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Bernice K. Leber
Immediate Past President

New York attorney Bernice K. Leber served as the New York State Bar Association’s 111th President from 2008-2009. A litigator and partner at Arent Fox LLP, Leber concentrates on the prosecution and defense of complex civil business disputes, with an emphasis on those involving securities, financial and intellectual property.

Leber received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College and earned her law degree from Columbia University School of Law.

As an active member of the New York State Bar Association, Leber chaired the House of Delegates, co-chaired the President's Committee on Access to Justice, and is a director of The New York Bar Foundation. She is a member and former chair of the Commercial & Federal Litigation Section and past chair of the section’s subcommittees on Discovery, Appellate Practice, and Federal Judiciary. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Intellectual Property Section. She chaired the Association’s Task Force on Lawyer Advertising, which played a lead role in the development of the new lawyer advertising regulations that recently took effect in New York State.

Leber serves on the NYSBA’s committees on Annual Award, Finance and Membership, and has served on the Special Committee on Association Governance, and co-chaired the Committee on Judicial Independence and the President’s Committee on Access to Justice.

In addition to her NYSBA activities, she serves on the Corporate Board Selection Committee of the Financial Women’s Association.

Leber is past member of the Courts of Superior Jurisdiction (1995-1998), Committee on Judicial Administration, and the Civil Courts Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is a former parliamentarian to the New York State Senate.