NEITHER SEPARATE, NOR UNEQUAL:

The Role of Minority Bar Associations
In Achieving Justice in the Courts

When: Wednesday, June 21, 2006; (5:30 p.m. reception; 6 p.m. program)

Where: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44 th Street

When the National Bar Association was organized in 1925, the fewer than 1,000 lawyers of African descent licensed to practice law in the United States were barred from membership in the American Bar Association. With the impetus of the civil rights movement, there are now thousands of American lawyers of color, a significant number of whom have advanced to the pinnacles of the profession in major law firms, bar associations and on the judiciary. Today, what is the current role of minority bar associations in improving the treatment of lawyers, litigants, and court personnel of color in the New York state and federal courts?

The evening will include a showing of a documentary film about the career of Court of Appeals Judge George Bundy Smith, including his participation as a Freedom Rider to Jackson , Mississippi , in 1961.

Moderator

HON . GEORGE BUNDY SMITH, Senior Associate Judge, NYS Court of Appeals

Speakers

TAA GRAYS, Director, National Bar Association, Region 2

NADINE JOHNSON, President, Metropolitan Black Bar Association

LAI SUN YEE, President, Asian American Bar Association

JANET ALVAREZ, President, Puerto Rican Bar Association

NICOLE A. McGREGOR MUNDY, President, Association of Black Women Attorneys

PLACID AGUWA, President, Nigerian Lawyers Association

MOUSHUMI M. KHAN, President, Muslim Bar Association of New York

SANJANA CHOPRA, President, South Asian Bar Association

LINDA MARIA WAYNER, Deputy President , NY Region, Hispanic National Bar Association.

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.

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