AABANY 2026 Fall Conference

AABANY’s 2026 Fall Conference, Rising Up to Meet the Future: Cultivating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today, is a full Saturday at Fordham Law School on September 26, 2026. The day stacks multi-track CLE in the morning and afternoon, a plenary lunch, a Trial Advocacy Program, a Diversity Career Fair, and a cocktail reception where AABANY presents its Trailblazer Award. A separate Link-Up track is invite-oriented on host materials; do not assume Trailblazer cocktail access equals Link-Up access. Member discounts apply when you are logged into an AABANY account. The final registration deadline on host copy was September 18. As of late September, treat open online registration as unlikely and confirm late, transfer, or onsite options on the live page before you plan around a seat.

AABANY is New York’s primary Asian American bar association and one of the densest legal professional graphs in the Circuit. The Fall Conference is the chapter’s signature autumn room: judges, firm lawyers, in-house counsel, students, and public-interest practitioners sharing one building near Lincoln Center. That is a different compounding pattern from a generic Midtown happy hour. Pick CLE tracks before you arrive so the career fair and reception have a clear ask instead of a random circuit of tables.

This is right for Asian American lawyers, law students, and legal-adjacent professionals who can use CLE credit and New York bar introductions. Skip it if you need a startup pitch night or a finance-only mixer. Subway timing to Fordham Law matters on a Saturday; leave buffer if you are coming from Brooklyn or Queens. Bring business cards and a short practice-area story for the reception floor you actually have access to.

Fordham Law check-in can queue when morning CLE opens, so arrive early enough to claim your badge and find the first track room without missing the opening minutes. If you need CLE certificates, confirm how AABANY tracks attendance before you leave the building. Students hunting the Diversity Career Fair should bring printed résumés and a tighter pitch than a generic networking hello. If the main cart is closed, check transfer rules or any late window before you buy a train ticket.

If you want a lighter follow-up, AABANY’s Legal Careers Panel at NYU the next afternoon is the student-and-early-career companion room. Start on conference2026.aabany.org or the AABANY events page, confirm whether any path still sells, and only then block the Saturday. Re-check track rooms on the conference site the morning of if schedules shift.