New York City Bar Association Podcast

Thomas Slome, a Bankruptcy Partner at Cullen and Dykman and the Treasurer of the New York City Bar Association, is joined by moderator Camille Bent, a Bankruptcy and Restructuring Partner at BakerHostetler; Philip Anker, Co-Chair of the Bankruptcy and Financial Restructuring Practice Group at WilmerHale; and Jonathan Flaxer, a partner at Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell and Peskoe LLP. All are members...

A Pathway Out of Mass Incarceration and Toward a New Criminal Justice System: The City Bar Report by New York City Bar Association

City Bar Senior Policy Counsel Maria Cilenti, Director of Advocacy Elizabeth Kocienda, and Policy Counsel Mary Margulis-Ohnuma discuss how they work with the Association’s 150-plus committees to take and advocate positions on a wide range of local, national and international issues; how they’ve adapted their work during the pandemic; and some of the issues addressed in recent months. This podcast...

Michele Natal, Co-Chair of the City Bar’s Recruitment & Retention of Lawyers Committee and an attorney at Mayer Brown, speaks with Muhammad Faridi, her Committee Co-Chair and a Partner at Patterson Belknap, and James A. Lewis, V, Executive Director of the City Bar’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion, about how the Diversity Fellows program has helped them and others make their way in the legal pr...

John S. Pruitt, a member of the City Bar’s Insurance Law Committee and a Partner at Eversheds Sutherland, speaks with Susan K. Neely, President and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers, about what insurers are doing to offer life insurance and retirement security in traditionally underserved communities, and the challenges insurers and agents face in doing so.

Christina Lewicky, a member of the City Bar’s Litigation Committee, speaks with Robert Leinwand, Vice President and Chief Litigation Counsel at Nike, and Scott Wilson, a Partner at DLA Piper.

Clint Hannah and Stephanie Krasnov of the City Bar’s Entertainment Law Committee speak with Professor Deborah Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law and Amy Lehman of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Sherry Ramsey, a member of the City Bar’s Animal Law Committee, speaks with John Thompson, Vice President of the Small & Rural Law Enforcement Executives Association and former Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Sheriffs Association.

Hanson Horn and Gary Casimir of the Cook Group speak with Jordan Rutsky of Merson Law.

Richard Liskov of the City Bar’s Insurance Law Committee speaks with the Vice President of the APCIA (American Property Casualty Insurance Association).

The Professional Disciplinary Complaints about the Conduct of Rudolph Giuliani and How They Might Unfold Jennifer Rodgers, member of the City Bar’s Task Force on the Rule of Law, CNN legal analyst and adjunct law professor, speaks with Christine Chung, a trial and appellate attorney, former federal prosecutor and steering committee member of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, and Richard Maltz,...

Kara Swisher, a journalist and author writing about information technology, will discuss her observations regarding the internet, the digital revolution it created and the possible future it may bring. Topics will include: the influence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other platforms on our politics, especially on the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol; the effect of computer robotics on our...

Susan Witkin, of the New York City Bar Association's Animal Law Committee, speaks to Kevin Schneider and Elizabeth Stein of the Nonhuman Rights Project about their organization and the cases it is bringing on behalf of nonhuman animals, including Happy the Elephant.

Jennifer Paul Cohen, a member of the City Bar’s Bioethical Issues Committee, interviews Dr. James Colgrove, professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program at Columbia's School of General Studies, and Dr. Llew Keltner, Chief Executive Officer of EPISTAT, an international healthcare strategy company he...

Christopher Dor is a Research Compliance Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine where he investigates allegations of scientific/research misconduct, manages conflicts of interest and drafts policy. John Katt is Director of Technology, Development & Data at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Tanya Blocker is a Senior In-House Counsel at National Grid, where she specializes in labor and e...

Panelist: Charles Morgan https://www.mccarthy.ca/en/people/charles-morgan Resources Report: Technology Governance in a Time of Crisis https://www.itechlaw.org/technology-governance-time-crisis International Technology Law Association / iTechLaw https://www.itechlaw.org Segments: Overview of Canadian Experience with Contact Tracing 0:00:43 Overview of Canadian Privacy Concerns with Contact Tracing...

Panelists: Professor Joseph Ali - https://bioethics.jhu.edu/people/profile/joseph-ali/ Dr. Brian Hutler - https://bioethics.jhu.edu/people/profile/brian-hutler-jd/ Resources: Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/contact-tracing Report: Digital Contact Tracing for Pandemic Response: https://muse.jhu.edu/book/75831 or free on Kindle at https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Conta...

Danny Alicea, the incoming Chair of the City Bar’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, spoke with Trudy S. Rebert and Carlos Vargas about DACA – the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program – and the recent Supreme Court decision in Wolf v. Batalla Vidal that upheld a challenge to its termination. Ms. Rebert is an attorney with the National Immigration Law Center and a member of the W...

As a national conversation over police abuse of Black and Brown people has emerged, many lawmakers and others are unveiling police reform measures. Join us for a discussion of the various proposed pathways and approaches to police reform. Our esteemed panel tackles some of the principal tensions confronting our society today and address the challenges of advancing change in how policing and law en...

Dr. Kenneth Prager, Director of Clinical Ethics at Columbia University Medical Center, speaks with Alan Brudner, Chair of the Bioethical Issues Committee of the New York City Bar Association, about ethical issues in health care arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lindsay Kassof, in-house counsel for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation, and member of the City Bar's Health Law Committee, moderates a discussion with insurance industry legal experts, including several on the City Bar’s Insurance Law Committee. Opinions expressed are those of the speakers and not necessarily of the City Bar.

Gary Kalbaugh, Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s Futures & Derivatives Regulation Committee, speaks with Dr. Heath P. Tarbert, the Chairman and Chief Executive of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The Association presents its annual Thomas E. Dewey Medal, awarded to outstanding assistant district attorneys in each of the District Attorney's offices within New York City and the Office of Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York. This year’s medal winners are: Astrid Borgstedt, Bronx County Leonard Joblove, Kings County Christopher Conroy, New York County Robert J. Masters, Queen...

A panel discusses the legal issues associated with international public and private art exhibitions. The panel addresses art loan and exhibition agreements, commercial and government indemnity insurance, import, export, temporary admission and VAT considerations, and governing law and forum selection clauses. Moderator: Diana Wierbicki, Chair of the Art Law Committee Speakers: Rudy Capildeo, Charl...

The program examines legal and ethical issues surrounding prison based companion animal programs including dog training programs. Panelists discuss their own participation in such a program as well as the growth and scope of such programs more generally in the US. The panel explores benefits of such programs on the individual level as well as on the criminal justice system including implications f...