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...

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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.

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...

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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 

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 

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