2025 Annual Gala Press Release

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2025 Annual Gala Press Release

Press Release
Written by: New York County Lawyers Association
Published On: Jan 28, 2025
Category: Press Release

 

54 General Counsel Join Honorary General Counsel Committee to Honor the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court on its 30th Anniversary at NYCLA’s March 4th Gala

New York, NY- January 28, 2025 – At its 2025 Annual Gala, the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA) will honor the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court on its 30th Anniversary.  The Gala will be held on Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. at The Pierre Hotel in Manhattan.  At the Gala, NYCLA will present its highest honor, the William Nelson Cromwell Award, to the Commercial Division Justices in New York State.

Fifty-four General Counsel of major corporations have agreed to serve as members of the Honorary General Counsel Committee in connection with this event.  Michael Fricklas, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary of Advance, is the Chair of the Honorary General Counsel Committee.  The other members, and their companies, are listed below:

 

GENERAL COUNSEL COMPANY

Eric Adler

Advance Local

Marc Alpert

Loews

Fabio Bertoni

The New Yorker

Sipi Bhandari

Paychex

Diane Brayton

New York Times

Eve Burton

Hearst

Ben Campbell

Deloitte

Whitney Chatterjee

Apollo Global Management

Brian Chevlin

Pernod Ricard

Adam Ciongoli

Fox Corporation

Marcy Cohen

ING Financial Holdings

Deneen Donnley

Con Edison

John Douglas

TIAA

Daniel Emerson

Take-Two Interactive Software

Jordan Fasbender

iHeartMedia

John Finley

Blackstone

Mark Fischer

PVH

David Flavell

Pepsico

Laura Franco

Madison Square Garden Entertainment

Jamie Gallagher

AMC Networks

Rose Marie Glazer

AIG

José Gonzalez

Equitable Holdings

Eric Grossman

Morgan Stanley

Kendall Handler

IAC

Kimberley Harris

NBCUniversal

Jamal Haughton

Charter Communications

Henry Hoberman

A+E Networks

Hope Jarkowski

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Robert Khuzami

Guggenheim Partners

Jason Klurfeld

Evercore

Seth Krauss

Endeavor

Douglas Lankler

Pfizer

Joseph LaRosa

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Ben Lee

Reddit

Sandra Leung

Bristol-Myers Squibb

Andrew Levine

SL Green

Lori Marino

ITT

Eileen McCarthy

JetBlue

Kevin McCarthy

Bank of New York Mellon

Brent McIntosh

Citigroup

Dennis McNamara

Oppenheimer Holdings

Christopher Meade

BlackRock

Michael Mellis

New York Yankees

Hazel-Ann Mayers

Turnitin

Laura O’Hara

M&T Bank

David Pitofsky

News Corporation

Antonious Porch

SoundCloud/Conde Nast

Thomas Reid

Comcast

Paul Robinson

Warner Music Group

Adam Rosman

Fiserv

Kathryn Ruemmler

Goldman Sachs

Vandana Venkatesh

Verizon

Joseph Wayland

Chubb

 

For this special occasion, NYCLA has invited, as its guests, judges from both the state and federal trial and appellate courts and government officials.  The Annual Gala is a magnificent event, renowned as the “bench and bar event of the year.”  Robert L. Haig of Kelley Drye & Warren LLP is the Event Chair.

 

About the New York County Lawyers Association
The New York County Lawyers Association (www.nycla.org) was founded in 1908 as one of the first major bar associations in the country that admitted members without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or gender. Since its inception, it has pioneered some of the most far-reaching and tangible reforms in American jurisprudence.  For more information on NYCLA please visit nycla.org

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