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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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