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A View from the Chair - January 2012

The NYSBA Annual Meeting is just around the corner, January 23 – 28, 2012 at the Hilton New York, New York City.  This year’s NYSBA Meeting promises to be the best ever for the Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section. 

Our thanks go out to TICL Vice Chair Jean Gerbini and TICL Annual Meeting Co-Chairs Mirna Martinez and Richard Kokel for coordinating all that is required for a well run Annual Meeting.
  
TICL will hold its Joint Dinner with the Trial Lawyers Section Wednesday, January 25TH at Cipriani’s Wall Street.  On January 26TH the TICL Section and the Trial Lawyers Section will each present two panels for a combined 7 credit hours in Professional Practice.  You will find each panel interesting, informative and useful in your practice.  For Dinner tickets, register for the CLE and for further information, email Lori Nicoll at the NYSBA at Lnicoll@NYSBA.ORG

The first TICL Panel is our Keynote Panel, Strength by Association – Recruitment and Retention of the Diverse Associate and Partner.  That panel will be the third of TICL’s Strength by Association Series which is a continuing TICL conversation on diversity and mentoring that started at the TICL Summer Meeting in Bar Harbor, Maine, this past August. 

The Keynote Panel is chaired by TICL Executive Committee Members Mirna Martinez Santiago and Ken Krajewski. We will hear from prominent attorneys leading the way to strengthen our profession through the power of diversity; Mercedes Colwin, Managing Partner at Gordon Rees, and frequent commentator for Fox News; Miles Afsharnik, Legal Director at Wells Fargo Bank; Richard Lau, Managing Partner of Richard Lau Associates; along with TICL Executive Committee Members Paul Jones, Phillips Lytle LLP and Matthew “Jim” Kelly of Roemer Wallens Gold & Mineaux LLP.

The second TICL panel is our Blockbuster Panel, Exceeding Every Expectation – The Art of Persuasion – Communication with the Court, Jury and your Adversary.  That panel will be moderated by Robert Adams, NAM Mediator and former Sr. VP Risk Management for Tishman Construction.  The panel will feature some of the most effective communicators in litigation today; TICL Executive Committee Members Richard Dawson of Conway, Farrell, Curtin & Kelly, P.C. and Jeffery Block of Block O’Toole & Murphy; along with Chris McGrath of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and Evan Torgan of Torgan & Cooper.

The Trial Lawyers Section will present Hot Topics in Civil Litigation with a panel by Cathy Fleming of Hodgson Russ LLP, Rosevelie Marquez Morales of Harris Beach PLLC and Joshua Cohen of Garson DeCorato R. Cohen LLP.  The all day CLE will conclude with How to Win Your Client’s Case Including the Art of Successful Negotiation, by Eleni Coffinas of Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo P.C. and David Horowitz of Ressler & Ressler.

The Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section will honor the following members for their outstanding contributions to the TICL Section at the Dinner January 25TH at Cipriani Wall Street:

Doug Hayden,
John E. Leach Memorial Award

Mirna Santiago and Joanna Young,
Outstanding Committee Co-Chairs, TICL Diversity Committee

Sharon Stern Gerstman and Paul Jones,
Outstanding District Representatives, Eighth Judicial District

The TICL Diversity Team,
TICL Chair Outstanding Service Award

The TICL Diversity Team has worked tirelessly with outreach to law schools and diversity receptions throughout New York State.  The TICL Diversity Team planned and held the first ever TICL Open Executive Committee Meeting and Diversity Networking Reception this past November in Brooklyn. 

The TICL Section thanks team members Mirna Santiago, Joanna Young, JP Delaney, Rod Coyne, Lawton Squires, Hon. George Silver, Jean Gerbini and Carlos Calderón for their time and effort in exceeding every expectation of the NYSBA Section Diversity Challenge made to the NYSBA Practice Sections by NYSBA President Vincent Doyle. 

Not a member of the TICL Section?  Have you renewed your NYSBA membership?  Now’s the time to put a little TICL in your practice for 2012. 

Send me an email at tmaroney@maroneyoconnorllp.com or email Megan O’Toole, Manager Membership Services at motoole@nysba.org and we’ll get you signed up. 

Come lead with the NYSBA and TICL today.

Thomas J. Maroney, Chair
NYSBA Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section
MARONEY O’CONNOR LLP
11 Broadway, Suite 831
New York, NY   10004
212.509.2009 x.101
Fax: 212.504.2754
E-Mail: tmaroney@maroneyoconnorllp.com

Save the Date:
Montréal Meeting
August 16-19, 2012
Montréal Intercontinental Hotel

The Section’s annual summer meeting will be in exotic yet accessible Montreal, Quebec. 

• Join colleagues in the Bar and Bench for practical CLE and networking. 
• Engage in the colloquy on diversity in the legal profession.  
• Learn to navigate domestic and trans-border litigation.  
• Bring friends and family for a great vacation in a superb but reasonably-priced setting.
• Surround yourself with history, art, gourmet food and entertainment for all ages. 

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