Hellenic Lawyers Gala Honors Capetanakis, Maliagros

NEW YORK ? When the only issue at the 25th annual Dinner Dance Gala of the Hellenic Lawyers Association is the need for a bigger room ? New York venues don?t get much more elegant than the Pierre Hotel, however ? the clear verdict is that it was a great success. The sold-out gathering attracted friends and family of the honorees, Spiros Maliagros, President, TIG Advisors, and HLA Attorney of the Year award recipient Charles Capetanakis, Partner, Davidoff Hitcher & Citron and Chairman and Founder of the Hellenic Classical Charter School in Brooklyn, NY. HLA president Elena Paraskevas-Thadani welcomed the guests and acknowledged the members of the judiciary ? Greeks and Philhellenes ? who enjoy the annual affair. She paid tribute to them by noting their importance to society by saying, ?If we can?t settle our dispute in a civilized manner we are not a civilization.?

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