Appellate Defender Office To Hold Its 26th Annual "First Monday" Event
The event will be held on October 7, with CNN's Jeffrey Toobin as master of ceremonies.
September 06, 2019 at 03:40 PM
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On Oct. 7, the Office of the Appellate Defender will host its 26th annual "First Monday in October" fundraising gala and mock supreme court argument. Jeffrey Toobin, chief legal analyst for CNN and staff writer for The New Yorker, will serve as master of ceremonies.
Faith Gay of Selendy & Gay and Hon. John Gleeson of Debevoise & Plimpton will receive the Gould Award for outstanding legal advocacy. They will argue 'Altitude Express v. Zarda,' a case that asks whether Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Tony West, senior vice president and chief legal officer at Uber, will receive the Counsel for Justice Award for his exemplary commitment to justice throughout his life and work.
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson will receive the Gideon Award for its commitment to indigent appellate defense, and Fayola McIntosh, a former OAD client, will receive the Beacon of Hope Award.
The First Monday bench will be led by Tony West serving as chief justice. Serving as associate justices will be Anirudh Bansal (Cahill Gordon & Reindel); James Joseph Benjamin Jr. (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld); Carrie Cohen (Morrison & Foerster); Daniel Gitner (Lankler Siffert & Wohl); Katherine Goldstein (Milbank); Sharon Cohen Levin (Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr); Kelly Moore (Morgan Lewis & Bockius) and John Nathanson (Shearman & Sterling).
Proceeds from the event support programs such as the Client Services Program, which assists incarcerated clients, including helping them transition to life on the outside, and the Reinvestigation Project, which pioneered an early intervention model for investigating and litigating wrongful conviction cases.
The event will take place at New York University's Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South beginning with a 6 p.m. reception in the Rosenthal Pavilion. The argument and awards ceremony will follow at 7:30 in the Eisner & Lubin Auditorium.
For more information, contact Carolyn Norris at 212-402-4120 or [email protected].
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