AABANY Fall Conference 2015 Charting New Frontiers Asian American CLEARY GOTTLIEB September 19, 2015 Bar Association One Liberty Plaza of New York New York, NY 10006 We are proud to support and host the NEW YORK WASHINGTON 6th Annual PARIS BRUSSELS Fall Conference LONDON of the MOSCOW FRANKFURT Asian American COLOGNE Bar Association ROME MILAN of New York HONG KONG BEIJING BUENOS AIRES SÃO PAULO ABU DHABI SEOUL clearygottlieb.com PART PART PART 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, 9 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.