The Corporate Counsel Section of the New York State Bar Association is pleased to welcome Section members and visitors. The Section sponsors CLE, networking and other events and offers LinkedIn and Facebook pages where members can reach out to each other with questions and advice.
Contact the Corporate Counsel Section Liaison
To learn more about this Section, please contact Dana Alamia
[email protected]
(518) 487-5607
Joy Echer
I am honored to be the Chair of the Corporate Counsel Section, and privileged to lead the extraordinary group of attorneys who are members of this Section. Our Executive Committee is comprised of dedicated, hardworking and intelligent individuals who give freely of their time to move forward the initiatives of our Section and the New York State Bar Association.
Our Members include seasoned attorneys, recently admitted attorneys, law students, and even some who have retired. We are in-house counsel serving corporations, outside counsel serving corporate clients, and attorneys with varied practices. Most of us practice in New York state, many of us work in surrounding states, and some work internationally. Our practices range from law firms and corporations with hundreds of attorneys to solo practitioners.
The Executive Committee and I strongly believe that our Section offers something for each and every one of you. Membership benefits include a quarterly subscription to INSIDE, timely and topical CLE programming for which you receive a discounted registration rate, free lunchtime webinar informational briefings, various networking opportunities and access to the Section’s Committees. Section committees include CLE and Meetings, Diversity, Diversity Internship Program, INSIDE/Publications, Membership, Pro Bono, Strategic Initiatives, and Technology and New Media. Our committees are always pleased to welcome members who wish to become more involved!
We have many exciting programs, activities and events planned for 2020. I welcome you to become more active in our Section. Please reach out directly to me at [email protected] or our Section’s Liaison, Dana Alamia at [email protected] to learn more about how you can become involved. I encourage you to let us know if you have ideas for programs or initiatives that will benefit our members. I am happy to speak with you, as are the chairs of our various committees.
—Joy Echer
Online Community
Inside
Inside (Corporate Counsel Section Publication) provides updates on Section activities, recent cases, and articles about current issues. Topics of past articles include ethics, privilege, corporate criminal liability and internal investigations. Inside is published by the Corporate Counsel Section and distributed to Section Members free of charge.
Inside is published as a benefit for members of the Corporate Counsel Section and is copyrighted by the New York State Bar Association. The copying, reselling, duplication, transferring, reproducing, reusing, retaining or reprinting of this publication is strictly prohibited without permission. © New York State Bar Association. All rights reserved. ISSN 0736-0150 (print) ISSN 1933-8597 (online)
Inside (the Newsletter of the Corporate Counsel Section) encourages article submissions on topics of interest to members of the Section. Writing an article for a NYSBA Section publication is a great way to get your name out in the legal community and advertise your knowledge. Our authors are respected state-wide for their legal expertise in such areas as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, employer’s breach of a computer system, vertical price restraints, and ethical considerations of corporate counsel.
MCLE credit may also be earned for legal-based writing directed to an attorney audience upon application to the CLE Board. NYSBA Guidelines for Obtaining MCLE Credit for Writing as well as a Publication Credit Application are available.
If you have written an article and would like to have it considered for publication in Inside, please send it in electronic document format (pdfs are NOT acceptable), along with biographical information to:
Elizabeth J. Shampnoi
Shampnoi Dispute Resolution and Management Services, Inc.
[email protected]
Corporate Counsel Section Committee
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CLE And Meetings Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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Diversity Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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Diversity Internship (Corporate Counsel)
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Executive Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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KGS Program Law School Liaisons
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Membership Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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Pro Bono Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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Publications Committee (Corporate Counsel)
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Technology And New Media Committee
KENNETH G. STANDARD DIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
This committee is responsible for administering and managing all aspects of the Section’s Diversity Internship program, named in honor of former NYSBA President Kenneth G. Standard. The section works with various New York State law schools each year to select several law students from an under-represented group to apply for summer internships in corporate law departments with New York State based companies or organizations. This committee has also set up a mentoring program for internship alumni.
2019 is the 14th year of the Corporate Counsel Section’s Kenneth G. Standard Internship Program, which focuses on identifying and supporting in-house internship opportunities for law students from a diverse range of backgrounds. The program is named in honor of former Association president, Kenneth Standard, and his commitment to initiatives aimed at increasing diversity in the legal profession. Through its Diversity Internship Committee, the Corporate Counsel Section is one of a very few number of sections that has produced a program of this nature. The Section provides in its budget, funds for half of each student’s salary, but many of the host companies over the years fully provide for the students’ salaries. Due to the generosity of the host companies, more students each year are able to participate in the program. This year students are working with in-house counsel offices: Alliance-Bernstein, Chubb, Con Edison, Pepsi Co., Salesforce, Urban Justice and Visiting Nurse Service of New York are hosting interns from Albany Law School, Cardozo, Brooklyn Law School and St. John’s University School of Law. View the 2019 Kenneth G. Standard Diversity Internship Program Brochure here.
We invite any legal employer who is interested in learning more about the program to contact the Committee at: [email protected]
Photos of the July 17, 2019 Reception
Photos of the August 16, 2017 Reception
Photos of the August 16, 2016 Reception
Photos of the August 5, 2015 Reception
Photos of the July 23, 2014 Reception
Member Perspectives on the Corporate Counsel Section
- View Past Chair Natalie Sulimani’s perspective here
- View Yamicha Stephenson’s perspective here
- View Member Barbara Levi’s perspective here
Video Archives
- A Message from Mitchell Borger
- A Message from Sarah Feingold
- A Message from 2014 Past Chair Thomas Reed
Legal Links and Resources
Commercial Division Reports
Pro Bono Services
Corporate Law and the S.E.C.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- The SEC’s EDGAR database of corporate information
- The Legal Information Institute: Corporations Law Materials
Entertainment Law and the Arts
Public Utilities
- New York State Public Service Commission
- Public Utilities Reports, Inc. (PUR)
- The U.S. Government Services Administra on’s Information on Public Utilities
- Con Edison Home Page
- National Grid Home Page
Health, Drugs and Food
Telecommunications, Media and Advertising
- National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA)
- U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- The FCC’s Recent Judicial Opinions
Pro Bono Information
The Corporate Counsel section has a model program for corporations, information on opportunities for pro bono work, and a report adopted by the NYSBA House of Delegates
NYSBA supports the authorization of in-house counsel who are registered in New York State to provide pro bono assistance in New York as long as they are admitted in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
In June 2012, the NYSBA Corporate Counsel Section issued a report recommending amendments to state court rules that would allow in-house counsel, registered in New York, who are admitted elsewhere in the U.S. to perform pro bono services in New York. Specifically, the report urges amendments to New York’s Rules of the Court of Appeals for the Admission of Attorneys and Counselors at Law, 22 NYCRR Part 522.
The NYSBA Executive Committee and NYSBA House of Delegates approved the Section’s report.
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