@ The Plaza Hotel

On behalf of President Domenick Napoletano, you are cordially invited to join us at the upcoming Presidential Gala in January honoring Justice Stephen Breyer as the 2025 Gold Medal Award recipient. The NYSBA Annual Dinner has been the flagship event for the association since 1878. The 2025 Gala will take place at the iconic Plaza Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Date: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Location: 768 5th Avenue | New York, NY 10019
Cocktail Reception: 7:30pm-8:30pm
Dinner: 8:30pm-10:30pm

Individual Tickets & Table Sponsorships Available via Dropdown Boxes Below

The Honorable Stephen Breyer is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Born in San Francisco in 1938, he is a graduate of Stanford, Oxford, and Harvard Law School. He has taught law for many years as a professor at Harvard Law School and at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also worked as a Supreme Court law clerk (for Justice Arthur Goldberg), a Justice Department lawyer (antitrust division), an Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980, he was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit by President Carter, becoming Chief Judge in 1990. In 1994, he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton. He has written books and articles about a range of legal topics, including administrative law, economic regulation, and the U.S. Constitution.  His books include Active Liberty (2005), Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View (2010), The Court and the World (2015), The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics (2021), and Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism (2024). His wife, Joanna, was born in Great Britain and is a retired clinical psychologist. They have three children—Chloe, Nell, and Michael—and seven grandchildren.

Photo Credit: The Collection of The Supreme Court of the United States