Lawyers Division Annual Event
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
6:00 PM
placeManhattan

Join UJA Lawyers for our annual event — for the first time in a new venue. We’ll honor two exceptional legal professionals: Sandra C. Goldstein with the Judge Joseph M. Proskauer Award,  and Adam L. Goodman with the James H. Fogelson Emerging Leadership Award.

We’ll come together in a defining moment that demands our unprecedented action to help fuel UJA’s urgent work right now: helping Israel move forward, fighting antisemitism, securing Jewish communities across the world, and uplifting struggling New Yorkers. 


Young law professionals — join us for Young Lawyers After Dark
immediately following the Lawyers Division Annual Event. Register here. 

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 major...

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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.

Mr. Goodman 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...

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Leadership

UJA Lawyers Executive Committee

Chair
Brad S. Karp

Executive Committee
Peter Alderman • David B. Anders • Andrew B. Barkan • Scott A. Barshay • Ronit Berkovich • Donald S. Bernstein • Daniel B. Blaser • James Brandt • Daniel J. Bursky • Joel Cohen • Sharon Cohen Levin • Amy R. Doberman •  Kenneth H. Eckstein • David M. Feldman • David J. Friedman • Lauren Goldberg • Sandra C. Goldstein • Marc L. Greenwald • Benjamin Gruenstein • Noam I. Haberman • Alan S. Halperin • David E. Kahan • Jonathan J. Katz • Joseph H. Kaufman • Nancy Kestenbaum • Sharon L. Klein • Emil A. Kleinhaus • Alisa F. Levin • Seth L. Levine • Michael A. Levy • Kevin Matz • Theodore N. Mirvis • David J. Molton • Scott D. Musoff • Sharon L. Nelles • Risë B. Norman • Amanda H. Nussbaum • Jeffrey R. Poss • Jill L. Rosenberg • Allison R. Schneirov • Jodi J. Schwartz • Eric Seiler • Joseph C. Shenker • Adam L. Shpeen • Rachelle Silverberg • Jesse Solomon • Brian M. Stadler • Rachel R. Stern • Zena M. Tamler • Daniela Tisch • Michael Vogel • Shai Y. Waisman • Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser

Chair
Brad S. Karp

Executive Committee
Peter Alderman • David B. Anders • Andrew B. Barkan • Scott A. Barshay • Ronit Berkovich • Donald S. Bernstein • Daniel B. Blaser • James Brandt • Daniel J. Bursky • Joel Cohen • Sharon Cohen Levin • Amy R. Doberman •  Kenneth H. Eckstein • David M. Feldman • David J. Friedman • Lauren Goldberg • Sandra C. Goldstein • Marc L. Greenwald • Benjamin Gruenstein • Noam I. Haberman • Alan S. Halperin • David E. Kahan • Jonathan J. Katz • Joseph H. Kaufman • Nancy Kestenbaum • Sharon L. Klein • Emil A. Kleinhaus • Alisa F. Levin • Seth L. Levine • Michael A. Levy • Kevin Matz • Theodore N. Mirvis • David J. Molton • Scott D. Musoff • Sharon L. Nelles • Risë B. Norman • Amanda H. Nussbaum • Jeffrey R. Poss • Jill L. Rosenberg • Allison R. Schneirov • Jodi J. Schwartz • Eric Seiler • Joseph C. Shenker • Adam L. Shpeen • Rachelle Silverberg • Jesse Solomon • Brian M. Stadler • Rachel R. Stern • Zena M. Tamler • Daniela Tisch • Michael Vogel • Shai Y. Waisman • Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser

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