Press Release
Duane Morris Partner Andrew Hahn Receives NYC Bar's Diversity Champion Award
NEW YORK, May 16, 2011—Duane Morris LLP partner Andrew T. Hahn has been selected by the New York City Bar Association (City Bar) to receive one of its Sixth Annual Diversity Champion Awards. The honor recognizes the key role individual attorneys have played in initiating and sustaining change within their organizations and the overall New York legal community. Award recipients embody City Bar's Statement of Diversity Principles, which defines diversity as an inclusive concept. Hahn will be presented the award on May 24, 2011, during a luncheon at the City Bar in New York.
Hahn, a partner in the New York office of Duane Morris, focuses his practice on commercial litigation matters involving contract disputes, including franchising; insurance; commercial leases; banking; employment; software licensing matters; and other corporate disputes. He also handles complex litigation, such as class actions relating to products liability and toxic torts; securities; and antitrust. Hahn has experience in government contracts, intellectual property, bankruptcy and banking litigation and matters involving complex technology.
Hahn is a former president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association of New York. He is a board member of the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York, and received the association's Trailblazer's Award in 2008. Hahn is also certified as a neutral for the American Arbitration Association. He is a graduate of Cornell Law School as well as a graduate of Cornell University.
About the New York City Bar Association
The New York City Bar Association, since its founding in 1870, has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law and providing service to the profession and the public. With more than 23,000 members, the association continues to work for political, legal and social reforms while implementing innovative means to help the disadvantaged. Tickets to the Sixth Annual Diversity Champion Award luncheon may be purchased on the City Bar's online event calendar (nycbar.org).
About Duane Morris
Duane Morris LLP, a full-service law firm with more than 700 attorneys in 24 offices in the United States and internationally, offers innovative solutions to the legal and business challenges presented by today's evolving global markets. Duane Morris manages its diversity and inclusion program with the objective of utilizing the best talent worldwide in solving legal problems. The firm recruits a diverse pool of lawyers that collectively possess an awareness of cutting-edge 21st century issues—legal, social and economic—for which clients require solutions. Because diversity management is integral to the core business of our management and each of our practice groups, our programs for the recruitment, retention and promotion of historically minority groups will continue and grow. The firm's attorneys and its leadership believe in accentuating the added value that diverse attorneys possess and generating profitable new business opportunities from this added value.
