The New York City Bar Association honored Columbia Law School professor Jack Greenberg, seated, with an honorary membership Monday. Greenberg argued Brown v. Board of Education and succeeded Thurgood Marshall as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He also is a founding board member of Human Rights Watch.

Joining Greenberg, from left, are City Bar President Debra Raskin, a partner at Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard; former Columbia Law School professor Theodore Shaw, now director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law; Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein; and Appellate Division, First Department, Justice Rosalyn Richter, who chairs the City Bar’s honors committee.