting to changes in their respective , Esq. President, Asian American Film Lab Partner, Ackerman businesses and industries (e.g. data Christine Toy Johnson security, reputational risks, globalization, Conlyn Chan , Esq. Steering Committee Member, etc.), the applicable legal and/or regulatory Senior Vice President, Starbridge Commercial Asian American Performers Action Coalition requirements, changes in the role or structure Huseina Sulaimanee, Esq. of legal departments (e.g. creation of centers of excellence structures, globalization, MODERATOR — Counsel, SAG-AFTRA etc.), and the use of outside counsel and Margaret Ling, Esq. Adam Moore timing of engagement. The panel will also AABANY Real Estate Committee National Director, EEO & Diversity, discuss issues related to development and Co-Chair, AABANY Director, Vice President SAG-AFTRA advancement, and how to become a GC. and Senior Counsel, First Nationwide Title Agency, LLC MODERATOR — SPEAKERS — Jane Chuang, Esq. Lee Cheng, Esq. PROGRAM CHAIR — AABANY Intellectual Property Committee Chief Legal Officer, SVP of Corporate Margaret Ling, Esq. Co-Chair, Partner, Lee Anav Chung White Development and Corporate Secretary, AABANY Real Estate Committee & Kim LLP Newegg.com Co-Chair, AABANY Director, Vice President Michael C. Wu, Esq. and Senior Counsel, First Nationwide Title Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Agency, LLC PROGRAM CHAIRS — Secretary, Carter’s Inc. Jane Chuang, Esq. AABANY Intellectual Property Committee Craig Silliman, Esq. Hosted by AABANY Real Estate Committee Co-Chair, Partner, Lee Anav Chung White Executive Vice President – Public Policy and and Solo and Small Firm Practice Committee & Kim LLP General Counsel, Verizon Communications CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Michael Finn, Esq. Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional Senior Vice President & General Counsel and Wan Chieh Jenny Lee , Esq. Corporate Secretary, Axalta Coating Systems AABANY Intellectual Property Committee 3C – RACIAL DIVERSITY IN Co-Chair, Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP CASTING: CHANGING THE GAME Stacy Wu, Esq. MODERATOR — AABANY Intellectual Property Committee Sung Kwan Kang, Esq. This year, a number of mainstream Co-Chair, Fross, Zelnick, Lehrman & Zissu, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP productions featuring diverse casts have or P.C. will make their debut, including Fresh Off the Shannon Zhu, Esq. Boat, a TV sitcom about an Asian American AABANY Intellectual Property Committee PROGRAM CHAIR — family’s move from D.C.’s Chinatown to the Vice Chair Duane Morikawa suburbs of Florida, and Allegiance, a musical AABANY In-House Counsel Committee about the Japanese American internment Co-Chair, Director and Senior Counsel, camps, scheduled to open on Broadway Hosted by AABANY Intellectual Natixis North America LLC in the fall. Despite the apparent growth in Property Committee diverse casting, the opportunities for actors CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional of color (particularly those of Asian descent) Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional Hosted by AABANY In-House have remained limited and are the subject Counsel Committee of controversial “whitewashing”, “yellow CLE: 1.5 credits, Law Practice Management, face”, or “not-ethnic-enough” treatment. Non-Transitional only. Transitional NYS Traditionally, anti-discrimination laws have not attorneys will not receive credit for applied to casting decisions under the rubric this program. of the artistic freedom and business necessity defenses, but as our society becomes increasingly diverse, are there ways that we 20

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 3E-4B change without notice.

3E – NAVIGATING THE JOB 4A – AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, 4B – INTRODUCTION TO SEARCH PROCESS NEGATIVE ACTION, & NEUTRAL INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION ACTION: IMPACT ON ADMISSIONS AND PERSPECTIVES ON RECENT This panel will cover topics including IN HIGHER EDUCATION DEVELOPMENTS IN NEW YORK interviewing, career planning, networking, AND ASIA and utilizing various bar associations and The panel will focus on Asian Americans organizations for law students to jump-start and Affirmative Action in higher education In the growing field of international arbitration, their career. admissions. In anticipation of Fisher vs. Asian Americans are well-positioned to be University of Texas, which the Supreme Court successful practitioners, both as advocates has decided to reconsider next term, it is a and as arbitrators. This session will provide SPEAKERS — particularly timely subject to consider. Asian an introduction to this vibrant and specialized Emily L. Chang, Esq. Americans have been caught in the “middle” area of practice. The panel also will share their Law Clerk, Hon. Kiyo A. Matsumoto, almost from the start of the Affirmative Action knowledge of emerging trends in Asia and USDJ, EDNY (2011-12) debate. Should we oppose the policy if it New York that any lawyer seeking to better lowers Asian American enrollment ? Should understand this field will want to know. Dennis Hopkins, Esq. we support it because we are part of a AABANY Advisory Board Member, Partner, broader minority coalition ? Or can we have it Perkins Coie LLP both ways? This panel will be an opportunity SPEAKERS — William Wang , Esq. to learn more about the subject from two Theodore Cheng, Esq. AABANY President, New York State Assistant articulate thinkers on the topic. Partner, Fox Horan & Camerini LLP Attorney General (Charities Bureau) Tong Wang, Esq. SPEAKERS — Partner, Rosensteel Law MODERATOR — Lee Cheng, Esq. Liang-Ying Tan, Esq. Paula T. Edgar, Esq. Chief Legal Officer, SVP of Corporate Associate, Herbert Smith Freehills Principal of PGE, LLC, President-Elect of Development and Corporate Secretary, New York LLP Metropolitan Black Bar Association Newegg.com Christian P. Alberti, Esq. Elizabeth R. OuYang, Esq. AVP/Director, American Arbitration Association PROGRAM CHAIR — Adjunct Professor, Columbia University and New York University Keli Huang Don H. Liu Scholar MODERATOR — MODERATOR — Allison M. Alcasabas, Esq. Christopher M. Kwok Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Hosted by AABANY Student , Esq. New York LLP Outreach Committee AABANY Labor & Employment Law Co-Chair and Mediation Unit Supervisor at the Equal *CLE credit is not offered for this program Employment Opportunity Commission PROGRAM CHAIR — Allison M. Alcasabas, Esq. PROGRAM CHAIRS — Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills New York LLP Karen Yau, Esq. AABANY Government Service & Hosted by AABANY Judiciary Committee and Public Interest Committee Co-Chair ADR Subcommittee of Litigation Committee Christopher M. Kwok , Esq. CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional AABANY Labor & Employment Law Co-Chair Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional and Mediation Unit Supervisor at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Hosted by AABANY Government Service & Public Interest Committee CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional 21

Panelist information subject to Panel Session 4C-4D change without notice.

4C – THE NEW FRONTIERS 4D – IN-HOUSE COUNSEL FORUM OF PATENT LAW: CHANGING (INVITE ONLY) STANDARDS AND NEW CHALLENGES Open discussion by participating in-house counsels on a variety of issues as well as Recent decisions from the Federal Circuit opportunity to connect with other in-house and Supreme Court have tackled a variety of attorneys. key issues, including the ability to challenge a patent’s validity, the patent eligibility of software and business methods, the PROGRAM CHAIR — standard for patent indefiniteness, and Duane Morikawa the standard for awarding attorneys’ fees. AABANY In-House Counsel Committee Co- In the new landscape, one in which the Chair, Director and Senior Counsel, Natixis eligibility – and hence validity – of many North America LLC patents has been thrown into question by the Supreme Court’s Alice and Myriad cases, and where challenging the validity of Hosted by AABANY In-House patents at the Patent Office has proven quite Counsel Committee successful, patentees and challenges alike *CLE credit is not offered for this program must reconsider their litigation, monetization and prosecution strategies and develop approaches to address these changes. The panel will provide practical strategies for navigating the changing patent landscape and best practices for charting a pathway for their clients and organizations in face of these changes.

SPEAKERS — Matthew Michaels, Esq. Corporate Counsel – Litigation, MetLife Karen Shen, Esq. Corporate Counsel, Pfizer Joseph Casino, Esq. Partner, Wiggin and Dana LLP

MODERATOR — Sapna Palla, Esq. AABANY Women’s Committee Co-Chair, Partner, Wiggin and Dana, LLP

PROGRAM CHAIR — Sapna Palla, Esq. AABANY Women’s Committee Co-Chair, Partner, Wiggin and Dana, LLP

Hosted by AABANY Intellectual Property Committee CLE: 1.5 credits, Areas of Professional Practice, Transitional/Non-Transitional 22

Lunch Plenary Session

SPEAKERS — LUNCH PLENARY SESSION – Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan KCKING GLASS: TWO DECADES New York State Supreme Court, AND COUNTING Appellate Term, First Department Sandra Leung, Esq. Addressing the important question of what Executive Vice President, General Counsel it means to be an Asian American female and Corporate Secretary, Bristol-Myers attorney, Kicking Glass: Two Decades and Squibb Company Counting is a groundbreaking follow-up Clara J. Ohr program to AABANY’s video first presented , Esq. twenty years ago at the National Asian AABANY Past President, Pacific American Bar Association (“NAPABA”) Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer, Convention in 1995. LUKOIL Pan Americas, LLC Ryan Park, Esq. The first Kicking Glass video in 1995 Associate, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP discussed the position of Asian American Saira Haider, Esq. women in the legal profession and featured Associate, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP several Asian American women lawyers who discussed the hurdles they faced, the successes they achieved, and what MODERATOR — success meant to them. Among the issues addressed in the video were the “Asian Sapna Palla, Esq. woman” stereotype, how to get recognition AABANY Women’s Committee Co-Chair, for one’s work, parity in the workplace, and Partner, Wiggin and Dana, LLP achieving a work/life balance. Kicking Glass: Two Decades and Counting examines those same questions twenty years later, exploring PROGRAM CHAIR — both how far Asian American female attorneys Sapna Palla, Esq. have advanced and how much more AABANY Women’s Committee Co-Chair, progress needs to be made. Kicking Glass: Partner, Wiggin and Dana, LLP Two Decades and Counting features both women from the 1995 video and other Asian American women attorneys in different stages Hosted by AABANY Women’s Committee of their legal careers. CLE: 1.5 credits, Ethics and Professionalism, Transitional/Non-Transitional Following the video will be a panel discussion to elaborate on the perspectives of those attorneys and identify what challenges remain. 23

Trial Advocacy Program (TAP)

Now in its 4th year, AABANY TAP will provide Confirmed faculty members include veteran TAP participants will be assigned a partner participants the opportunity to conduct their trial lawyers: in advance of the Fall Conference. They own openings, directs, cross- examinations, will receive the course materials before and closings and receive critique from • Kevin F. Murphy, Esq., Garson Segal the program and are expected to be fully our trained faculty. The TAP emulates the Steinmetz Fladgate LLP familiar with them. A directory of faculty and well- known NITA (National Institute for Trial • Anna R. Mercado Clark, Esq., Phillips participants (and identification of who will Advocacy) Trial Skills programs, which is Lytle LLP be partnered together) will be emailed to typically a week-long program that employs • Yasuhiro Saito, Esq., Saito Sorenson participants. It is mandatory for participants the “learning-by-doing” method by having Lurie LLP to have thoroughly reviewed the course attendees practice and improve upon their • Umar A. Sheikh, Esq., Of Counsel, materials, coordinate, and prepare on their trial advocacy skills. A faculty of experienced Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C. own AND with their partner prior to the Fall trial attorneys and judges will discuss the • Tristan C. Loanzon, Esq., Loanzon LLP Conference. basics of trial and provide personalized and • Samuel Yee, Esq. invaluable critique and tips. In the past years, • Joe Gim, Esq., Chief of the Crime AABANY is certified by the New York State U.S. District Court Judges Pamela K. Chen Strategies Unit for the Richmond County Continuing Legal Education Board as an and Lorna G. Schofield, and Supreme Court District Attorney’s Office (Staten Island) Accredited CLE Provider. This program Justices Doris Ling-Cohan and Jeffrey K. • Concepcion Montoya, Esq., Partner, has been approved in accordance with Oing have served as TAP keynote speakers. Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP the requirements of the CLE Board for a • David Mou, Esq., Assistant Corporation maximum of 6 credit hours toward the Skills This year, we are proud to welcome U.S. Counsel, Labor and Employment Division requirement. This program is suitable for both District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto as our at the New York City Law Department transitional and non-transitional New York keynote speaker. • Rodney Villazor, Esq., Partner, DLA Piper attorneys. • Steve Madra, Esq., The Madra Law Firm • Vinoo Varghese, Esq., Varghese & Assocs. P.C. • Victor Olds, Esq., Lecturer-in Law, Columbia Law School • Susan Halatyn, New York City Law Department. 24

Pitch Sessions

AABANY’s Corporate Law Committee and In-House Counsel Committee are proud to present the Pitch Sessions at the 2015 Fall Conference, which provide participants an opportunity to engage in live pitch sessions to in-house counsel who have indicated a need for outside legal services. This event also provides a benefit to in-house counsel by offering them an efficient platform for meeting qualified outside legal service providers.

For the first time, the Pitch Sessions will also be opened to legal service providers who are Elite or Gold Sponsors of this year’s Fall Conference and who will have an opportunity to pitch their services to participating in-house counsel and/or law firm attorneys.

Law firms and legal service providers seeking to participate in the Pitch Sessions are pre- screened by in-house counsel and/or law firm attorneys, as applicable, based on their hiring needs and selected firms and legal service providers are invited to join one or more pitch sessions at the 2015 Fall Conference. This year, we successfully matched law firms and legal service providers with one or more of the following participating companies:

• Heraeus Incorporated • IBM • Joy Systems, Inc • LUKOIL Pan Americas, LLC • MetLife • Moelis & Company • Natixis North America LLC • NBCUniversal • The ONE Group Hospitality, Inc. • World Class Capital Group

We at AABANY sincerely thank all in-house counsel, law firm attorneys and legal service providers who participated and helped make this year’s Pitch Sessions a success. 25

Diversity Career Fair & Expo

AABANY’s Career Placement Committee is Employers Conducting First Round hosting its inaugural Diversity Career Fair Interviews On Site: and Expo at the 2015 Fall Conference. The Diversity Career Fair will feature selected • Bronx County District Attorney’s Office public sector and corporate sector employers • Kings County District Attorney’s Office who will host informational sessions, meet • Nassau County District Attorney’s Office and greet interested applicants, and in • New York County District Attorney’s Office some instances, conduct first round on-site • New York City Law Department interviews. In addition, attendees will have an • Queens County District Attorney’s Office opportunity to meet members of AABANY’s • Success Academy Charter Schools Career Placement Committee and receive career advice as well as learn more about Employers Attending and other job openings. Hosting Informational Tables:

AABANY’s Career Placement Committee • Bronx County District Attorney’s Office was formed to match qualified AABANY • Eastern District of New York, US Attorney’s members with available legal positions. Office (Civil Division) The Committee runs the AABANY Career • Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Exchange which serves as a clearinghouse for (FINRA) all legal positions brought to its attention and • International Business Machines proactively seeks to match qualified AABANY Corporation (IBM) candidates with such open positions. • JPMorgan Chase & Co. AABANY members who are aware of open • Kings County District Attorney’s Office legal positions or who are actively seeking • Legal Aid Society of Northeastern NY or considering seeking a new position are • Legal Services NYC (represented by encouraged to contact Committee Co-Chairs. Manhattan Legal Services and Queens Legal Services) The Career Placement Committee Co-Chairs • Manhattan Legal Services are Robert W. Leung, Michael Park and Irene • MassMutual Financial Group Tan. Please contact the Career Placement • Mental Hygiene Legal Service Committee by emailing [email protected]. • NBCUniversal • Office of the New York State Attorney General • Queens County District Attorney’s Office • Queens Legal Services • RGP Legal • Richmond County District Attorney’s Office • Southern District of New York, US Attorney’s Office • Success Academy Charter Schools • U.S. Navy JAG Corps 26 Biographies

in the federal district court of the District of Columbia. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association of New York.

CHRISTIAN P. ALBERTI ALLISON M. ALCASABAS

Christian P. Alberti is the AVP/Director Allison is a partner in the Herbert Smith of the International Centre for Dispute Freehills New York office who recently Resolution (ICDR), the international division returned to the United States after working for CYNA ALDERMAN of the American Arbitration Association over a year with the dispute resolution team in (AAA). He supervises the ICDR’s staff and the firm’s Hong Kong office. center management activities and oversees Cyna Alderman is a senior executive team hundreds of large complex multi-party Allison has over two decades of experience in member valued for conceptualizing and arbitrations and mediations covering all types advising and defending global clients involved implementing corporate development of disputes and industries each year. Prior to in complex commercial litigation throughout initiatives and legal partnership opportunities, joining the ICDR in 2005, Christian headed the the United States and internationally. creating innovative solutions for success. Italian Desk of a mid-size law firm in Germany. She has defended lawsuits brought by In 2013, Cyna successfully launched the individual plaintiffs, class action plaintiffs, Daily News Innovation Lab, a program with Christian is the former President and consumer groups, healthcare providers and a mission to transform media together. The Honorary Member of the Alumni Association governmental entities involving claims for Innovation Lab offers early-stage startups of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial personal injury, consumer fraud and economic the opportunity to collaborate with the Arbitration Moot (MAA). He is regularly invited damages. She has represented clients in the Daily News on projects that address media to speak at international conferences and consumer products, oil and gas, banking and industry needs. The Innovation Lab also guest lectures at various law schools about aviation industries, among others. hosts Conversations, a bi-monthly event international arbitration and mediation in the series that brings together members of the United States and abroad. He successfully While in Hong Kong, Allison focused on tech and business communities to discuss coaches New York University’s Vis Moot Team corporate crime and investigations work, the changing media landscape. Cyna has since 2007 and its Foreign Direct Investment advising multinational clients in connection been the Company’s Senior Vice President Moot Team since 2008. He is an associate with internal and regulatory investigations and General Counsel since 2007, appointed of Pace University’s Institute of International arising under international anti-corruption and after working for the Daily News and its Commercial Law, a founding member of the anti-bribery laws, as well as “whistleblower” affiliated companies in positions of increasing International Arbitration Club of New York as complaints. responsibility since 2001. Prior to joining the well as a member of various international ADR Daily News, Cyna was a corporate associate associations. Allison’s experience includes litigating at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett specializing in actions around the US, including multiple mergers & acquisitions and securities. Cyna is After studies at the Philipps-University trials involving multimillion dollar claims in a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania of Marburg, the German University for New York, Missouri, and Washington State. and New York University Law School. Administrative Sciences Speyer (DHV) and the She has litigated foreign cases in both civil University of Queensland he was admitted to law and common law jurisdictions, and led practice law in Germany in 2003 and in the the teams that obtained case dismissals in State of New York in 2011. He obtained an countries such as France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, LL.M. from Tulane University Law School in the Netherlands, Finland, Russia, Sri Lanka 2002. and Israel.

He speaks fluent English, German, Italian and Allison is admitted to practice in federal has basic knowledge of French. and state courts in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Washington State, and 27 Biographies

AMANDA J. BERNARDO

Amanda is a second-year Associate Attorney in a small firm, Brandes & Associates, LLC, which specializes in Immigration and Nationality Law. As a blossoming attorney, she has honed her skills defending immigrants from removal. Prior to joining Brandes & Associates, LLC, Amanda spent one year handling all immigration matters in a general practice firm also located in Manhattan. Amanda graduated in 2012 from Brooklyn Law School, where she was a member of the Moot Court Honors Society Trial Advocacy Division. Amanda earned her baccalaureate degree from American University in Washington, DC, where she graduated summa cum laude with honors. YAO BAILEY HON. NOEL BRENNAN

Yao Bailey focuses her real estate practice MICHAEL BOYD Judge Brennan was appointed to the United on commercial leasing, commercial and States Immigration Court in New York in residential acquisitions and construction Michael Boyd is a Managing Director and the August 2003. Prior to that she served for 3 contracts. Her clients include owners, head of the Infrastructure, Power and Utilities years on the Board of Immigration Appeals architects and contractors, as well as team at NYL Investors LLC, a subsidiary of the highest administrative body for reviewing cooperative and condominium boards. Bailey New York Life. Michael joined New York Life immigration decisions. From 1993 to 2000 also advises clients on state architecture in 2004 and previously served in its Office she served as a political appointee under licensing, the establishment and operation of of the General Counsel. Prior to joining the Attorney General Janet Reno as Deputy various types of corporate entities and their company, he was an attorney with Latham Assistant Attorney General for the Office organizational documents and certain related & Watkins LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus of Justice Programs. From 1987 until 1993 employment and immigration matters. Deringer LLP, with a focus on project finance. Judge Brennan was an Assistant United He has been active in the private placement States Attorney in the District of Columbia. A native speaker of Mandarin, Bailey was market for 17 years. She is a 1985 graduate of the Georgetown previously a practicing lawyer in China. University Law Center where she served Admitted to practice law in New York since Michael holds a B.A. from Earlham College on the adjunct faculty for 10 years. After 1999, she assists U.S. architectural firms and a J.D. from Georgetown University. law school, Judge Brennan clerked for in establishing their Chinese operations, Magistrate/Judge Patrick Attridge on the U.S. negotiating design contracts with Chinese District Court for the District of Columbia. She owners and registering trademarks in China. is a member of the New York and DC bars. She also represents Chinese clients in the Since moving to NYC in 2003 she has been a U.S. in connection with real estate purchases member of various bar associations including and commercial leasing. The Bar Association of the City of New York and the Lesbian & Gay Law Association of Bailey earned her LL.M. in Asian and Greater New York (LeGal). Judge Brennan is Comparative Law from the University of the pro bono coordinator for 26 Federal and Washington School of Law, and she received Varick Street immigration courts. She is a her LL.B. in international economic law from member of the New York Federal Bar Council Peking University School of Law in Beijing. (FBC) Public Service Committee and FBC She often presents seminars and workshops Inn of Court and serves on the Study Group on real estate, construction and architectural for Immigrant Justice established in 2008 by law. the Honorable Robert Katzmann. Since 2003 Judge Brennan has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Fordham Law School. 28 Biographies

JOSEPH CASINO CONLYN CHAN EMILY L. CHANG

Joe is a partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Conlyn is a true global citizen. She was born Emily Lee Chang graduated from the Intellectual Property Practice. He has 19 in Canada, raised in Taiwan, and educated in University of Wisconsin in 2005 with a B.B.A. years of experience in patent litigation in over the US, Canada, Taiwan, and China. Having with distinction in marketing and a certificate 100 cases, and has been the lead or co- practiced law in both the US and China, in criminal justice. She received her J.D. from lead in all of them in the past several years. she is now on the transactional side. Conlyn Harvard Law School in 2008. He has also advised clients on complex is the Senior Vice President of Starbridge licensing matters, patent monetization issues, Commercial. She advises both domestic and From 2008 to 2011, Ms. Chang practiced patent prosecution and strategic counseling international clients, including developers, at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the White Collar with regard to avoiding or proving patent private equity firms, pension funds, family and Government Investigations Department. infringement. offices, and REITs. From 2011 to 2012, she clerked for United States District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto in Joe has frequently written and lectured She was active with the Asian American Bar – the Eastern District of New York. Following on the topics of patent monetization and DC chapter since law school. She started her her clerkship and until September 2015, Ms. valuation, including articles directed to how law career as a litigator in New York. Conlyn Chang practiced commercial civil litigation lawyers should approach these disciplines was nominated for the “Best of Best” Award at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP. that require legal acumen and business at Metlife Insurance for her excellence in Beginning in November 2015, she will serve savvy. Joe recently published an article in negotiation and advocacy. Conlyn returned as an Assistant United States Attorney in the the Complex Litigation Section of the New to Asia in 2007 and studied Chinese law at Middle District of Florida. York Law Journal on how recent changes Fudan University. She joined Hogan Lovell’s to patent law has changed how companies Shanghai office in the real estate group. Ms. Chang is the author of Trading Kidneys should approach monetization of their patent for Prison Time: When Two Contradictory portfolio. Conlyn was involved with a luxury fashion Legal Traditions Intersect, Which One Has start-up. In 2012 and 2013, Conlyn was the Right-of-Way?, 43 U.S.F.L. Rev. 507 ranked as the Top 100 Most Influential Women (2009). In 2014 and 2015, Ms. Chang was in China. selected to the New York Rising Stars list, which is comprised of the top up-and-coming Conlyn received her Bachelor of Commerce attorneys who are under 40 or have been with Distinction from McGill University and her practicing for ten years or less. LL.B. from the University of Western Ontario. She has an Advanced Certificate from Fudan University. She has lectured at the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, France and co- authored the book Luxury Brands in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan).

She was a Co-Chair of the Women’s Committee of AABANY and also acted as the Legal Counsel for the Shanghai Boat & Yacht Club. Currently, Conlyn is the Legal Chair and Board Member of the Asian Association of Alternative Investment Professionals. 29 Biographies

CHARLES CHEN EUGENE CHEN LEE CHENG

Charles Chen is an In-House IP Attorney Eugene Chen is an Equal Justice Works Lee Cheng is the Chief Legal Officer, SVP and Head of Global Brand Protection at Fellow sponsored by the Paul Rapoport of Corporate Development and Corporate HICKIES. As the first in-house attorney, Foundation in the LGBTQ Law Project of the Secretary for Newegg.com, a $2.75B global he is responsible for the oversight and New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). internet retailer. He oversees or has run management of the company’s intellectual In this capacity, he provides direct services, Newegg’s Legal, Corporate Development, property, including patents, trademarks, legal advocacy, and education to low-income Compliance, Ethics, Human Resources, copyrights, and domain names. He also LGBTQ people from communities of color Government Relations and Risk Management manages the legal budget, the invoices, who are at risk of eviction or who have been functions. the outside counsels, and all enforcement denied housing because of discrimination. efforts around the world. On a daily basis, Eugene’s work focuses on clients in Mr. Cheng’s work has been recognized he counsels on IP matters and works gentrifying neighborhoods of New York City in election to the Consumer Electronics collaboratively across multiple functions who are aging, transgender, or affected by Association’s Board of Industry Leaders, with counseling on IP matters, including Product HIV/AIDS. The impetus for his project arises an In-House Impact Award by The Recorder Development, Marketing, International Sales, from the tenet that for the most vulnerable (2015), by selection by the National Law and eCommerce. in the LGBTQ community, attaining housing Journal as one of America’s 50 Outstanding security is an important step toward ending General Counsel (2014) and one of 50 IP Prior to joining HICKIES, Charles completed the cycle of poverty and homelessness. In Pioneers and Trailblazers (2014). In addition, his fellowship at the Volunteer Lawyers for recent years, hyper- gentrification in New York Mr. Cheng was selected as a Top In-House the Arts, where he provided advice to low- City’s communities of color has jeopardized Counsel by the Daily Journal (2013), was income artists and non-profits on intellectual fair access to affordable housing, thereby awarded the Vanguard Award from the State property matters. The New York State Bar displacing the most vulnerable in low-income Bar of California’s IP Section (2013), and was Association’s IP Law Section selected Charles communities of color. Eugene was raised in chosen as a NAPABA Best Lawyer Under 40 as the recipient of the 2013 Miriam Maccoby New York City and graduated from the City (2009). In 2011, Mr. Cheng received the NYU- Netter Fellowship. In addition, he also clerked University of New York School of Law in Polytechnic Innovation Award. at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, 2013. Prior to joining the LGBTQ Law Project, D.C. and served as a law clerk to the late Eugene worked at the New York City Anti- Mr. Cheng has also held leadership positions Hon. Albert Sheppard Jr. in the Philadelphia Violence Project and interned at the Gay or served on the Boards of professional, Commerce Court. Men’s Health Crisis. community and affinity organizations like the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Charles received his Bachelor’s from the Southern California, Asian American Legal University of British Columbia and his J.D. Foundation, the Organization of Chinese and LL.M in Intellectual Property Law from the Americans (SF Chapter), the Harvard Club of University of New Hampshire School of Law San Francisco and the Lowell High School (also known as Franklin Pierce Law Center). Alumni Association. He is a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Chapman University School of Law’s Business Emphasis Program.

Cheng received a BS in History and Science, magna cum laude, from Harvard and a JD from UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. 30 Biographies

THEODORE CHENG JAMES P. CHOU MELISSA CHUA

Theodore Cheng is a Partner at Fox Horan & James P. Chou is a partner in the Moritt Hock Melissa Lim Chua is a Supervising Attorney Camerini LLP where he practices in general & Hamroff LLP’s Litigation Practice Group, in the Immigrant Protection Unit of the New commercial litigation, counseling, and resident in the Manhattan office. York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). She alternative dispute resolution. He is also an represents clients and mentors pro bono arbitrator and mediator with the American Mr. Chou focuses his practice on complex attorneys in immigration cases, focusing Arbitration Association and Resolute Systems, commercial litigation for hedge funds, private on defense from removal, asylum, and as well as on the neutral rosters of various equity funds, major financial institutions and status for survivors of violence. Melissa federal and state courts. As a neutral, Mr. multinational corporations. graduated magna cum laude from the Cheng has conducted over 250 arbitrations, Georgetown University Law Center, where mediations, settlement discussions, and He regularly advises and represents leading she also received a certificate in refugee and inquests. He received a 2013 AAA A. Leon investment fund clients and their portfolio humanitarian aid law. Prior to joining NYLAG, Higginbotham, Jr. Fellowship and is a member companies in managing and assessing their Melissa was a litigation associate with Paul, of the AAA’s Board of Directors. Mr. Cheng is litigation risks with regard to their investments Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison LLP. also a member of the New York International and related transactions, as well as She is the recipient of the Equal Justice Arbitration Center. In 2007, he was named proceedings, including trials, before various Foundation Fellowship and National Asian one of NAPABA’s Best Lawyers Under 40, and courts and tribunals. Pacific American Bar Association Foundation he is the current APALA-NJ President. He is Scholarship and currently sits on Judge also a past AABANY Recording Secretary and In addition to commercial litigation work, Mr. Robert A. Katzmann’s New York Immigrant Director, past co-chair of both its Litigation Chou served as pro bono counsel for the Representation Study Group, which works to and Judiciary Committees, and the current New York County Democratic Committee expand quality representation for immigrants chair of the Litigation Committee’s ADR in Lopez Torres v. New York State Board of in deportation proceedings. Subcommittee. Mr. Cheng received his A.B. Elections, a First Amendment associational cum laude in Chemistry and Physics from rights case involving the constitutionality of Harvard University and his J.D. from New New York’s convention system for nominating York University School of Law. Before joining judicial candidates for the state’s Supreme the firm, he was a senior litigator at several Court, which was profiled in the New York prominent national law firms. He was also Law Journal as one of the “Top Ten Cases of a marketing consultant in the brokerage 2014.” In connection with the case, he tried operations of MetLife Insurance Company a multi-day evidentiary hearing before the and served as a federal law clerk at both United States District Court for the Eastern the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Cheng is a District of New York and was integrally member of several professional associations, involved in appeals to the 2nd Circuit and for which he serves on various litigation, the United States Supreme Court, which intellectual property, and ADR sections and rendered a unanimous decision upholding the committees. He is licensed to practice in both convention system in January 2008. New York and New Jersey. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Chou practiced in the New York office of a major international firm. 31 Biographies

JANE CHUANG STEVE CHUNG ANNA R. MERCADO CLARK

Jane Chuang advises on trademark, Steve Chung is a Senior Vice President Anna R. Mercado Clark of Phillips Lytle LLP copyright and internet law issues, as well in NBCUniversal’s Newsgroup where he focuses her practice in the areas of business as on commercial real estate and business serves as the lead content lawyer for the and commercial litigation including banking/ transactions, for start-ups and other Owned Stations Division, NBC Sports, NBC lender liability litigation, and contract and businesses, particularly in the creative Entertainment and the TODAY Show. He business disputes. As a former Assistant industries. She was a founding partner of Yim provides counsel to and collaborates with District Attorney, she also handles white collar & Chuang LLP, and was formerly associated senior management on all matters relating criminal matters and investigations. Ms. Clark with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. to content. He has also served as the lead is an associate liaison of the firm’s Diversity Ms. Chuang served as law clerk to the Hon. lawyer for the syndicated television division, Committee. Anne E. Thompson in the District of New which currently includes programming like the Jersey (2005-2006). She received her B.A., Meredith Viera Show, the Maury Povich Show, cum laude, from Columbia University (2001), the Steve Wilkos Show and the Jerry Springer and J.D., cum laude, from Fordham University Show. Steve also serves on NBCUniversal’s School of Law (2005), where she served diversity council and is co-chair of the outside as an Editor of the Fordham Law Review. counsel committee devoted to the company’s Ms. Chuang is admitted to practice in New retention of diverse attorneys and minority/ York, New Jersey, the Southern, Eastern women owned law firms. and Western Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey. She is a member Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Steve was of the Asian American Bar Association of a litigator at Davis Wright Tremaine and New York (Treasurer, 2013-2015; Recording Debevoise and Plimpton. His practice focused Secretary, 2012-2013; co-chair of the on representing media clients, including Intellectual Property Committee, 2010-2013, Viacom, Rolling Stone, Simon & Schuster 2015-present). She is a member of the among many others. Steve also served as a Copyright Society (NY Planning Committee federal law clerk in the Northern District of member, 2015-2016), Association of the Bar California for Judge William Schwarzer. He is of the City of New York (Litigation Committee, a graduate of Harvard Law School. 2010-2011), the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the New York State Bar Prior to attending law school, Steve was a Association. consultant at ZS Associates. At ZS, Steve managed large project teams, which included graduates from the top 5 MBA programs in the country, and directly provided strategic advice to senior executives at the leading pharmaceutical companies, like Pfizer and Eli Lily. Steve was also instrumental in working with W.W. Grainger to completely transform their sales strategy, using an innovative algorithm applied towards millions of records of historical sales data. 32 Biographies

RICHARD J. CORBI

Richard J. Corbi serves as the term law clerk to Hon. Alan S. Trust, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the EDNY, and previously clerked for Hon. Louis Scarcella. Prior to his clerkships, he was counsel and associate in Lowenstein Sandler LLP’s Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization & Creditors’ Rights Department and Specialty Finance Department’s Private Equity Group in New York. He focuses his practice on all aspects of corporate restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings in both the U.S. and in cross-border insolvencies, representing debtors, lenders, creditors’ committees, plan sponsors, private- equity funds and other creditors in chapter 11 bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings. PAULA T. EDGAR MICHAEL FINN Previously, he was a bankruptcy associate at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York. Mr. Corbi has represented the chapter 11 debtors in Paula T. Edgar Esq. is Principal of PGE, LLC - Mr. Finn is Senior Vice President & General Philadelphia Newspapers, Gas City Ltd., G.I. a boutique coaching, speaking and consulting Counsel as well as Corporate Secretary of Joe’s Corp. and TLC Vision; the debtor-in- firm. The firm provides innovative and Axalta Coating Systems. Axalta is the world possession financiers in Loehmann’s and PTL strategic solutions on career management, leader in automotive and industrial coatings, Holdings LLC; the stalking-horse bidder in executive/leadership development, with its 12,000+ employees serving more than Metaldyne Corp.; Ares Management as rights organizational diversity efforts, intercultural 120,000 customers in 130 countries. Mr. Finn offering backstopper in Lyondell Chemical, competence initiatives, networking and social joined the company in April 2013, following Major League Baseball in the Los Angeles media strategy. its purchase by The Carlyle Group earlier that Dodgers Chapter 11 Case, the largest pension year. Axalta had its IPO in November 2014 fund and largest creditor in the Philadelphia Her professional experiences include and now trades as AXTA on the NYSE. Orchestra Association chapter 11 case and serving as the inaugural Chief Diversity various defendants in the Madoff bankruptcy Officer at New York Law School, the From 2009 - 2013, Mr. Finn was Vice case; and unsecured creditors’ committees Associate Director of Career Services and President and General Counsel of General in Interstate Bakeries Corp (“Hostess Part I”). member of the Diversity Council at Seton Dynamics’ Advanced Information Systems He is a contributing author to the ABI Journal Hall University School of Law, and as the subsidiary. Before that, he was Vice President, and a frequent speaker and a member of the Executive Director of Practicing Attorneys for General Counsel and Director of Ethics and NYCBA, Federal Bar Council and Federal Bar Law Students Program, Inc. (PALS), a non- Export Compliance at General Dynamics Association. Mr. Corbi received his B.A. from profit organization dedicated to increasing United Kingdom. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Ithaca College, J.D. from Hofstra University diversity in the legal profession and providing Finn served as Senior Counsel for General and his LL.M. from St. John’s University. mentoring, academic support, and networking Dynamics Corporation. Between 1999 and opportunities to law students and junior 2002 he was General Counsel and Vice attorneys of color. Paula practiced in the Law President, Sideware Inc. and Associate Enforcement Division of the New York City General Counsel and Senior Director of Commission on Human Rights. Business Affairs, Teligent Inc. Prior to those roles, Mr. Finn worked in several positions For more than a decade, Paula has most notably including as an Associate at demonstrated leadership in the areas of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher and as an Attorney at diversity and inclusion. Currently active with the Office of the General Counsel at the FCC. a number of organizations and social justice Mr. Finn clerked for Judge Frank M. Johnson, initiatives, she serves as the President-Elect Jr. on the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, the Circuit from 1993-94 and the year before that immediate past Chair of the New York City he was law clerk to Chief Bankruptcy Judge Bar Association’s Diversity Pipeline Initiatives Conrad B. Duberstein (EDNY). Mr. Finn earned Committee and as a 2015 Council of Urban a B.S. in Finance cum laude from Indiana Professionals (CUP) Fellow. University and obtained his J.D. cum laude from New York University’s School of Law. 33 Biographies

JOE GIM HAYLEY GORENBERG RIO GUERRERO

Joe Gim, presently the Chief of the Crime Hayley Gorenberg is the Deputy Legal Attorney Guerrero is renowned for 15 years Strategies Unit for the Richmond County Director of Lambda Legal, the oldest of successfully representing companies, District Attorney’s Office (Staten Island), and largest national legal organization organizations and individuals with has been a prosecutor since graduating committed to achieving full recognition of complicated U.S. visa, work permit and green Fordham Law School in 2003. His focus the rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, card matters. In particular, he is respected for now is on using information collection and transgender people and people affected by achieving creative solutions for profoundly dissemination to address crime reduction and HIV. Gorenberg’s work spans the range of complex immigration cases. overall case enhancement. One aspect of his Lambda Legal’s mission. She testified to case enhancement duties includes training the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Mr. Guerrero is an active member of the junior Assistant District Attorneys in trial Policing regarding the impact of the criminal American Immigration Lawyers Association techniques and criminal law to prepare them justice system on LGBT people and people (AILA), where he is one of eight members for felony trial exposure. He has extensive trial living with HIV. She has worked on successful appointed to serve on the National Committee experience in a wide range of crimes and has litigation to defend state laws barring licensed on Health Care Professionals. He founded tackled cases involving Outlaw Motorcycle therapists from attempting to change the and currently Co-Chairs the Asian American Gangs, pitbull mauling homicides, Organized sexual orientation or gender identity of young Bar Association of New York (AABANY) Crime related homicides, and gang related people. She was lead counsel in Lambda Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, shootings, among others. Legal’s case winning marriage equality and he is a member of the Corporate for New Jersey and has litigated marriage Immigration Committee and the U.S. protections for LGBT people in Puerto Department of Labor Committee for the AILA- Rico. Early in her career at Lambda Legal, New York Chapter. she brought the high-impact legal action against Cirque du Soleil that yielded the A distinguished Edward V. Sparer Fellow of largest award ever for an HIV-discrimination Brooklyn Law School, Attorney Guerrero also complaint settled with the United States Equal holds one baccalaureate degree in Economics Employment Opportunity Commission. and a second in International Studies as a Dean’s Scholar of The American University of Gorenberg advocates, writes and speaks Washington D.C. Since 2007, he has taught widely on cutting-edge issues, including as an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law the rights of young people in schools and at the City University of New York – School the need to dismantle the school-to-prison of Professional Studies. A sought-after pipeline, the rights of transgender people, speaker in his field, he frequently lectures at hate crime laws, relationship rights for same- continuing legal education seminars and other sex couples, workplace fairness and HIV- pro bono events. related issues. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, wire services such as the Associated Press, Salon.com and the Huffington Post. She has appeared as a commentator and featured guest on Talk of the Nation, On Point, The Takeaway, MSNBC and Fox News. 34 Biographies

SAHANG-HEE HAHN SAIRA HAIDER DENNIS HOPKINS

Sahang-Hee Hahn is an Assistant Vice Saira Haider, an Associate of Axinn, Veltrop Dennis Hopkins is a partner in Perkins President and Counsel at MassMutual & Harkrider LLP, practices in the areas of Coie’s Intellectual Property and Patent Financial Group. Ms. Hahn provides tax legal intellectual property litigation and counseling. Litigation practices. He focuses his practice support to the Corporate Tax Department and Her litigation experience includes supporting on all aspects of intellectual property law, the Law Department, focusing on state and the defense of allegations of Hatch-Waxman with an emphasis on patent, copyright local tax planning, controversy, and policy- Paragraph IV patent infringement, trade and trade secret litigation. Dennis has related matters. Ms. Hahn is the Co-Founder secrets theft, non-infringement of consumer significant experience in all phases of IP and current Co-Chair of AABANY’s Tax product patents, antitrust violations based on litigation, including mediations, trials and Committee. patents, unfair and deceptive trade practices, appeals. In addition, his practice includes and opposing temporary restraining order counseling clients on issues relating to request. Saira’s IP counseling experience litigation strategies and intellectual property includes freedom to operate analyses of management. He is also experienced in transdermal pharmaceutical products, all aspects of brand and domain name monoclonal antibody treatments and protection. His IP experience also includes reconstructive biomaterials. drafting and negotiating agreements and licenses, preparing written opinions of counsel, and providing general IP counseling SUSAN HALATYN to clients, including counseling on patent, copyright, trade secret, brand management Susan Halatyn is a Senior Counsel in the and other trademark matters. Special Federal Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department. In that capacity, she practices exclusively in federal court. In her career, she has handled and supervised well over 2,000 cases of alleged police misconduct and employment discrimination. She has tried and supervised the trials of approximately 40 federal cases. Ms. Halatyn has been a frequent CLE panelist on federal practice and substantive law, and she has been a faculty member and judge for numerous NITA trial advocacy courses. Additionally, for the last nine years, Ms. Halatyn also has been an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School where she runs a clinic through which the interns work at the Law Department handling a small caseload in federal court. Prior to her employment at the Law Department, Ms. Halatyn was an Associate at Debevoise & Plimpton. 35 Biographies

KATHERINE HWANG JEFF IKEJIRI DIVYA JAYACHANDRAN

Katherine J. Hwang joined the New York State Jeff joined RGP in 2012, and provides client Divya Jayachandran is counsel at Attorney General’s Office as an Assistant service to a wide variety of clients across NBCUniversal. Her primary role involves Attorney General in the Real Estate Finance multiple industries and multiple service lines. managing all legal aspects of interactive Bureau in 2012. She regulates the real estate Prior to joining RGP, Jeff was an associate marketing and advertising campaigns and securities industry through the review of real at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he promotions for NBCU’s entertainment, estate securities offerings for compliance with managed state and federal lawsuits for sports, and news networks, digital properties, New York State securities laws and regulations, Fortune 100 companies in commercial and and stations. She is closely involved in the negotiating and entering into assurances of labor and employment disputes. Previously, development and administration of NBCU’s discontinuances, conducting investigations he was an associate at Sedgwick LLP where mobile applications, play-along games, on fraudulent actions, and drafting public he represented Fortune 50 companies in voting elements, and calls to action involving memoranda and guidance documents. Her commercial and products liability actions. Jeff user-generated content and social media successes include a felony criminal convictions received his BBA from The College of William platforms. In addition, she supports the and $4.8M judgment against notorious Queens and Mary, and his JD from Southwestern Law digital and production teams for The Voice, developers (People of the State of New York School. America’s Got Talent, and other interactive v. Thomas Huang, et al.), and the permanent shows, and handles various trademark and injunction against Queens developers (People Jeff is a mentor for the Tiger Woods copyright matters. v. Metroplex on the Atlantic, et al.). Foundation, works with Kidsave (a non-profit that focuses on finding homes for teenage Prior to her position at NBCU, Divya advised Prior to the Attorney General’s Office, she orphans), and was formerly on the Board of a range of clients as an intellectual property served as a Law Clerk to Judge Sheila A. Governors for the Japanese American Bar associate in the New York office of Kilpatrick Venable and worked in private practice at Association. He recently relocated to New Townsend & Stockton, where she focused the law firm of Santamarina and Associates. York from RGP’s Los Angeles office. her legal practice on counseling related She also served as a consultant to the Open to advertising, marketing, trademarks, Society Justice Initiative and as staff attorney copyrights, and social media. She has also to the Benjamin N. Cardozo Human Rights and worked in-house for several companies, Genocide Clinic. including Louis Vuitton North America, Warner She was the Freedom of Expression Music Group, and Gen Art, an organization Subcommittee Chairperson of the African dedicated to promoting emerging talent in the Affairs Committee of the New York City Bar creative arts and entertainment. Association for three years. She is currently the Co-Chair of the New York County Lawyers’ Divya hails from Phoenix, Arizona. After Association Young Lawyers’ Section. She graduating from Cornell University with co-founded the Peer-to-Peer Resume Review honors, she headed to New York City to study Service of the New York County Lawyers’ law at Fordham University. Association to assist law students, law graduates, and attorneys in transition.

Katherine is a 2009 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and a 2004 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. 36 Biographies

CHRISTINE TOY JOHNSON BLOSSOM KAN JEFF J. KANG

Christine Toy Johnson is an award-winning Blossom Kan is an Assistant General Counsel Jeff J. Kang is an associate the Tax Group of actor, writer, director and advocate for at MetLife. She handles disputes relating to Seward & Kissel LLP in New York. inclusion. Performing highlights - Broadway: the sale of life insurance products, annuities The Music Man, Grease!, Chu Chem; Off and investments. Ms. Kan also handles Jeff represents shipping companies on various Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, Balancing FINRA, SEC and state regulatory matters, financial and business transactions, including Act, Pacific Overtures, Crane Story, and advises on compliance issues and risk their offerings of equity, debt and equity-linked Philip Goes Forth, NYSF, Falsettoland; management. She also works on MetLife’s debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, joint national tours: Cats, Flower Drum Song, public filings, litigation disclosures, audit ventures and internal restructurings. In this Bombay Dreams; nearly 100 film/television responses, and reserves. Prior to joining regard, Jeff regularly handles issues arising appearances including recurring as “Dr. Celia MetLife, Ms. Kan was counsel at the law firm under Section 883 of the Internal Revenue Lee” on Law and Order: SVU, Unbreakable of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Code, and rules governing passive foreign Kimmy Schmidt, The Americans, Smash, 30 investment companies and controlled foreign corporations. Rock, 666 Park Avenue, Ugly Betty, The Big Ms. Kan is a board member of Practicing C, Royal Pains, 2 years on One Life to Live. Attorneys for Law Students (PALS). She is Jeff also represents collateral managers, co-chair of the In-House Counsel Committee arrangers, trustees, and investors in connection Christine was the Executive Producer and of the Asian American Bar Association with structuring and offering of collateralized Co-Director with her husband, filmmaker of New York. She co-chairs NAPABA’s debt obligations, REMIC pass-through Bruce Johnson, of TRANSCENDING – THE Prospective Partners Program, as well as certificates, and other structured financial WAT MISAKA STORY, the award-winning MetLife’s Professional Associations Liaisons products. documentary feature film about Japanese Subcommittee. American basketball star Wat Misaka, the first In addition, Jeff represents investment funds, person of color to be drafted into what is now In 2013, Ms. Kan was named one of The New their managers and investors on tax-related the NBA by the 1947 New York Knicks. York Law Journal’s inaugural class of Rising aspects of structuring, formation, operation and Stars. Also in 2013, she was named one of investments in various types of funds, including An anthology of her written work was the MCCA’s Rising Stars. In 2012, she was hedge funds, private equity funds, funds of inducted into the Library of Congress Asian named one of NAPABA’s Best Lawyers Under funds and mutual funds. Pacific American Performing Arts Collection 40. in 2010. She is an alumna of the BMI Lehman Jeff also handles various State and Local tax Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop and Ms. Kan attended Yale University and matters concerning investment management founder of The Asian American Composers & received her J.D. from NYU Law School. She companies and high-net worth individuals, Lyricists Project. has co-authored two women’s fiction novels including those concerning New York State published by St. Martin’s Press, China Dolls corporate franchise and individual income Christine was honored by the JACL in 2010 and Young, Restless and Broke. taxes, New York City unincorporated business for “exemplary leadership and dedication”, taxes and New York State sales and use taxes. received the “Wai Look Award for Service in the Arts” from the Asian American Arts He received a J.D. from Northwestern Alliance in 2012, and the Rosetta LeNoire University School of Law and an LL.M. (in Award for “outstanding artistic contributions taxation) from New York University School to the universality of the human spirit in of Law. He holds a B.A. from University of American theatre” from Actors’ Equity California, Irvine. Association, in 2013. 37 Biographies

SUNG KWAN KANG AMANDA KRAMER PEGGY KUO

Sung Kwan Kang is a partner based in the Amanda Kramer has been an Assistant Peggy Kuo is Deputy Commissioner and New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & United States Attorney in the United States General Counsel of the New York City Office Hamilton LLP. Mr. Kang’s practice focuses on Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of of Administrative Trials and Hearings, the corporate and financial transactions, including New York since 2008, where she serves as largest municipal tribunal in the U.S. securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions the Office’s Human Trafficking Coordinator and acquisition finance, and he has extensive and prosecutes human traffickers and criminal Previously, Ms. Kuo was Chief Hearing Officer experience in cross-border transactions. organizations as a member of the Office’s at the New York Stock Exchange, where she Violent and Organized Crime Unit. She presided over hearings regarding violations Mr. Kang joined the firm in 1996 and became was recently promoted to Senior Litigation of federal securities laws and NYSE rules. a partner in 2003. He received a J.D. degree, Counsel. In addition to being the Office’s As Counsel at WilmerHale, she represented cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1993 Human Trafficking Coordinator, I am now also corporate, financial and not-for-profit clients and an undergraduate degree, summa cum the Project Safe Childhood Coordinator. in litigation and investigations. She also laude, from Yale University in 1990. served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Prior to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Kramer District of Columbia and as Acting Deputy Mr. Kang is recognized by Chambers Global practiced litigation at Patterson Belknap Chief of the Civil Rights Division Criminal and Chambers Asia as a leading corporate Webb & Tyler and Weil Gotshal. From 2004 Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, lawyer for South Korea. He is also recognized through 2005, Ms. Kramer served as a law conducting federal trials and grand jury for his work in IFLR 1000. clerk to the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, proceedings involving civil rights violations, Chief United States District Judge for the including policy brutality, hate crimes, and Mr. Kang is a member of the Bar of New York. Southern District of New York. She is a 2003 church arson. She clerked for Hon. Judith W. He is fluent in Korean. graduate of the Fordham University School Rogers, then Chief Judge of the DC Court of of Law, where she also serves as an Adjunct Appeals. Professor in Advanced Trial Advocacy. In 2014, Ms. Kramer was recognized as From 1998 to 2002, Ms. Kuo was a one of New York’s New Abolitionists by prosecutor with the United Nations Sanctuary for Families and the New York International Criminal Tribunal for the State Anti-Trafficking Coalition. In May 2015, former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where she Ms. Kramer was named Top Prosecutor investigated and prosecuted war crimes and by the organization Women in Federal crimes against humanity. Law Enforcement for her work on human trafficking. Ms. Kuo is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. She is Vice-Chair of the Board of Manhattan Legal Services and Co-Chair of the AABANY Judiciary Committee Pipeline Subcommittee. 38 Biographies

CHRISTOPHER M. KWOK HON. JOHN LANSDEN CLEMENT LEE

Christopher Kwok is the Supervisory The Honorable John S. Lansden received his Clement Lee, a staff attorney at Immigration Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) B.A. from Connecticut College in 1988 and Equality, directly represents both detained Coordinator for the Mediation Program at his J.D. from St. John’s University School of and non-detained LGBT asylum seekers in the US EEOC – New York District Office, with Law in 1991. Before becoming a judge, he immigration court. Immigration Equality’s offices in New York City, Newark, NJ, Boston, practiced primarily in the areas of real estate clients from Asia include asylum seekers from MA, and Buffalo, NY. He is also Co Chair of litigation, landlord-tenant law and loft law. the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, AABANY’s Labor & Employment Committee. Between 1995 and 2001, he served as the Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Owners’ Representative to the New York Bangladesh, and Kazakhstan, among others. Chris began his career as a volunteer City Loft Board. After being appointed to Clem also advocates with Immigration and Mediator with the Alternative Dispute the bench in 2003, he sat in Kings, Queens, Customs Enforcement for detention policy Resolution (ADR) Unit at the EEOC’s New Richmond, and New York counties in both reform for LGBT and HIV positive immigrants York District Office, where he also worked as trial and resolution parts. He was appointed on issues related to detainee housing, medical a Federal Investigator. Mr. Kwok coauthored Supervising Judge of the Housing Court for care, and sexual assault prevention. Based an essay in the January 2008 issue of the Queens County since December 2012. He out of Immigration Equality’s office in New Fordham Urban Law Journal: “Barriers is a Board Member of the Asian American York City, he also counsels LGBT immigrant to Participation: Challenges Faced by Judges Association of New York and a detainees throughout the country by phone Members of Underrepresented Racial and Member of the Alumni Board for St. John’s and visits detention centers throughout the Ethnic Groups in Entering, Remaining, and University School of Law. Judge Lansden country to monitor conditions in which LGBT Advancing in the ADR Field.” has participated in panels for the Association immigrants are detained. of the Bar of the City of New York, the Asian Mr. Kwok graduated from UCLA Law School, American Bar Association of New York, and where he served on the Asian American the Asian American Judges Association of Pacific Islander Law Journal, and from Cornell New York. He has lectured for the Judicial University, where he majored in Government Institute, the Jack Newton Lerner Lecture and minored in Asian American studies. He is Series, the Brooklyn Bar Association, and also a graduate of Stuyvesant High School. the Association of the Bar of City of New York. He is a frequent judge for the National Intercollegiate Mock Trial Tournament and the Legal Outreach Program. 39 Biographies

TOM LEPAK SANDRA LEUNG LISA LIM

Tom Lepak is a Senior Trial Attorney with Sandy Leung serves as legal advisor to the Lisa Lim, Partner at Akerman, focuses the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Board of Directors and company executives, her practice in real estate finance and Commission, where he enforces federal and is responsible for shaping the company’s development, economic development, civil-rights statutes through employment- legal strategy. Sandy is also responsible for and affordable housing. Lisa has extensive discrimination litigation. Mr. Lepak began his Environment, Health & Safety, Corporate transactional experience including the legal career as an Honors Trial Attorney in Security and Philanthropy. representation of borrowers, lenders, and the agency’s Los Angeles District Office. He government agencies in the structuring, transferred to the New York District Office in Sandy joined Bristol-Myers Squibb in 1992 as negotiation, and closing of complex 2012. Mr. Lepak serves on the EEOC Office a staff attorney in the litigation department. In transactions involving the acquisition and/or of General Counsel’s LGBT Workgroup, which 1996, she became assistant counsel and one disposition, construction, development, and/ provides advice and input to the EEOC’s year later, was named associate counsel. In or preservation of multifamily and mixed-use litigators on developing LGBT-related litigation 1999, Sandy was appointed to the position developments, condominiums, hotels, senior vehicles, and coordinates internal initiatives of counsel and corporate secretary. In 2006, housing, and public and charter schools. Her and policies, trains internal staff, and she was appointed acting general counsel concentration has been on deals that are conducts outreach with external stakeholders and in 2007, she was named general counsel. public-private collaborations with an emphasis regarding LGBT issues. He is a founding In 2014, Sandy was named executive vice on tax exempt bonds, affordable housing, and member and current Board Member of EEOC president. regulatory frameworks. Lisa has served as Pride, an internal employee group for LGBT lead counsel on a number of 80/20 projects and other prominent developments that have employees, friends, and allies. Mr. Lepak Prior to joining the company, Sandy was helped to revitalize and develop various parts is also a member of the New York City Bar a prosecutor in the Manhattan District of New York City. Lisa’s major transactions Association’s LGBT Rights Committee and Attorney’s Office. include Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, the the Employment Subcommittee. He attended Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy I in UCLA School of Law, where he was active in Sandy earned her law degree from Boston Harlem, and the New York Genome/University the Williams Institute and served as Editor- College of Law and her bachelor’s degree of Buffalo Genomics Center joint venture. in-Chief of the Dukeminier Awards Journal of from Tufts University. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law. Lisa has negotiated and closed deals involving the following agencies: Empire State Development, New York City Economic Development Corporation, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation, New York State Homes and Community Renewal, Housing Trust Fund Corporation, the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, New York State Housing Finance Agency, New York State Affordable Housing Corporation, New York City Housing Authority, New York City Housing Development Corporation, New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development, the School Construction Authority, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac. 40 Biographies

JAMES LIN MARGARET LING HON. DORIS LING-COHAN

Mr. Lin is a graduate of the University of Margaret Ling is Vice President and Senior Justice Doris Ling-Cohan has been a trailblazer: Pennsylvania and Hofstra University’s School Counsel at First Nationwide Title Agency, LLC. of Law. Since 1989 he has been an Assistant Margaret has been a real estate attorney since • In 2014, she became the first woman District Attorney at the New York County 1986. Her real estate experience includes of Asian descent to preside in a NYS District Attorney’s office and has prosecuted the following: Private Real Estate Practice, appellate court, having been appointed to homicides since 1999. During his career there Agency Underwriting Counsel at Stewart Title the Appellate Term, First Department. he has been a Criminal Court Supervisor Insurance Company and the Ticor-Fidelity Title • In an historic election in 1995, she became of first and second year prosecutors, was Group, Claims Counsel at First American Title the first public official of Asian descent to one of that office’s first Domestic Violence Insurance Companies, In-House Counsel at be elected from Manhattan’s Chinatown, when she was elected to the Civil Court. Coordinators, and was a member of that CHM Abstract LLC, Titleserv LLC, Intracoastal • In 2002, she became the first woman office’s Asian Gang Unit. In 2008 he helped Abstract LLC, the Couch Braunsdorf Insurance of Asian descent to be elected to the form AABANY’s Prosecutors’ Committee, Group, Summit Associates, the Great American Supreme Court in New York State. Co-Chaired it from 2009 to 2013, and has Title Agency, Inc., and Skyline Title-TRG of the Reology Group. • Justice Ling-Cohan was named one of the resumed Co-Chair duties this year. Mr. Lin nation’s Outstanding Women Lawyers by was elected to and served on AABANY’s She serves as Co-Chair of the Real Estate the National Law Journal. Board of Directors from 2011 until 2015. • Ten years before SCOTUS, in 2005, Justice Since March 2010 he has been a member of Committee and has served as a Director on AABANY’s board since 2009. Her other bar Ling-Cohan was the first trial judge in the New York State Advisory Committee on New York State and third trial judge in association memberships include the New Criminal Law and Procedure. The committee the country to decide in favor of Marriage York County Lawyers’ Association, where recommends legislative proposals concerning Equality in Hernandez v. Robles. she serves as Co-Chair of the Asia Practice criminal law and procedure to the Chief Committee, the National Asian Pacific Administrative Judge of New York State. In A former Legal Services lawyer and managing American Bar Association, the Asian Pacific his spare time Mr. Lin serves as an Assistant attorney, Assistant Attorney General and law American Lawyers’ Association of New Jersey, Scout Master for his son’s Boy Scout Troop. professor, Justice Ling-Cohan was born in and the New York State Bar Association. She Manhattan and raised in New York’s Chinatown is also an active member of the Asian Real and Brooklyn. She serves on the Franklin H. Estate Association of America, where she Williams Judicial Commission, the Chief Judge’s is an Advisory Director of the Board for the Advisory Board, and the NYC Bar’s Council on AREAA-New York East Chapter, the Chinese International Affairs, and is elected to the NYS American Real Estate Association, the New Bar Association’s House of Delegates. Justice York Chinese Bankers’ Association, and the Ling-Cohan is serving her fourth term as the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate President of the national organization of federal Professionals. and state judges of Asian descent, focusing on increasing the number of APA judges. She also Margaret received her Bachelor of Arts degree started a judicial mentoring program to assist in History, Cum Laude, from Barnard College those interested in pursuing a career in the and her Juris Doctor degree from New York judiciary for the Williams Commission. Justice Law School. Margaret is also involved with the Ling-Cohan helped found and was an officer Barnard Business Professionals’ Association, of the New York Asian Women’s Center and where she was formerly a Director of the Asian American Bar Association. She has had Board. She is a member of the Asian Alumnae hundreds of interns whom she mentors. Association of Columbia University. 41 Biographies

JESSICA LIOU STEVE MADRA

Jessica Liou is a senior associate in Weil Mr. Madra has 14 years of litigation Gotshal’s Business Finance & Restructuring experience in the State and Federal Courts Department. Ms. Liou represents and advises of New York. His practice involves all debtors, creditors, equity holders, investors, aspects of commercial litigation and has and other interested parties in all aspects grown to include transactional matters of distressed and insolvency situations. relating to international trade and finance. She has served as the lead associate or He has successfully drafted and argued integral member of multiple teams advising an appeal before the Appellate Division, debtors and creditors in various industries. Second Department. On behalf of the Ms. Liou’s recent debtor representations Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, include Endeavour International Corporation, Commercial Division, of the New York State Extended Stay Hotels, AES Eastern Energy, Bar Association, he co-authored a report on Nortek, Hawkeye Renewables, Steve & sealing business records which has been Barry’s, and Recycled Paper Greetings. unanimously adopted by the Executive Her recent creditor representations include Committee of the NYSBA. He has served on The Export-Import Bank of China as the the New York Supreme Court independent largest secured creditor in the Baha Mar Ltd. TRISTAN C. LOANZON judicial screening panel on behalf of an Asian insolvency proceedings and Harbinger Capital American advocacy organization. In addition Partners in the TerreStar Networks Inc. and Tristan is an experienced corporate trial to his practice, he has provided pro bono TerreStar Corporation chapter 11 cases. lawyer who has tried cases to verdict in state legal services to a number of organizations, and federal courts. Since 2005, he has served most notably, to several religious institutions, Ms. Liou is contributor to the Weil Bankruptcy as outside general counsel to three medium- an Indian American cultural organization Blog, has served on the Firm’s task force sized New York corporations, and addressed and provided assistance to advocacy focused on Dodd-Frank financial legislation, many corporate law issues for those organizations working in the aftermath of the and practices pro bono in the areas of corporations. Prior to founding his small firm, Oak Creek shootings. He also provides non family law and criminal appeals, where she Loanzon LLP, he worked at large law firms legal volunteer services to a New York based argued before the New York State Appellate in Washington, D.C. and New York, where charity that provides and delivers nutritious Division to uphold an order of protection he represented Fortune 100 corporations meals to individuals who are homebound due and was part of a team that successfully in corporate counseling and litigation. He to physical illness. overturned a death penalty conviction for a graduated from Northwestern University Law mentally impaired defendant after 19 years. School, where he served as Articles Editor of She has been recognized by Sanctuary for the Law Review. Families Center for Battered Women’s Legal Services as a recipient of its 2012 Pro Bono Achievement Award.

Ms. Liou earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School. She obtained her B.A. from New York University, where she graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the Albert Gallatin Scholarship and Founder’s Day Award. 42 Biographies

GLENN D. MAGPANTAY HON. KIYO A. MATSUMOTO JESSICA MELTON

Glenn D. Magpantay, Esq. is Executive Kiyo A. Matsumoto was appointed as a Jessica Melton graduated from St. John’s Director of the National Queer Asian Pacific United States District Judge for the Eastern School of Law in 2000 and has been working Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), a national District of New York in July 2008, after serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Queens federation of Asian American South Asian, as a United States Magistrate Judge for the County for 15 years. During her time in the Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Eastern District of New York since July 2004. District Attorney’s Office, she completed lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Following her graduation from Georgetown rotations through the Domestic Violence, (LGBT) organization. He has worked in the University Law Center, Judge Matsumoto Trials and Appeals bureaus. movement for LGBT rights and equality for was a litigation associate at MacDonald, over twenty-five years. Hoague and Bayless in Seattle, Washington. For the past eight years, she has worked Thereafter, she joined the U.S. Attorney’s in the Investigations Division, Special Prior to NQAPIA, Glenn had a long and Office for the Eastern District of New York as Proceedings Bureau where she is the distinguished career as a civil rights attorney an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where she served Supervisor of the office’s Human Trafficking as the Democracy Program Director at for over twenty years, as a Deputy Chief, First Unit where she prosecutes the cases in the Asian American Legal Defense and Deputy Chief and Chief of the Civil Division. Queens County involving the sex trafficking Education Fund (AALDEF), where he worked Judge Matsumoto was an adjunct professor and commercial sexual exploitation of women to protect and promote the voting rights and at Brooklyn Law School, where she taught and children. To date, she has obtained political participation of Asian Americans. legal research and writing, and at New York numerous convictions in total under the New He continues to inspire new legal minds and University School of Law, where she taught a York State Sex Trafficking Statute that was future advocates by teaching Race & the Law government civil litigation clinic and seminar. implemented in 2007. Most notably, she at Brooklyn Law School and Asian American She also has served as a trustee and vice obtained the first conviction for sex trafficking Civil Rights at Hunter College - City University chair of the board of the Federal Bar Council, in New York State in which the defendant was of New York. a member of the Judiciary Committee, sentenced to 25 years to life after a jury trial. the Federal Courts Committee and the Glenn is a former co-chair of the Gay Asian Nominating Committee of the Association In addition, Jessica aggressively investigates, & Pacific Islander Men of New York; he of the Bar of the City of New York, Vice prosecutes any and all related cases where organized the first ever LGBT testimony Chair of the Mayor’s Committee on City sex trafficking and underage prostitution may before The White House Initiative on Asian Marshals, a member of the Asian American be a motivation for the commission other Americans & Pacific Islander in 2000. He was Bar Association of New York and National crimes, including investigating, indicting and named as one of Instinct Magazine’s “25 Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and a bring to trial many cases charging Kidnaping, Leading Men of 2004,” in the magazine’s Nov. member of the American Inn of Court and the First Degree Assault, Criminal Possession 2004 power issue. In 1994, he spoke at the American Bar Association Standards Review of a Weapon, Criminal Contempt, Rape National March on Washington for Lesbian, Committee. and Robbery, where sex trafficking appears Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation. to be a motive for those crimes. Jessica was recipient of the New York City Bar Glenn attended the State University of New Association’s 2013 Thomas E. Dewey Award York (SUNY) at Stony Brook on Long Island, for her work in prosecuting Human Trafficking and as a beneficiary of affirmative action, crimes. graduated cum laude from the New England School of Law, in Boston. 43 Biographies

MATTHEW MICHAELS CONCEPCION MONTOYA ADAM MOORE

Matthew Michaels is a Corporate Counsel in Concepcion A. Montoya brings nearly 15 Adam Moore is national director of eeo MetLife’s Litigation Section. He supervises years of trial and litigation experience to her & diversity for SAG-AFTRA. Since joining MetLife’s intellectual property litigation and practice, specifically consumer defense and Screen Actors Guild in 2005 as Associate plays a lead role in MetLife’s nationwide employment law. Ms. Montoya has litigated National Director of Affirmative Action toxic tort docket. Matthew also dabbles in the federal courts of New York and New and Diversity, he has been responsible for as a plaintiff’s attorney and has brought Jersey in more than 40 class action lawsuits developing and implementing a national several claims arising from MetLife’s varied involving claims brought under various federal diversity plan of action to achieve accurate investment activities. Prior to joining MetLife and state consumer and employment laws. In representation of those groups historically in 2007, Matthew was an associate at addition, Ms. Montoya has worked extensively excluded from the entertainment and news Debevoise & Plimpton and Hogan & Hartson. in legal malpractice defense and general media. Such efforts include the creation of He is a graduate of Cornell Law School, commercial litigation. Ms. Montoya is widely educational programs, conferences, and where he was an editor of the Law Review. recognized for successful strategies that workshops; development of public relations Matthew’s first experience with patent law resolve litigation disputes involving consumer strategies; and the enforcement of diversity was with the influential Financial Services defense claims and employment law. Ms. initiatives as outlined in the Union’s collective Roundtable amicus group in the en banc Montoya’s clients have also benefitted bargaining agreements. In addition to Bilski argument. It seemed so easy... from her risk management programs and facilitation and moderation of dozens of panel counseling on all aspects of consumer discussions and guest lecturing at colleges defense and employment regulations. Ms. and high schools throughout the US, Adam Montoya joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP serves as liaison to the New York City Task in 2005 and was made Partner in 2010. Ms. Force on Diversity in Film, Television and Montoya is a member of Hinshaw’s Diversity Commercial Production and is proud to have Committee. served on President Obama’s Disability Policy Committee during the 2008 Presidential Election. Born in Ames, Iowa, and raised in California’s Bay Area, Adam has spent the past twelve years in New York and currently lives with his wife and son in the Lower Hudson Valley. 44 Biographies

copyrighted photographs of supermodel Bar Refaeli; advising an investment bank with respect to ongoing pharmaceutical litigation and advising a number of nutraceuticals and cosmetic companies on label claims.

Kevin graduated Cum Laude from George Washington University (J.D.), and Magna Cum Laude from Ursinus College, (B.A. Politics and English). His bar admissions include: the State of New York, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, Northern District of New York, US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit US Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, and the US Supreme Court.

DAVID MOU KEVIN F. MURPHY

David Mou is an Assistant Corporation Kevin Murphy manages the Asia and Counsel with the Labor and Employment pharmaceutical practice for New York-based Division at the New York City Law intellectual property boutique Garson Segal Department. He has tried three federal cases Steinmetz Fladgate LLP. He is a skilled trial in the Southern and Eastern District of New lawyer with over 20 years of experience York receiving favorable dispositions in each that includes litigating two dozen cases of them. David is a 2013 graduate of Fordham to successful verdicts. Kevin’s expertise University School of Law, where he was an includes copyright, trademark and patent active competitor in the Brendan Moore Trial litigation, including handling major cases Center Program. David was also a participant for generics giants like Actavis PLC, Lupin in the AABANY TAP program during law Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Par Pharmaceutical school and found it was a valuable experience Cos. Inc. that helped prepare him for litigating cases in his day to day practice. Previously, Kevin served as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, where he won 18 bench and jury conviction verdicts during a three-year span. He then worked on product liability litigation for Lowenstein Sandler LLP. In 2001, Kevin headed to Frommer Lawrence, making partner in 2004 after helping to win a $12 million trade secrets jury verdict for Japanese semiconductor firm Tokyo Electron Ltd. He spent much of the next decade focusing on patent litigation for generics makers. In addition to practicing law, Kevin is called upon yearly to address issues of jury trials and other American litigation before law firms and corporate panels in the United States as well as in China.

Kevin’s recent matters include: serving as lead counsel for a foreign patentee in a dispute over optical disk restoration equipment; successfully representing a biotech company as lead counsel in an inventorship dispute over anti-diabetic peptide analogs; representing a photographer in a dispute with over a dozen publishing houses concerning 45 Biographies

GIGIO NINAN ADAM NOVICK CLARA J. OHR

Gigio Ninan is the Managing Principal of Adam Novick is the Regional Director of Clara J. Ohr is the Legal Counsel and Shankar Ninan & Co. Before founding the Firm Business Development for Planet Data Compliance Officer for LUKOIL Pan Americas, he worked at two large multi-national firms. Solutions, a full service e-discovery company LLC (LPA), where she oversees all legal matters based out of Elmsford, NY. Mr. Novick has relating to the trading of crude oil and petroleum Mr. Ninan has defended shareholder disputes, been in his current role for 4 years and is products in the Americas and Caribbean for the contract battles, premises liability, and responsible for cultivating new and existing US-based subsidiary of LITASCO SA (Lukoil high exposure medical malpractice claims, client relationships throughout the country. International Trading and Supply Company). primarily on behalf of insurance company He has been servicing the legal community clients, large New York City private and public for the past 10 years and takes a consultative Prior to joining LPA, Clara was an Assistant General Counsel – Trading at Hess Corporation, hospitals, sports facilities, universities and approach to his clients e-discovery needs. where she supported the supply and trading of local municipalities both in New York and He is well-versed on a wide range of subjects energy commodities including related financial New Jersey. He also routinely handled special from forensic data collections to data matters. Clara has extensive experience in matters for New York City hospitals arising out processing, hosting and review. His expertise renewable and traditional energy project of New York’s Family Health Care Decisions with respect to emerging technologies and finance, emerging-market export and trade Act and mental hygiene law. his ability to communicate effectively with his finance, foreign restructurings, general clients have allowed him to work with some of corporate law, asset-backed securitizations, Mr. Ninan has been successful in a wide array the largest law firms in Manhattan and some and municipal finance. Prior to joining Hess of legal settings both in the public and private of the most well-recognized corporations Corporation, Clara served as Counsel at Axiom, sector, from a large national full service firm, in the country. Prior to joining Planet Data, an Associate in the Project Finance Group at to a medical malpractice defense boutique, Mr. Novick was an Electronic Discovery Chadbourne & Parke, Transactional Counsel at to a mid-size commercial and franchise law Consultant for IKON Legal Document the Export-Import Bank of the United States, practice, to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Services. and an Associate in the Finance Group of Kutak Antitrust Division. While completing his law Rock. degree, Mr. Ninan completed several coveted internships in the state and federal courts in Clara is the Immediate Past President of New York and New Jersey. AABANY. Clara has served as its President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Director, and Co- Mr. Ninan graduated Rutgers University Chair of the Corporate Counsel (now In-House School of Law where he served as an Counsel) Committee. Clara is a soprano in Associate Editor of the Nuremberg Project The Choral Society of Grace Church, a pianist, for the Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion. road cyclist, and an avid fan of Nebraska Cornhuskers football. Subsequently, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Stephen M. Holden. Clara received her J.D. from the University Mr. Ninan is a cum laude graduate of the of Minnesota Law School, which included an State University of New York at Binghamton. exchange program in comparative international He is admitted to practice in New York, New law at Uppsala University in Sweden. She Jersey, and the United States District Courts holds a Masters of Music in Piano Performance for the Southern District of New York and the from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins District of New Jersey. University, and a Bachelors of Arts in East Asian Studies from Harvard. 46 Biographies

VICTOR OLDS HELEN ONG ELIZABETH R. OUYANG

Victor Olds is a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Helen Ong is a Compliance and Privacy Elizabeth R. OuYang has been a civil rights Law School. Most recently he served as Executive who was formerly the Vice attorney for 29 years. Ms. OuYang teaches a Special Counsel, Deputy Commissioner for President, Chief Compliance and Privacy comparative constitutional course affecting Investigations, First Deputy Commissioner and Officer for Samsung Electronic America’s African, Latinos, and Asian Americans and Acting Commissioner of the New York City North America businesses. In this role, a post 9-11 immigration course at Columbia Department of Investigation. she was responsible for establishing the University and at New York University compliance and privacy program for over (NYU) where she has taught for 15 years. Mr. Olds’ prior positions include Senior 10 Samsung entities in diverse industries De jure school segregation and affirmative Counsel for Legal Services for New York City, including telecommunications, consumer action are one of the topics covered in her Managing Director & General Counsel for electronics, B2B, home appliances, digital constitutional course. From 2010-2014, Ms. Bedford-Stuyvesant Community Legal Services media, healthcare, logistics, R&D and the OuYang served as President of OCA-New Corporation, Vice President and Senior Attorney internet of things. York Chapter, a non-profit, volunteer civil with Morgan Stanley, Assistant Attorney General In-Charge of the New York State rights organization that promotes the political, Attorney General’s Harlem Regional Office, and Prior to joining Samsung, Helen was with economic, and social well-being of Asian litigation partner with Holland & Knight LLP in Pfizer Inc for 15 years and was a member Pacific Americans. Her cases and advocacy New York City where he handled federal grand of both its Legal Division and Compliance work have been widely reported in The New jury and internal corporate investigations, trials Division. During that time she has had York Times, Washington Post, broadcast and appeals of complex civil litigation, white numerous roles with increasing responsibility. media, and ethnic press. In 2000, President collar criminal defense matters and arbitrations. Her responsibilities included providing Clinton appointed Ms. OuYang to serve as legal and compliance support to all levels special assistant to the U.S. Commission on For twelve years, from 1988 through 2000, of colleagues in each of Pfizer’s diverse Civil Rights. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Mr. Olds served as an Assistant United States businesses: pharmaceuticals, consumer OuYang was a staff attorney at the Asian Attorney for the Southern District of New York in healthcare, animal health and infant nutrition. American Legal Defense and Education Fund both the Civil Division and the Criminal Division In her compliance role, she integrated Pfizer’s and the Disability Law Center in Boston, in, among other units, General Crimes, Public non-pharmaceutical global businesses into Massachusetts. Ms. OuYang received the Corruption and the Securities and Commodities Pfizer’s compliance program while ensuring 2014 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Award and Fraud Task Force. Thereafter, for two years he flexibility for unique industry practices and 2004 Outstanding Teaching Award from NYU. served as a member of the Southern District led the monitoring of our pharmaceutical In 2010, Mayor Bloomberg bestowed upon of New York’s federal Criminal Justice Act field force and other functions to identify Ms. OuYang the 2010 American Dreamer Panel. Mr. Olds was also a Special Master for and mitigate systemic noncompliance. In Award for Ambassadorship. Her publications the Appellate Division of the New York State her legal role, she not only provided general include “Can Military Courts Deliver Justice Supreme Court (First Department). corporate legal support on a variety of issues to a Subordinate Hazed by Superiors?”, including retail, distribution, supply, dispute Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Mr. Olds also serves on the Federal Bar Council (Second Circuit Courts Committee; Assistant resolution and advertising but also led M&A Asian American Policy Review and “Women Secretary of the Federal Bar Foundation; and and licensing transactions. She has managed with Disabilities in the Workforce,” Harvard the Federal Bar Council Quarterly), and was multiple teams within Pfizer. Women’s Law Journal. Ms. OuYang is a a member of the Litigation Committee and graduate of Northeastern University School the Judiciary Committee of the New York City Helen is currently the Chairwoman of the of Law. Bar. Mr. Olds is also a Harvard Law School Board of Trustees of the United Way of Wasserstein Public Interest Law Fellow. Northern New Jersey. 47 Biographies

JOONBEOM PAE SAPNA PALLA PARAG PAREKH

JoonBeom Pae is a special counsel in Jenner Sapna is a partner in the firm’s Intellectual Parag Parekh is an associate in Schwartz & Block’s Tax Practice. Mr. Pae’s practice Property Practice. Her practice focuses Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas’ real estate focuses on the tax aspects of a variety on an array of technologies, including department. Parag represents developers, of domestic and cross-border corporate pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, drug delivery purchasers, sellers and investors in a transactions, including fund formation, joint systems and medical devices, with an emphasis variety of commercial and residential real ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. on Hatch-Waxman patent infringement cases. estate transactions, including the sale, Pae has substantial experience with advising She has over 15 years of experience in patent financing, refinancing, acquisition and both sponsors and investors in connection litigation and experience in various jurisdictions leasing of commercial and residential with formation, structuring and operation of including the Federal Circuit and federal courts properties, and counsels clients on the in Delaware, District of New Jersey, Eastern various types of onshore and offshore funds, registration requirements of the New York District of Virginia, Eastern District of Texas, including buyout, infrastructure, real estate State Department of Law, including the Southern District of New York, Southern District and debt funds. Mr. Pae also previously preparation and submission of offering plans, of Florida, Northern District of California and the practiced as a certified public accountant District of Maryland. amendments and related regulatory filings. in South Korea at a leading international accounting firm. Sapna counsels a variety of US and international Parag is a graduate of Adelphi University clients regarding US intellectual property law (B.A., Psychology, 2006), Pace Law School by providing them with infringement, validity, (J.D. 2009) and Georgetown University Law enforceability and clearance opinions, and by Center (LL.M., Taxation, 2010) and was advising them in licensing and antitrust matters, admitted to the Bar in Connecticut in 2009 conducting intellectual property due diligence and New York in 2010. investigations in connection with acquisitions and licensing deals. Sapna also counsels clients about Indian patent law.

Sapna frequently writes and speaks on a range of topics including developments in pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical devices patent law, patent reform, biosimilars regulations and intellectual property law in Asia, and developments in e-discovery. Her programs have been presented by Practicing Law Institute and WestLegal Ed and she has been published and quoted in Leading publications, including Forbes, Pharmaceutical Patent Analyst and Bloomberg/BNA.

Sapna teaches as an adjunct professor at Pace University School of Law addressing antitrust and patent topics. She clerked for the Honorable Judge Robert J. Hurley of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 48 Biographies

RYAN PARK MARISSA PIESMAN TAHMINA CHOUDHURY RAJIB

Ryan Park is a litigation associate at Boies, Marissa Piesman joined the Real Estate Tahmina Rajib is Director at Park Avenue Schiller & Flexner LLP. Previously, Ryan was Finance Bureau of the New York State Securities, Guardian Life Insurance Company. a law clerk for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg Attorney General’s Office in 1981. Apart from She is the head of Customer Complaints, and David H. Souter (ret.) of the U.S. Supreme a three year stint as law clerk to Justice Elliott Regulatory Affairs and the Broker Dealer Court, Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of Wilk in New York County Supreme Court, Surveillance Unit. Previously, she was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second she has remained with the Bureau, serving Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for the four Circuit, and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. under six Attorneys General as an Assistant registered investment advisors of AIG Advisor District Court for the Southern District of New Attorney General, Bureau Chief and Special Group. Tahmina also held compliance roles York. He has also served as an Attorney- Counsel. and attorney position at MetLife Securities Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Ryan and AXA Advisors. graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Ms. Piesman graduated from Stony Brook Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief University and Northeastern University School Tahmina received her Bachelors from Hunter of the Harvard International Law Journal and of Law. Prior to joining the OAG, she was a College and a Masters from Columbia Political and Outreach Chair for the Asian staff attorney at Harlem Legal Services and University. She earned her JD from New York Pacific American Law Students Association. worked in the Torts Division of the New York Law School. He graduated with distinction from Amherst City Law Department. She is also the author College, where he was President of the of a six-book New York based mystery series student government for three years. After including plots such as “Who’s Killing the college, Ryan lived and worked in Gwangju, Non-Purchasing Tenants?” South Korea on a Fulbright Fellowship. 49 Biographies

HON. DELISSA RIDGWAY YASUHIRO SAITO HON. TOKO SERITA

Delissa A. Ridgway is a Judge on the U.S. For the last 20 years, Mr. Saito has guided Toko Serita is a Judge in New York City Court of International Trade, a national federal some of the world’s largest corporations Criminal Court, Queens County. She was court based in New York. Prior to her 1998 through their toughest problems. A partner appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to appointment to the Court, Judge Ridgway and practice-group leader at prominent the Criminal Court on October 20, 2005, and served in the Clinton Administration as Chair of Wall Street law firms prior to founding Saito is the first Japanese-American judge in New the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of Sorenson Lurie LLP, Mr. Saito serves regularly York State as well as the first Asian-American the U.S., adjudicating claims by U.S. nationals as lead counsel for major business institutions female appointed to the Criminal Court. against foreign sovereigns. Before that, she involved in complex commercial disputes and practiced international commercial arbitration major corporate scandals. Mr. Saito is a noted Judge Serita now presides over the Queens at Shaw Pittman in Washington, D.C. authority on cross-border litigation and cross- Prostitution Diversion Court, which is a court border white collar criminal investigation and specifically designed to provide alternatives Judge Ridgway is a former President of the regulatory enforcement matters. He lectures to incarceration for those arrested on Women’s Bar Association of D.C. (1992- frequently on these and other subjects, and prostitution charges and to identify and serve 93), chaired the Justice/Judiciary Task has acted as an expert witness before foreign victims of sex trafficking. Judge Serita also Force of the National Women’s Political tribunals. presides over the Queens Misdemeanor Caucus’s nationwide Coalition for Women’s Treatment Court and the Queens Mental Appointments (1992-94), chaired the D.C. Health Recovery Court. Bar’s landmark Summit on Women in the Profession, was a founding member of the D.C. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Conference on Opportunities for Minorities in Executive Assistant to the Administrative the Profession, and was elected President of Judge of the Supreme Court Queens County, the Charlotte E. Ray American Inn of Court, the Criminal and Civil Terms, first to the Hon. first Inn founded for the purpose of ensuring Steven W. Fisher, and then the Honorable professional development opportunities for Leslie G. Leach, from 2002 - 2005, having women lawyers of color. Judge Ridgway joined the court system in 1999. From 1989- more recently served for three years on the prestigious ABA Commission on Women, was 1999, Judge Serita worked as an appellate one of two founding Co-Chairs of the ABA attorney at the Legal Aid Society, Criminal Section of Litigation’s Initiative on Implicit Bias, Appeals Bureau, where she argued before the was a founding member of Direct Women (an New York State Appellate Division, First and initiative to increase the number of women Second Departments, the New York Court lawyers on corporate boards), and was elected of Appeals, and the Court of Appeals for the Chair of the National Conference of Federal Second Circuit. Trial Judges, representing the interests of federal trial judges nationwide. Judge Ridgway now serves on the Council of the ABA Section of International Law. Her many honors include recognition as Washington D.C.’s “Woman Lawyer of The Year” (2001), and recognition by the national Federal Bar Association as one of four “Prominent Women in International Law”. 50 Biographies

In addition, Amish’s practice includes advice on financial products tax, tax accounting and UMAR A. SHEIKH tax reporting matters; cross-border financing debt-equity issues; section 529 qualified Umar A. Sheikh is Of Counsel to the Firm of tuition plans; bankruptcy tax matters; and Mandelbaum Salsburg P.C. and represents numerous other business tax issues. clients in all matters related to commercial real estate, both transactional and litigation. Amish started his career as a senior tax His practice involves representing parties all accountant/CPA in a Big 6 accounting firm. over the country in all types of commercial He currently serves as the Chair of the Tax real estate transactions – representing buyers Section of the National Asian Pacific American and sellers of commercial and multifamily Bar Association. buildings, shopping centers and development projects, representing financial institutions and private equity lenders in financing transactions, and representing commercial landlords and tenants in the negotiation of commercial and retail leases. In addition, Umar has successfully litigated claims involving real estate and other property AMISH SHAH concerns in state and federal trial and appellate courts all over the country, including Amish Shah counsels and represents clients New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Alabama regarding domestic and international tax and South Carolina. He is a graduate of planning and tax controversy matters. Amish Brooklyn College, CUNY, B.A. (Chemistry also helps energy companies and their 1997), and Brooklyn Law School (J.D. 2000). institutional investors maximize credits and incentives in the tax planning of renewable energy projects. Additionally, Amish counsels U.S. and international clients on the planning and consequences of acquisitions, dispositions and other restructurings involving both domestic and foreign entities. KAREN SHEN In the tax controversy area, Amish represents clients under IRS examination in all phases Karen Shen is Corporate Counsel – Patents of the controversy process including at Pfizer Inc. Her practice includes client examination, appeals and litigation. He counseling, conducting freedom-to-operate works on pre-filing agreements, fast-track evaluations, and supporting patent due mediation and post-appeals mediation; diligence assessments for licensing and negotiates settlements with IRS Appeals acquisitions. Prior to joining Pfizer, Karen was offices throughout the country; and litigates an associate in the Life Sciences group at cases. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, primarily representing Tax Court. pharmaceutical companies in patent litigation. Karen received both her B.S. (Cellular and Amish also advises clients with respect to Molecular Biology and Political Science) and renewable and alternative energy investments J.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to and the availability of tax credits and other law school, Karen worked as a community incentives (including the alcohol fuels and health Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo. biodiesel credits, section 45 production tax credit, section 48 investment tax credit and ARRA section 1603 grant). Amish assists clients seeking IRS rulings on energy tax matters and handles renewable energy IRS controversy matters. 51

SUSAN L. SHIN CRAIG SILLIMAN JACLYN SITJAR

A Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, Susan L. Craig Silliman is executive vice president, Jaclyn (Jackie) Sitjar graduated from the Shin practices complex business litigation public policy and general counsel, responsible Saint Louis University School of Law in 2011 on behalf of public companies, financial for leading the company’s public policy, legal, with an Intellectual Property Concentration. institutions, and other corporate clients in regulatory, government affairs and security After gaining admission to the New York litigated disputes and class actions in federal groups. State Bar in January 2012, Jackie worked and state courts and arbitrations. at Practical Law at Thomson Reuters as Before assuming his current position in an Associate Editor for the Intellectual In the last three years, she has worked January 2015, Silliman was senior vice Property & Technology group and a Product on three trials in the Southern District of president for public policy and government Development Associate. She is currently a New York, the most recent resulting in a affairs, with responsibility for Verizon’s global Senior Practice Development Specialist for full defense jury verdict. She also defends public policy, federal and state legislative the Intellectual Property Litigation practice institutions and individual clients in affairs, federal regulatory affairs, strategic area in the New York office of Ropes & Gray government investigations and enforcement alliances, national security, privacy and LLP. Jackie has been an AABANY member proceedings conducted by various federal corporate citizenship. since 2011, helping start and lead the Young and state regulatory and consumer protection Lawyers Committee Run Club in 2012 and agencies. Ms. Shin has handled litigation Prior to that, Silliman served in a number of serving as the Student Outreach Committee and regulatory enforcement matters involving other senior management roles at Verizon. He Co-chair with Vicki Ger since 2014. In addition residential mortgage-backed securitizations was senior vice president and general counsel to recruiting and organizing volunteers mortgage loan servicing, derivatives, auction for Verizon’s wireline consumer, business for the 2014 and this year’s AABANY Fall rate securities, accounting, audits, books and and wholesale groups globally, and senior Conference, Jackie also moderated the Job records, compliance, disclosure, executive vice president and deputy general counsel, Skills Workshop at NYU School of Law in compensation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices with responsibility for antitrust, intellectual November 2014. Act, financial and other reporting. She has property, national security, privacy and also successfully defended clients against strategic product support. allegations of financial fraud, insider trading, inadequate internal controls and supervision, Prior to joining a Verizon predecessor market manipulation, improper sales and company in 1997, Silliman was an attorney trading practices, and breach of fiduciary in the international trade practice at Collier, duty. Ms. Shin has an active pro bono Shannon, Rill & Scott in Washington, practice representing New York City charter D.C. He has also taught international schools in bringing and challenging actions telecommunications regulation as an adjunct involving charter school co-locations. professor at the American University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Silliman earned Ms. Shin spent over four years at J.P. his law degree from the University of Virginia. Morgan as an Associate in the investment management business. She is a frequent CLE speaker on legal ethics and is the President- Elect of the Asian American Bar Association of New York. 52 Biographies

In the past year, Austin has received five prestigious recognitions:

• Top-3 Finalist for Outstanding In-House Counsel of the Year from the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) • Finalist for Best Small Legal Department of the Year from the ACC • Diverse Attorney of the Year from The Legal Intelligencer • Change Agent 2015 from the Council of Urban Professionals • Corporate Leadership Award from the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey

Prior to joining Heraeus, Austin practiced both litigation and corporate transactional law at top New York law firms. Austin received his RAVI SITWALA AUSTIN SO A.B. from Harvard and his J.D. from Penn Law. Ravi Sitwala is Senior Counsel at the Hearst Austin is Division/Deputy General Counsel, Corporation Office of General Counsel. Corporate Secretary and Board Member of Hearst Corporation is one of the nation’s Heraeus, a Fortune Global 500 multinational largest diversified media companies. Its major manufacturing conglomerate with $23 billion interests include ownership of 15 daily and in revenues and 15,000 employees working in more than 30 weekly newspapers, including 126 subsidiaries across 6 continents. the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, and Albany Times Union; nearly As General Counsel and Secretary of 300 magazines around the world, including Heraeus’s global medical devices division, Elle and Cosmopolitan; 31 television stations; Austin leads a team of six lawyers in the ownership in leading cable networks, US, Germany and China, and reports to business publishing, Internet businesses, the Division CEO in Switzerland and Global television production, newspaper features General Counsel in Germany. In addition, distribution and real estate. Ravi handles Austin serves on the Board of two medical litigation matters in all areas of media, First device companies within the Heraeus Group. Amendment, and intellectual-property law. He has litigated copyright, trademark, As Deputy General Counsel and Secretary and patent matters at Hearst, along with for the Americas, Austin helped build a new defamation, access, and commercial matters. US Legal Department from the ground up. He He also performs pre-publication and pre- currently supports 12 operating companies broadcast review and intellectual-property manufacturing diverse products, including counseling including advising on patent sensors, instruments, chemicals, industrial strategy and working with corporate counsel lamps, quartz glass, optical fiber and on due diligence in connection with potential photovoltaic paste. In this role, he reports acquisitions and investments. He also leads to President and General Counsel for the the technology committee for the Office of Americas and oversees litigation, commercial General Counsel. Ravi previously worked at transactions, employment matters, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, and government investigations and compliance for served as a law clerk for Judge Julio M. all US companies within the Heraeus Group. Fuentes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He attended Brown University, where he studied economics and computer science, and New York University School of Law. 53 Biographies

HUSEINA SULAIMANCEE LIANG-YING TAN REBECCA MIDORI ULICH

Huseina Sulaimanee is Counsel in the Legal Liang-Ying is an associate attorney at Herbert Rebecca Midori Ulich is an associate in Department of SAG-AFTRA. Her primary role Smith Freehills New York LLP specialising the State + Local Tax Group in Morrison as Counsel is enforcement of the union’s in international arbitration and public & Foerster’s New York office. Her practice various collective bargaining agreements, international law. Liang-Ying is dual qualified focuses on state and local tax controversies including negotiating settlements and to practice in New York and Singapore. at the audit, administrative, and judicial levels. handling arbitration grievances. Huseina Ms. Ulich’s practice encompasses matters provides advice and counsel on all matters Prior to joining the firm, Liang-Ying clerked for regarding sales and use tax, property tax, affecting the union and the membership, Vice-President Bernardo Sepúlveda-Amor and franchise and income tax, gross receipts tax, including labor, employment, intellectual Judges Abdul G. Koroma and Julia Sebutinde insurance tax, and telecommunications tax, property, and regulatory compliance. She also at the International Court of Justice and was among others. works extensively on policy and legislative an associate at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP. issues that affect SAG-AFTRA members, which includes preparing written and oral She previously clerked for the Chief Justice testimony and representing the union in and Judges of the Singapore Supreme Court, administrative hearings. and served concurrently as an Assistant Registrar of the High Court. Liang-Ying Prior to law school Huseina worked in the has appellate and commercial litigation Business Affairs Department of the William experience with a major law firm in Singapore. Morris Agency, where she gained experience She has also taught Constitutional and in contract negotiations, drafting and editing. Administrative Law as an adjunct tutor at the During law school, Huseina was selected National University of Singapore. to be part of the inaugural class of the Cardozo Indie Film Clinic, which represents Liang-Ying graduated with first-class honours independent directors in producing their films. from the National University of Singapore as the top student in the final year. She obtained Huseina is a graduate of New York University an LLM from Harvard Law School in 2011 and and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of was awarded the Laureate of the Academy Law, where she received a concentration prize of the Arbitration Academy in 2012. in Intellectual Property. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey. 54 Biographies

VINOO VARGHESE RODNEY VILLAZOR WILLIAM WANG

Vinoo Varghese in the past three years has Rodney Villazor’s practice focuses on white William Wang is an Assistant Attorney General been named a New York Metro Super Lawyer, collar defense, internal investigations, and in the Charities Bureau of the Office of the a New York Law Journal Rising Star, a Top complex civil litigation. He is a former federal New York State Attorney General. William 100 Trial Lawyer by The National Trial Lawyers prosecutor with significant investigative and trial works in the Enforcement Section, where he organization, and a NAPABA Best Under 40. experience. conducts investigations and civil litigation of fraud, misappropriation, and breaches of In 2006, after six years as a prosecutor, he Before joining DLA Piper, Rodney served as an fiduciary duty in charitable organizations. founded Varghese & Associates, P.C. The firm Assistant US Attorney for almost seven years. In 2005-2006, he clerked for Chief Judge represents individuals and companies in all As an AUSA for the District of New Jersey, Edward R. Korman in the United States he prosecuted a range of offenses, including criminal cases including white collar, state District Court for the Eastern District of New international narcotics, money laundering, felonies and misdemeanors, appeals, internal York. William is formerly associated with the structuring, aggravated identity theft, and corporate investigations, and asset-forfeiture. law firms of Lee Anav Chung White & Kim misbranding of pharmaceutical drugs. At the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District LLP, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP In May, in the Second Circuit, Varghese won of California, Rodney joined the Special and Bryan Cave LLP. At Patterson Belknap, a rarely granted retrial against the DOJ & IRS Prosecutions and National Security Unit where William represented large institutions in for a client convicted of criminal tax fraud. he led long-term complex investigations securities, antitrust and intellectual property Other recent white-collar representations have involving a number of international and national litigation. William obtained his J.D. from included Rengan Rajaratnam, hedge fund security matters. He also prosecuted federal Brooklyn Law School, magna cum laude, trader, and Dan Halloran, NYC Councilman. crimes involving wire and mail fraud, honest in 2003. At Brooklyn, he was an editor for services fraud, export control violations and the Brooklyn Journal of International Law In 2013, the National Association of Criminal public corruption and has tried to jury verdict and Vice President of the Moot Court Honor Defense Lawyers heralded Varghese as a numerous federal trials, including high-profile Society. In 2000, he obtained his B.A. from courageous attorney for his stalwart defense public corruption trials of several police officers. Binghamton University (SUNY) with honors. of clients, the federal and state constitutions, Rodney has been recognized for exceptional William is currently the President of the and the criminal defense bar at large. work by several federal law enforcement Asian American Bar Association of New York agencies, namely the Federal Bureau of (AABANY), the largest minority bar association Varghese graduated from Brooklyn Law Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, in the State of New York with over 1,100 School, New York University, and Chaminade the US Marshals Service, the Diplomatic active members. William has also served High School. He has taught for the NYC Security Service, the Drug Enforcement AABANY in several capacities including Law Department’s Trial Advocacy Program, Administration, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Vice President, Finance and Development, Cardozo Law School’s Intensive Trial Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He also Membership Secretary, Recording Secretary, received the Special Achievement Award from Advocacy Program, and Brooklyn Law’s and as co-chair of the Litigation Committee. the US Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Business Boot Camp. William is also actively involved in community Rodney spent approximately six years in private and volunteer activities. William is a former practice in New York prior to his government President of Project by Project (NY, 2009), service, where he focused on product liability a national non-profit organization. William litigation and other commercial litigation volunteers for Apex for Youth and the Dynasty matters. He also clerked for US District Judge Project, coaching basketball to elementary Jane Boyle for the Northern District of Texas and middle school at PS1 in the Lower East and US Magistrate Judge Charles B. Day for the Side/Chinatown. District of Maryland. 55 Biographies

ANNIE WANG ROSIE WANG TONG WANG

Annie is a staff attorney at the Asian American Rosie Wang is a legal fellow at Sanctuary for Ms. Wang practices in the areas of corporate Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), Families, a nonprofit that serves survivors of commercial, general IP and arbitration. She where she is responsible for managing and gender-based violence. Rosie’s work focuses works primarily with international, e-commerce coordinating its Deferred Action for Childhood on assisting East Asian sex trafficking victims and technology businesses as to their Arrivals (DACA) project and monitoring and apply for immigration relief, seek to bring their business matters in the United States, regularly analyzing developments on immigrants’ traffickers to justice, and rebuild their lives. cooperates with local counsel outside the rights issues. Before joining AALDEF, she Together with caseworkers at Sanctuary, United States, and frequently coordinates was the Robert L. Carter Fellow & Associate Rosie works to connects clients with therapy, proceedings in multiple jurisdictions. Counsel at The Opportunity Agenda, a New health care, job training, and housing. Rosie York City- based nonprofit, where she was is based out of the Queens Family Justice Ms. Wang is a listed neutral of several engaged in developing messaging guidance Center, where she collaborates with pro bono international arbitral tribunals including the for advocating for pro-immigration policy partners to offer immigration consultations American Arbitration Association International solutions and coordinating communications to foreign-born defendants from the Queens Center of Dispute Resolution (“AAA/ICDR”), strategy with immigrants’ rights and civil Human Trafficking Intervention Court. She Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, rights groups. For many years, Annie was a began volunteering at Sanctuary while in China International Economic and Trade partner within the immigration practice group law school in 2013. Rosie holds a J.D. from Commission (“CIETAC”), and Shenzhen Court of Wormser, Kiely, Galef & Jacobs LLP, where Columbia Law School and a B.A. in History of International Arbitration. She represents her work focused on business and family from the University of California, Berkeley. clients in commercial disputes before various arbitration tribunals, and has successfully immigration issues. She served as a trustee She is a first-generation immigrant. opposed confirmation of foreign arbitral of the American Immigration Council and awards in the United States under the New was a member of its Community Education York Convention. Her article “Interpreting the Center Committee. Annie is an active member New York Convention - a U.S. Perspective” of the immigration bar and co-chairs the was published and collected by AAA/ICDR advocacy and media committee of the and CIETAC in multiple instances. Ms. Wang American Immigration Lawyers Association’s presently serves on the Arbitration Committee (AILA) New York chapter. She served on the of the New York City Bar Association. She has Board of Governors of AILA and chaired the spoken on various legal education programs Immigration and Nationality Law Committee and professional events in the United States of the New York City Bar Association. Annie and in China, on topics such as international also co-chaired the New York Women’s Bar arbitration, doing Business in the U.S., and Association’s Immigration Law Committee. legal issues related to software.

Annie is a graduate of Columbia Law School. Ms. Wang joined Rosensteel Law in 2000. She also has an M.A. in Chinese Studies from Prior to coming to the United States, she was Yale University and a B.A. in Asian Studies an Assistant Professor at the University of from Northwestern University. She speaks International Business and Economy (Beijing, Mandarin. China) as well as a practicing attorney in China. Ms. Wang is a graduate of Northwestern University Law School (Class 1998) and Beijing University Law School (Class 1990 and 1993). 56 Biographies

MICHAEL C. WU TSUI YEE SAMUEL YEE

Michael C. Wu is senior vice president, Tsui Yee has been practicing immigration Sam has been a lawyer in government or general counsel and secretary of Carter’s, law since 1999, handling a wide variety public service for almost his entire two- Inc., the largest branded marketer in the of immigration matters, including family- decade career. His experience includes United States of apparel for babies and young and employment-based applications for tenures at the Office of the State’s Attorney children. Mr. Wu is responsible for all legal permanent residence, non-immigrant work for Baltimore City, where he specialized in and government affairs, compliance, internal visas, defense in removal (deportation) homicide prosecutions, and at the Office audit, risk management and corporate social proceedings, naturalization applications, of the New York State Attorney General, responsibility. and applications for various waivers of where he investigated and prosecuted removability. Medicaid fraud. During his career, aside from Prior to joining Carter’s in 2014, Mr. Wu was handling complex investigations, Sam tried general counsel and corporate secretary of Ms. Yee is a Co-Chair of the Immigration approximately eighty jury trials to completion: Rosetta Stone Inc.. Having joined in 2006, he and Nationality Law Committee of the Asian over fifty as felonies as well over thirty first established Rosetta Stone’s anti-piracy and American Bar Association of New York and degree murders. Sam also has conducted anti-fraud enforcement program and oversaw Co-Chair of the Solo and Small Firm Practice dozens of grand jury presentations, motion the company’s successful initial public offering Committee of the New York County Lawyers hearings, or court trials. on the New York Stock Exchange in 2009 and Association. She is also a member of the the acquisitions of Lexia Learning, Livemocha, American Immigration Lawyers Association; Before his legal career, he graduated from Tell Me More and Vivity Labs in 2013. the Korean American Lawyers Association the law school at American University and of Greater New York; and the Asian Pacific the undergraduate business school at Before joining Rosetta Stone, Mr. Wu was vice American Law Association of New Jersey. NYU, where he majored in Economics and president and general counsel at Montreal- Accounting. After seeing his Accounting based Teleglobe International Holdings Ltd.. Ms. Yee graduated from the University of grades, Sam declined to take any CPA Mr. Wu led Teleglobe’s acquisition of voice over California at Los Angeles School of Law exam and instead chose to take several bar IP provider, ITXC Corp., the listing of Teleglobe in 1998 and received her Bachelor of Arts examinations, which, in his view, had to be on NASDAQ in 2004 and the sale of Teleglobe degree in Political Science from Tufts much, much easier. to the Tata Group in 2006. University in 1993. She is admitted to practice Mr. Wu is a member of the general counsel law in the State of New York; the Second forum of the National Retail Federation, Circuit Court of Appeals; and the U.S. District a member of the board of directors of Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts the Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar of New York. Association, a former member of the board of In 2012 Ms. Yee was the recipient of the Dena directors of the BSA|The Software Alliance, Coye Outstanding Woman Entrepreneurship and a former member of the board of directors Award from the National Minority Business of the Association of Corporate Counsel - Council, Inc. National Capital Region. Mr. Wu was named a Top General Counsel to Watch by NYSE’s Prior to forming Guerrero Yee LLP in 2010, Corporate Board Member magazine in 2013. Ms. Yee was a founding partner of the Mr. Wu holds a Juris Doctorate degree from immigration law firm of Yee & Durkin, LLP. A the University of Virginia School of Law and proud native New Yorker, Ms. Yee was born in a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science Manhattan and raised in Little Italy. from Emory University. 57 Biographies

JENNIFER BETIT YEN

Jennifer Betit Yen is an actor, writer and recovering attorney. A citizen of both the U.S. and Ireland, Jennifer attended Cornell University and Boston University School of Law, where she graduated with honors and ranked 7th in her class her final year. She credits any academic success to her ingestion of massive amounts of caffeine. While in college, Jennifer worked as a newscaster for WVBR-FM, as a dishwasher, as mailroom staff, and as an ice cream server. Following law school, Jennifer spent six years in business litigation and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time. She has performed for East West Players, Lodestone Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Source, at New York City’s Snapple Theatre, on the FX show, “Dirt,” in FOX’s “America’s Most Wanted,” as the host of the TV series “Film Lab Presents,” and voiced the “sporty, bouncy and outspoken” character of “Avery” on the series “The Beacon Street Girls.” Jennifer also wrote, starred in and produced the Accolade Award winning web series “La La Land.” She is currently in pre-production on a narrative film aimed at bringing light to the issue of elder abuse, particularly in Asian and Asian American communities, made possible through a generous grant from the Asian Women Giving Circle. Now based in New York, Jennifer continues her work as an actor, runs a company to help promote children’s literacy (MyJennyBook) and is the President of the Asian American Film Lab, a non-profit dedicated to the promotion and support of gender and ethnic diversity in film and television. Jennifer launched the Film Lab’s production arm, AAFL TV, in the summer of 2013, to promote bold, innovative and diverse American content. In her spare time, Jen boxes and bakes pies. 58

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