November 2009

Hello fellow ACC members.

I am honored to have been elected Chapter President and I look forward to working with you to bring added value to the in-house bar in New York. This will be a group effort among my colleagues you have elected to the Board of Directors as well as a very strong collection of insightful sponsors. More than anything, however, the vitality and growth of the chapter will result from expanding the cadre of actively involved volunteers. 

I have been an ACC member for many years. I have taken advantage of CLE programs, attending social networking events, and I utilized the ever-expanding ACC resources available on-line. I cannot tell you how valuable ACC has been to me during my career. I became interested in becoming more involved when the chapter began an initiative to re-vitalize one of its activities that taps into ACC’s greatest potential – networking among members. This networking can range from the general camaraderie of in-house counsel to participating in specific industry or subject matter groups.

In my case, working with a colleague, Kelly Koyama of Marc Jacobs International LLC (also recently elected to the chapter board), we formed what is now the Retail Law Member Practice Group. We held discussions among similarly other in counsel in the industry and worked with chapter sponsor Troutman Sanders to present a comprehensive CLE program on current issues in retail law. The chapter was flexible in providing support as the group developed. If you would like to join the Retail Law Member Practice Group, or another practice group, please refer to the contact information in the group profiles at the noted tab. If you are interested in forming a new practice group, or have any other ideas which you would like to discuss with me, I strongly encourage you to contact me or at the email address below, which I have established exclusively for ACC communications. Naturally, we will continue to offer first-rate CLE at no cost to members. ACC-GNY sponsored CLE strives to be as in-house specific and practical as possible. The development of Member Practice Groups makes this effort even stronger.

I look forward to seeing you at upcoming ACC-GNY activities.

Nancy L. Cohen, President, Greater New York Chapter - ACC
cohenancy@me.com 

Communications may also be directed to the Executive Director, John Ogden, at accgreaterny@yahoo.com.