A member and past president of the New York Women’s Bar Association (NYWBA), Doris S. Hoffman served as President of WBASNY from 1994 through 1995. A graduate of Hunter College and NYU Law School (Class of 1967), Ms. Hoffman concentrated her practice in copyright and trademark law, and she spent nearly her entire career in partnership with her father and brother in Stoll, Stoll & Hoffman and successor firms in New York City. She was a member of the Committee on Character and Fitness of the First Department, Chair of the NYCLA’s Intellectual Property Committee, and for several years she was a dedicated volunteer for City Meals on Wheels and the Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert. During her term as President of WBASNY, Ms. Hoffman encouraged new lawyers to become active contributors to their profession and community and showed them how to do so.

Ms. Hoffman was the mother of two children, Aaron and Judith, and the devoted wife of attorney and NYWBA member Stephen Hoffman for almost 29 years, until her untimely death in 1997. Two WBASNY awards are named in her memory: The Doris S. Hoffman Medal, given by the Executive Board to a WBASNY member who has demonstrated exceptional leadership and service to women lawyers in New York State; and the Doris S. Hoffman Outstanding New Lawyer Award, given by the WBASNY Awards Committee to a WBASNY member who, as of the December 31st prior to the convention at which the award will be presented, has been a member of the bar for not more than five (5) years, and who has made outstanding achievements within the profession, outstanding contributions within the WBASNY member’s community, or both.