The Office of the Appellate Defender will host the 22nd annual First Monday in October fundraising event on Oct. 5 at the New York University School of Law at 40 Washington Square South. Matrimonial attorney Myrna Felder and Roy Reardon, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, will co-chair the event.

The Gould Award for legal advocates will be presented to Caitlin Halligan, a litigation partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and Gary Naftalis, a partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.