Sunnyside lawyer named president of Network of Bar Leaders

Sunnyside resident and New York City Bar Association Senior Manager Eve Guillergan was installed as the president of the Network of Bar Leaders on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. 

Photo courtesy of Guillergan

By Rachel Vick

Leadership from across the city’s bar associations gathered Monday to celebrate the incoming leadership for the Network of Bar Leaders.

Sunnyside resident and New York City Bar Association Senior Manager Eve Guillergan was installed as president during a ceremony in the Museum of Korean American Heritage celebrating the diversity represented in the participating bars, including the Queens County Bar Association.

Guillergan, a first generation lawyer, immigrated to Missouri from Korea with her family as a child and said that seeing the specialized bars flourish over the years “has been an incredible journey.”

“It has been wonderful to see an exchange of ideas and information and collaboration among different bar associations,” she said. “Our officers and executive council and past presidents and officers are a great team, they work hard, and I believe that we will continue to do good work for the legal community.”

“I am very much looking forward to the year and working towards the wonderful mission of the network,” Guillergan added.

First Vice President Yacine Barry-Wun from the New York Women's Bar Association, Second Vice President Margaret T. Ling from the Asian American Bar Association of New York, Recording Secretary Edwina F. Martin from the Staten Island Women's Bar Association, Corresponding Secretary Denisse S. Mira, from the Metropolitan Black Bar Association will lead the coalition into 2022.

Michael Kohan from the Queens County Bar Association will serve as treasurer.

The new Executive Council is made up of Gloribelle J. Perez from the Dominican Bar Association, William F. Dahill from the SDNY Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Domenick Napoletano, from the Brooklyn Bar Association, Ronald Katter from the Jewish Lawyers Guild, Natoya L. McGhie from the Brooklyn Women's Bar Association, Inie Park from the Korean American Lawyers Association of Greater New York, Hon. Jeffrey Levin from the New Rochelle Bar Association, Shain Filcher from the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and outgoing president of the Network Meredith R. Miller.

Hon. Diane Gujarati of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York was the guest speaker and Hon. George B. Daniels, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York performed the installation.