Tue. April 28 - Legal of New York

WHEN: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:30 - 7:45 PM
Networking Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 PM
Presentation including Q&A: 6:30 - 7:45 PM

PROGRAM: The Honorable Laura Ward of the NYC Criminal Courts will tell us the intriguing story of how she and her colleagues in the the United States Attorney’s Office successfully prosecuted notorious mob boss John Gotti. The NY Times referred to this as stunning accomplishment as "a scintillating triumph for a team of Federal prosecutors who, with years of diligence and a few good breaks, breathed new life into a tired old script and shattered the maddening aura of invincibility of a notorious gangster who called himself a plumbing salesman." (April 3, 1992)

Documents related to Judge Ward's presentation and furnished by her for background reading are available on the SLA-NY website.

Judge Laura Ward was appointed to the Criminal Court in New York County in 1997, where she served for three years before becoming an Acting Supreme Court Justice in January of 2000. Judge Ward formerly worked for the United States Attorney’s Office, New York State Attorney General’s Office, the Organized Crime Strike Force and a private law firm. She is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Plaza AIDS Foundation and the Associates Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. Judge Ward earned her JD from Fordham Law School.

WHERE: Thomson Reuters, 195 Broadway (at Fulton Street), Thomson Hall, 4^th Floor. Please join us in thanking Thomson Reuters which is donating the venue and catering for this event. Thomson Reuters is pleased to be an SLA-NY Centennial Year sponsor.

DIRECTIONS: A, C – to Broadway & Nassau; J, M, Z – to Fulton & Broadway; 2, 3, 4, 5 – to Fulton & Broadway.

RSVP: To Vida Cohen at cohen.v@att.net by close of business Tuesday, April 21st . In honor of its Centennial and of the outstanding nature of this program, SLA-NY is delighted to invite non-members, including our colleagues from other organizations of information professionals, to join us at no charge. Vida will confirm your RSVP, so if you have not received an email response, please re-send your RSVP. All attendees must be on the security list in advance.
** Please email Vida by close of business on Thursday April 23rd if you have to cancel your RSVP.