Brooklyn and Criminal Bar Associations host U.S. Attorney Breon Peace for Reception

December 1, 2022 Rob Abruzzese

Michael Farkas (left) served as the moderator for the Brooklyn Bar Association and the Kings County Criminal Bar Association’s Meet and Greet with U.S. Attorney Breon Peace on Wednesday night. Eagle photo by Robert Abruzzese

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The Brooklyn Bar Association held a Meet and Greet with Breon Peace, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday night.

The event was co-sponsored by the Kings County Criminal Bar Association.

Members from both events got an opportunity to mingle with the U.S. Attorney and his staff prior to a discussion with Michael Farkas, a Brooklyn Bar Association board member and past president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association.

While some were familiar with the U.S., many members were meeting the Brooklyn-born attorney for the first time.

Peace, who grew up in Crown Heights, was a graduate of Clara Barton High School and eventually the NYU School of Law. His legal career started as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Sterling Johnson, Jr.

He began working at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in 1996 as an associate and after a stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney For the Eastern District from 1999 through 2002, Peace went back to Cleary Gottlieb and eventually was named partner in 2007.