Lawyers Division Annual Event

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

6:00 PM

Manhattan

In addition to paying tribute to Sandra C. Goldstein of Kirkland & Ellis, and Adam L. Goodman of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, we’re honored to announce that Nadav Eyal, journalist and senior research scholar at Columbia, will be the keynote speaker at our UJA Lawyers Division Annual Event.

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Honorees

Sandra C. Goldstein

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer Award

Sandra Goldstein leads the litigation department at Kirkland’s New York office and was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. She has a broad litigation practice, with a particular focus on securities, M&A, and commercial disputes. Her clients have included 3G Capital, Barnes & Noble, Constellation Brands, Grubhub, Honeywell, IBM, J. Crew, Novartis, Pitney Bowes, Qualcomm, Starwood Hotels, Target, United Airlines, and Xerox.

Sandra represents clients, including corporations and their boards, in all manner of securities litigation — stock drop class actions, shareholder derivative suits, litigation demands—often securing pretrial wins, including a...

Adam L. Goodman

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, James H. Fogelson Emerging Leadership Award

Adam Goodman is a partner in the Litigation Department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. His practice focuses on merger litigation, antitrust enforcement challenges, federal securities class actions, and appeals.

He litigates high-stakes disputes across the state and federal courts. Recent matters include:

• Representing Twitter in its expedited Delaware litigation with Elon Musk, culminating in the $44 billion sale of the company on the deal’s original terms

• Representing Altria Group in a first-of-its-kind victory at trial over the FTC on the agency’s challenge seeking to unwind Altria’s...

Speaker

Nadav Eyal

Journalist and Author

Nadav Eyal is one of Israel's most prominent journalists and a winner of the Sokolov Award—Israel's equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He writes columns for Yediot Ahronot and Ynet, Israel's most widely circulated newspaper and news website, respectively, and is a contributor to Dan Senor’s Call Me Back podcast.

Nadav is the author of the best-selling book Revolt, The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization, which has been translated into multiple languages, including Korean, Thai, and Chinese. Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel, called it a "compelling and penetrating epic on the crisis of globalization and the liberal...

Leadership

Annual Event Chairs

Stephen D. Aronson
Managing Director and General Counsel
Roark Capital

Jon A. Ballis
Chair of the Executive Committee
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Scott A. Barshay
Chair of the Corporate Department
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

James O. Bourdeau
Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
Constellation Brands, Inc.

Jake Kling
Co-Chair, Mergers & Acquisitions
Member, Executive Committee
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Jonathan M. Moses
Co-Chair, Litigation
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

William Savitt
Co-Chair, Executive Committee
Co-Chair, Litigation
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Jodi J. Schwartz
Chair, Tax
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Annual Event Vice Chairs

Sam Adelsberg
U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

Alexander “Sasha” Aganin
Cornerstone Research

Berton W. Ashton, Jr.
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

Chris Baratta
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Neil Barr
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

A. Thompson Bayliss
Abrams & Bayliss LLP

Lisa H. Bebchick
Ropes & Gray LLP

Jeremy Bressman
Kobre & Kim LLP

Andy Cepregi
DOAR

John V. Berlinski
Bird Marella LLP

Steve Blake
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Loren Brown
DLA Piper

Daniel J. Bursky
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Andrew J. Ceresney
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Julia B. Cherlow
Bird Marella LLP

Ira J. Coleman
McDermott Will & Schulte

Elizabeth Cooper
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Mike Cliff
Analysis Group

David A. Crichlow
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Scott Danner
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Brad Davey
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

Jeffrey Dawidowicz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Yaira Dubin
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Scott A. Edelman
Milbank LLP

Wendy Fisher

Joele Frank
Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

David J. Friedman

Reuven P. Garrett
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Mary Gately
DLA Piper

Dennis Goodman

Mark I. Greene
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Raquel J. Greenberg
Greenberg Law

Susan Gregory
Veritext Legal Solutions

Samuel P. Groner
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Noah S. Heller
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

David B. Hennes
Ropes & Gray LLP

Adam L. Hoeflich
Bartlit Beck LLP

Marshall S. Huebner
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Paul Humphreys
Freshfields

Brian M. Jenks
Morgan Stanley

Gaurav Jetley
Analysis Group

Daniella Kahane

Blair Kaminsky
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Brad Karp
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Jared Kasner
Ineffable Ventures

Andrew A. Kassof
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Michael S. Kim
Kobre & Kim LLP

Steve G. Kobre
Kobre & Kim LLP

Joey Kolatch
Jasper Lake

Noah Kolatch
Jasper Lake

Meredith Kotler
Freshfields

Kyle H. Lachmund
Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A.

William M. Lafferty
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP

David Levy

Vincent Levy
Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP

Rory A. Leraris
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Andrew J. Levander
Dechert LLP

Don H. Liu
Flutter Entertainment

Scott B. Luftglass
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Linda Mirels

Mark Myott
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Amanda H. Nussbaum
Proskauer Rose LLP

Kevin J. Orsini
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Jennifer S. Perkins
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Tim Perla
Wilmer Hale

Mike Pittenger
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

Rachel Posner
Kroll, LLC

Emmanuel Pressman
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Danielle L. Rose
Kobre & Kim LLP

Leonard Rosen
Evercore Group LLC

Kenneth I. Rosh
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Bradley I. Ruskin
Proskauer Rose LLP

Heather J. Russell
TransUnion

Edward O. Sassower
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Colin Scher

Jane Scher

Joseph Scherban

Allie Schwartz
Cornerstone Research

Rahul Sekhar
Compass Lexecon

Chanakya Sethi
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Kevin R. Shannon
Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP

Ian Shapiro
Cooley

Jennifer M. Shotwell
Innisfree M&A Incorporated

Jacob Silverman
Kroll, LLC

Alexander Simkin
Ropes & Gray LLP

Peter L. Simmons
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Joshua B. Simon
McDermott Will & Schulte

Joseph R. Slights III
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Gil M. Soffer
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

James H.M. Sprayregen
Hilco Global

Jonathan R. Streeter
Dechert LLP

Joshua A. Sussberg
Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Avi Sutton
LionTree LLC

Tuvia Tendler
Akin

Andrew Todres
Ropes & Gray LLP

Greg Weinberger
Morgan Stanley

Scott S. Winter
Innisfree M&A Incorporated

Noah Yavitz
Ropes & Gray LLP

Damien Zoubek
Freshfields

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