NYACP 2026 ANNUAL MEETING

Thursday, December 10, 2026

New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 (between 5th & 6th Avenues)

Business Meeting ~ Networking Lunch ~ Professional Training ~ Evening Reception

CLE and CFP Credits will be available by NYACP
CE Credits for Mental Health Professionals via FamilyKind
FamilyKind is an approved NYS provider of Continuing Education Credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers and Licensed Psychologists

AGENDA

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch and NYACP Business and Membership Meeting

1:00pm - 5:00pm
David A. Hoffman Presentation:

This session will be interactive, consisting of breakout exercises amongst attendees as well as group discussion.

Breakout groups: Roleplay amongst groups in navigating crisis events
Group will go back and forth between large group session/discussion and breakout throughout this hour.

David A. Hoffman

David A. Hoffman is the John H. Watson, Jr. Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches three courses: Legal Profession: Collaborative Law; Mediation; and Diversity and Dispute Resolution.  David is also a Collaborative Law attorney, mediator, arbitrator, and founding member of Boston Law Collaborative, LLC, where he handles cases involving family, business, employment, and other disputes.  Prior to founding Boston Law Collaborative in 2003, David was a litigation partner at the Boston firm Hill & Barlow, where he practiced for 17 years.  He was a founding member of MCLC and is past chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution.  He has published four books on conflict resolution (including “Bringing Peace into the Room” (with Daniel Bowling)).  David is a graduate of Princeton (B.A. 1970); Cornell (M.A. 1974), and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1984), where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  He lives in a co-housing community in Acton, Massachusetts with his wife, Leslie Warner.  They have five adult children, an adolescent cat, and a rescued Golden Retriever.  Contact info available at www.blc.law.  

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