George Chen for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

11/05/2017

Some wonderful memories of the 2017 NAPABA Convention in Washington DC on Nov. 2-5.

07/22/2017

Congratulations to APABA-SV and its President, Hogene Choi, for hosting a successful NAPABA Western Regional Conference during the past 3 days at the Silicon Valley Regional Office of the US Patent and Trademark Office. Thank you for the invitation to speak during one of yesterday's CLE panels regarding "Pathways to Leadership" with Pankit Doshi, Jin Hwang, and Bijal Vakil, as moderated by Brian Wong.

07/19/2017

The report’s findings, [California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu] said, turns the Asian “model minority” myth on its head. “People think Asian Americans are doing so well. But when you look at the top rungs, Asian Americans aren’t doing well at all."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/18/there-are-94-united-states-attorneys-only-three-of-them-are-asian-american/?utm_term=.1892eeb40cf8

Asian Americans fill elite law schools, but are vanishingly rare at the tops of law firms

07/15/2017

Thank you to Arizona Supreme Court Justice Timmer for her insightful opening remarks at the Arizona Collaborative Bar's Summer Mentoring CLE. Thanks, also, to the attendees for making the event a success. The other faculty and I enjoyed speaking with you, and we hope to continue our conversations soon.

The Arizona Collaborative Bar is an association of affinity bars in Arizona, including the Arizona Asian American Bar Association, the Arizona Black Bar, Los Abogados Hispanic Bar Association, and the Native American Bar Association - Arizona.

http://arizonablackbar.org/files/cle_invitation.pdf

07/14/2017

Early-bird registration for the 2017 NAPABA Convention is NOW OPEN!

For more information on registration, as well as hotel accommodation and scholarships, click here: http://bit.ly/2017NAPABACon

04/06/2017

Leaders from national diversity bar associations (including NAPABA, HNBA, and NBA) attending and supporting the annual meeting of the National Native American Bar Association (NNABA). Congratulations to outgoing NNABA president Jennifer Weddle and incoming NNABA president Diandra Benally!

03/27/2017

Thinking about running for public office? Be sure to attend the APAICS National Leadership Academy for Elected Officials in Washington, D.C. on May 15-16, 2017!

Click on the link below for more details and to register by March 31, 2017.

http://apaics.org/national-leadership-academy/

The APAICS National Leadership Academy for Elected Officials was established in 1999 to provide Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) elected officials with the skills and resources needed to excel in their current office as well as prepare them for opportunities to advance into higher office.…

02/23/2017

Thanks to the Phoenix Chapter of the Federal Bar Association for conducting today's informative CLE on Executive Order 9066 and the US Supreme Court's Hirobayashi case from 75 years ago.

Thanks, also, to the Arizona Asian American Bar Association (AAABA) for sponsoring the Ninth Judicial District Historical Society's traveling exhibit on this topic. Photos of the traveling exhibit are shown below, along with photos of some of ASU Professor, Dr. Kathy Nakagawa's personal collection of artifacts from the Gila River, Arizona internment camp from the 1940's.

02/23/2017

I hope to see many of my NAPABA friends and colleagues at the 2017 NAPABA Lobby Day on May 22-23 in Washington, D.C.! Come to our nation's capital, and use your lawyer skills to advocate for your community.

Register today, and apply for a travel stipend!

http://www.napaba.org/page/lobbyday

The NAPABA Annual Lobby Day is an opportunity for NAPABA members from across the country to educate members of Congress and Congressional staffers on issues of importance to the Asian Pacific American (APA) community. Lobby Day also gives members an active role in promoting NAPABA's mission of advoc...

02/04/2017

Congratulations to NAPABA past president Peggy Nagae for being honored by the American Bar Association with one of the four 2017 Spirit of Excellence awards for her lifelong achievements in promoting diversity and inclusion in the legal profession!

01/25/2017

Legal Lessons of the Japanese Internment 75 Years after Executive Order 9066
Thursday, February 23, 2017
12 noon - 1:15 pm MT
Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. District Courthouse
Phoenix, Arizona

Seventy-five years ago, following the attack on Pearl Harbor and as the United States entered World War II, Presidential directives issued in February 1942 led to curfews and the forcible relocation of more than 100,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps. The Federal Bar Association's Phoenix Chapter panel will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Hirabayashi v. United States and Korematsu v United States, which upheld criminal convictions for two young Japanese American men who defied the curfews and the relocation policies, and the subsequent decisions reversing those convictions. The panel will also discuss the relevance of this history and these decisions today as our nation combats terrorism.

http://www.fedbar.org/Chapters/Phoenix-Chapter/Calendar/Phoenix-Chapter-Legal-Lessons-of-the-Japanese-Internment.aspx

01/20/2017

© Getty Images U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Michelle Lee will remain as the agency's head into the Trump administration despite speculation that she would step down or be replaced.Lee will announce as soon as today that she’ll be kept on by the new administration, a source told The Hill...