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Vietgone

Vietgone

Previews begin today! We’re very happy to present a discount code for members of the Asian American community.

A modern twist on the all-American love story, Qui Nguyen’s (She Kills Monsters) new play Vietgone pulses with contemporary energy. It’s the classic story of boy meets girl – except it takes place in a relocation camp inside Middle America.Vietgone ranges from hilarity to heart-wrenching drama. Nguyen and director May Adrales (Luce at LCT3) skip through time and around the globe to present a fresh theatrical take on a moving account of one real family’s history.

A special 50% discount ($45 per ticket instead of $90) is offered to the Asian American community for Vietgone, which starts previews on October 4 and opens on October 25 (running until November 27).

DISCOUNT CODE
Phone/Box Office: AUD
Mobile/Web: 18429

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PRESS RELEASE | NAPABA ANNOUNCES YOON & KIM LLP AS ITS 2016 APA-OWNED LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

PRESS RELEASE | NAPABA ANNOUNCES YOON & KIM LLP AS ITS 2016 APA-OWNED LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

For Immediate Release
Sept. 14, 2016

For More Information, Contact:
Brett Schuster, Communications Manager
bschuster@napaba.org, 202-775-9555

NAPABA Announces Yoon & Kim LLP as its 2016 Asian Pacific American-Owned Law Firm of the Year

WASHINGTON — The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has named Yoon & Kim LLP as the 2016 Asian Pacific American-Owned Law Firm of the Year. NAPABA created the Asian Pacific American-Owned Law Firm of the Year Award to recognize Asian Pacific American-owned law firms that have achieved prominence and distinction while maintaining the highest ethical and legal standards in the profession, and have demonstrated a strong commitment to the Asian Pacific American community.

The Award also celebrates growing Asian Pacific American ownership and entrepreneurship in the legal marketplace. The presentation of the 2016 Asian Pacific American-Owned Law Firm of the Year Award will take place at the NAPABA Anniversary Gala during the 2016 NAPABA Convention in San Diego, California, on Nov. 5, 2016.

“NAPABA is pleased to honor Yoon & Kim LLP with the Asian Pacific American-Owned Law Firm of the Year Award,” said NAPABA President Jin Y. Hwang. “We applaud the firm’s continued leadership in the Asian Pacific American community while maintaining the highest standards in the legal profession.”

Yoon & Kim strives to improve the Asian Pacific American community by supporting numerous organizations and causes that seek to better the Asian Pacific American community.

By combining previous large law firm partnership level experience with exceptional Korean language and Asian cultural fluency, Yoon & Kim represents Korean and Asian Pacific American clients in high profile and high stakes matters traditionally entrusted to large law firms. Yoon & Kim’s practice areas consist of commercial and insurance litigation, international arbitration, regulatory compliance, business transactions, real estate, and lender representation.

For more information, the media may contact Brett Schuster, NAPABA communications manager, at202-775-9555 or bschuster@napaba.org.

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Internship Program – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

Internship Program – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

NAPABA provides undergraduate and law students who are interested in the legal profession and advocacy within the Asian Pacific American community with the opportunity to work in Washington, D.C. The program develops leadership and professional skills and encourages political and civic engagement. 

Current Opportunities

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FANHS | Filipino American National Historical Society

FANHS | Filipino American National Historical Society

Did you know that October is Filipino American History Month? 

The Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) announced “1946: A Turning Point”  as the theme for this year’s 2016 Filipino American History Month.  The theme was chosen to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of several notable events and pieces of legislation that transformed the lives of Filipinos in the Philippines and in the United States in 1946 such as the following:

  • The Rescission Act of 1946 barred veterans in the Philippines from receiving GI Bill benefits
  • The Luce-Celler Bill on July 2, 1946 granted access to naturalization for all Filipinos who had come to the United States before March 1934 and for all Indian immigrants in the United States, however Filipino and Indian immigration was limited to 100 per year.
  • Philippine independence from the United States was granted on July 4, 1946.

Check out the FANHS website and learn more. 

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PRESS RELEASE | NAPABA NAMES JENNY R. YANG AS ITS 2016 WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

PRESS RELEASE | NAPABA NAMES JENNY R. YANG AS ITS 2016 WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AWARD RECIPIENT – National Asian Pacific American Bar Association

NAPABA Names Jenny R. Yang as its 2016 Women’s Leadership Award Recipient

For Immediate Release
Sept. 28, 2016

For More Information, Contact:
Brett Schuster, Communications Manager
bschuster@napaba.org, 202-775-9555

WASHINGTON — The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has named Jenny R. Yang, chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as the recipient of the 2016 NAPABA Women’s Leadership Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of women lawyers and is presented to an individual who has achieved professional excellence in her field, demonstrated leadership and understanding of women’s issues, and made significant contributions to the Asian Pacific American legal community.

The award will be presented at the Women’s Leadership Network Breakfast & Plenary at the 2016 NAPABA Convention in San Diego, California, on Nov. 5, 2016.

“Ms. Yang has a long and remarkable history of service and leadership to the Asian Pacific American community, and LGBTQ and women’s’ rights,” said NAPABA President Jin Y. Hwang. “We applaud her commitment to advancing equal opportunity and fairness in the workplace, and NAPABA is proud to honor Ms. Yang as the 2016 Women’s Leadership Award recipient.”

Ms. Yang is the first Asian American to be named EEOC chair on a permanent basis in its 50-year history, and is also the first Asian American woman to serve on the Commission. The EEOC is a five-member bi-partisan commission responsible for enforcing our nation’s laws against workplace discrimination. She leads an agency with over 2,200 employees in 53 offices around the country with a budget of over $365 million.

Throughout her career in the non-profit, private, and government sectors, she has worked to protect the legal rights of Asian Pacific Americans through enforcement of our nation’s civil rights and workplace laws and through her service to the community. From 2007 until her confirmation to the EEOC in 2013, Ms. Yang served as a board member and vice chair of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, which is dedicated to providing linguistically and culturally appropriate legal services to Asian Pacific Americans in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region. From 1998 to 2004, she served as co-chair and board member of the National Governing Board of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, the only national multi-issue Asian Pacific American women’s organization in the country.

As chair of the EEOC, Ms. Yang is leading the agency as it charts its path forward for the next 50 years. She is also leading efforts to ensure that, as the nation’s largest employer, the federal government serves as a model employer. Moreover, she is engaged in a broad effort to build stronger workplaces by exploring the root causes of persistent forms of discrimination and identifying effective strategies to prevent and remedy discrimination.

For more information, the media may contact Brett Schuster, NAPABA communications manager, at202-775-9555 or bschuster@napaba.org.

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AABANY Speakers Bureau Form

AABANY Speakers Bureau Form

AABANY regularly receives requests from AABANY Committee Chairs and other bar associations for speakers to speak on various legal topics. This form is designed to collect information from our membership and engage those who are most interested in sharing their knowledge and expertise with various legal audiences. 

We respect your privacy. All information disclosed will be treated with the utmost confidentiality, limited to only the AABANY Officers and Staff. If at any point you would like to have your information removed from our Speakers Bureau database, please contact main@aabany.org to have your records disposed of permanently. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email main@aabany.org. Thank you in advance for your participation.

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2016-2017 Mentor Questionnaire

2016-2017 Mentor Questionnaire

We are extending the 2016-2017 AABANY Mentor application deadline to October 7, 2016. Sign up to positively influence a bright young APA attorney! 

We are excited to be preparing to launch the 2016-2017 AABANY Mentorship Program and have received strong interest from attorneys and law students signing up to be mentees.

We would love to increase participation by attorneys willing to serve as mentors to provide as meaningful an experience as possible to all participants and optimize the mentee/mentor ratio.

If you could kindly consider signing up to be a mentor (many thanks if you have already done so) or reach out to your committee members to encourage them to sign up, we would greatly appreciate it.

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Asian American Bar Commends Trailblazer

Asian American Bar Commends Trailblazer

A lovely photo of 2016 Norman Lau Kee Trailblazer Award Recipient Sylvia Fung Chin, alongside Executive Director Yang Chen and AABANY President Susan Shin, was featured in New York Law Journal. Thank you to Rick Kopstein for taking this photo at the 2016 AABANY Fall Conference held at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where the award was presented during the Cocktail Reception.

Named for Norman Lau Kee, a revered legal and community pillar of New York City’s Chinatown for decades, this Trailblazer Award honors an accomplished leader in the legal profession who is of Asian Pacific American descent or has demonstrated dedication to APA issues in the community. This award honors an individual who has carved a path for others to follow, served the community as a mentor and role model, and has made a lasting impact on the APA community through his or her dedication and commitment.

AABANY could think of no individual more deserving than Sylvia Fung Chin. Sylvia has continuously given back to the APA legal community in countless ways. Among the founding board members of AABANY in 1991 and President of AABANY from 1994-1996, she led and built AABANY from the ground up and has served as a role model and friend to several leaders in the profession. 

Thank you to Sylvia for all that she has done for our community, and thank you to New York Law Journal for capturing this beautiful moment.

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2016 Council of Korean Americans National Summit & Gala

2016 Council of Korean Americans National Summit & Gala

During the CKA Gala & Awards Dinner on Friday, October 14, we will honor several exemplary individuals who represent the best of our community’s contributions to society. This year’s Public Servant Award honoree is US District Judge for the Northern District of California Lucy Koh.

Judge Koh has been nominated to serve on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Described by President Barack Obama as “a first-rate jurist with unflagging integrity and evenhandedness,” Judge Koh truly exemplifies the best of Korean Americans in public service.

Judge Koh is the nation’s second-ever Korean American federal judge and would only be the second at the appellate court level if confirmed by the Senate. The first Korean American federal judge, Herbert Choy, also the first Asian American, was appointed to the federal court of appeals by President Nixon in 1971. 

To put Judge Koh into further perspective, there are only 26 active Asian American federal court judges out of 871 who active, about three percent.

Join us on October 14 as we celebrate Judge Koh’s historic achievements and service to our nation.

To purchase a ticket and register to attend the Gala & Awards Dinner, click on the link in the title. For more information about our annual National Summit, go to ckasummit.org.

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