David Handschuh

May 30, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The NYSBA's Commercial & Federal Litigation Section conferred The Honorable George Bundy Smith Pioneer Award jointly to former Southern District U.S. Attorneys Joon Kim and Preet Bharara.

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May 29, 2019 | New York Law Journal

The Nassau Lawyers' Association of Long Island presented the William J. Gitelman Award to Nassau County Administrative Judge Norman St. George.

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May 24, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Keynote speaker Nicholas Haysom, Special Advisor on Sudan to the United Nations Secretary General and former chief legal and constitutional advisor in the office of South African President Nelson Mandela, received an honorary degree from New York Law School during its commencement ceremony.

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May 24, 2019 | New York Law Journal

More than 600 members of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association attended its 35th Anniversary Awards Gala on May 17th.

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May 22, 2019 | New York Law Journal

NYLAG held its annual gala at the Pierre Hotel on May 16, raising $1.35 million to support free civil legal services for low-income adults, children, and families across New York.

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May 21, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Judge Pamela Chen spoke at the Fordham Law School commencement ceremony Monday, beginning her remarks with an apology to the graduates: she wasn't going to pay their student loans like billionaire investor Robert Smith announced during commencement at Morehouse University in Atlanta.

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May 20, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a native of the Bronx, returned to her home borough to receive an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Manhattan College on Friday, May 17.

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May 20, 2019 | New York Law Journal

New York Solicitor General Barbara Underwood, Judge Esther Morgenstern of the Integrated Domestic Violence Problem Solving Court, Judge Alex Calabrese of the Red Hook Community Justice Center and Judge Robert Russell of the Buffalo Veterans Treatment Court were honored at the 2019 Gala Dinner of the Historical Society of the New York Courts.

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May 14, 2019 | New York Law Journal

Judge Pamela Chen was honored by the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association and the Asian American Judges Association of New York during an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration.

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May 10, 2019 | New York Law Journal

On May 7, Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit delivered this year's Leslie H. Arps Lecture titled “What's Wrong With Federal Sentencing?” at the New York City Bar Association.

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