Speakers at the Federal Bar Council Law Clerk Reception on Oct. 10 at the Brooklyn federal courthouse are, from left, Robert J. Anello, president of the council; Christopher M. Colorado, chair of its First Decade Committee; Eastern District Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon and Judge Brian M. Cogan.

The reception, an annual event, drew 200 judges and clerks from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Southern and Eastern districts and the District of Connecticut.