The founder and partner of Gershman Law, PLLC, Dyan Gershman has over 30 years of experience as a practicing corporate lawyer, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, and commercial contracts. In addition to her legal practice, Dyan Gershman is an active member in her legal community and a member of a number of legal organizations, including the New York City Bar Association (City Bar).
Comprised of practicing attorneys as well as law students, the City Bar's membership is over 24,000. Established in 1870, the City Bar’s mission is to equip and mobilize a diverse legal profession to practice with excellence, promote legal reforms, and uphold the rule of law and access to justice in support of a fair society.
This mission is probably most manifested through activities carried out through the City Bar Fund, a non-profit arm of the City Bar which does good work for those in need. One of its programs is the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice (Vance Center), which provides an international platform whose principles are based on governance through shared ideas.
The Vance Center provides pro bono legal support to organizations around the world in three areas. The first area is through its environmental program, which focuses on environmental stewardship in the context of human rights. The second area, the human rights and justice program, concentrates on protecting people from discriminatory practices, corruption, injustice, and violence, in addition to also supporting other international organizations with a human rights platform. The third area, the good governance program, emphasizes transparency and supports independent journalism to hold officials and institutions government accountable.
