2018 2L NAPABA/Mayer Brown/Prudential Law Fellowship Now Accepting Applications
Application Deadline | Aug. 14 at 5 p.m. EDT
Learn More and Submit an Application
Here
NAPABA is pleased to partner with
Prudential Financial Inc. (Prudential) and Mayer Brown to provide a fellowship
opportunity for a highly-motivated second-year law student. Through this
partnership, a talented law student will be selected as the 2018 NAPABA/Mayer
Brown/Prudential Law Fellow. The Fellow will join Mayer Brown in its New York
or Chicago office in the summer of 2018 following successful completion of his
or her second year of law school.
To be eligible to apply, 2L law
students must be a NAPABA member.
We are accepting submissions from 2L
students until Aug. 14. Submission requirements are as follows:
To apply, you must submit in a single PDF
document:
- a discussion of how diversity and inclusion in the workplace or in the academic environment has had a personal impact;
- an example of a time when the candidate faced a challenging project or assignment (work-related, community service, school-related, etc.) that required working with others in a team (including the issues, resolutions, and overall results); or
- a discussion of how participation in the NAPABA/Mayer
Brown/Prudential Fellowship Program will benefit and enhance the
candidate’s experience at Mayer Brown.
All materials must be received by
5 p.m. EDT on Aug. 14. Finalists must be available to participate in phone
interviews in August or September 2017. Selected candidates will be invited for
in-person interviews in New York, New York, or Newark, New Jersey, in August or
September 2017, with offers to be made shortly thereafter.
KEVIN D. KIM APPOINTED TO CUNY BOARD OF TRUSTEES BY GOVERNOR CUOMO; FIRST PERSON OF KOREAN DESCENT TO SERVE ON CUNY BOARD – CUNY Newswire
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo named Manhattan attorney and small-business owner Kevin D. Kim to the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York effective July 1, 2017. He replaces Wellington Z. Chen, who served from 2000 to 2017.
Congratulations to our AABANY Development Director Kevin Kim on this tremendous honor!
NAPABA Elections: Renew Membership by July 1st to Vote!
Are you up-to-date with your NAPABA Membership? Be sure to renew by July 1 to be eligible to vote in the NAPABA Officer Elections, which will take place in August-September.
Check or renew your membership status by signing-in to your profile here.
As a reminder, membership dues operate on a calendar year, Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.
All members (direct and affiliate) must renew before the beginning of
each calendar year to ensure their membership status does not lapse.
NAPABA Voter Eligibility | Affiliate Membership Deadline to Activate is July 1
To be eligible to vote in this year’s elections, you must be a direct NAPABA member OR activate your NAPABA affiliate membership online by July 1.
You should have received information from your affiliate president about how to activate your NAPABA affiliate membership. Being an active affiliate member is not sufficient for voting purposes. You must activate your NAPABA membership. For more information about these membership changes, click here. To review our Membership FAQs Sheet, click here.
If you have already received a code from your affiliate organization, please proceed to activation with the following instructions.
- Visit: http://www.napaba.org/login.aspx
- Enter your email address and password. If you forgot your password, click on the reset your password link at the bottom of the member login page.
- Click manage profile to renew your membership.
- Follow the steps to update your profile.
- On the last and final page enter the code from your affiliate in the promotional code box. Click “apply code.”
Congratulations! You have successfully renewed your membership through Dec. 31, 2017
!If you receive a message that says username and password combination not found, please click here to register and proceed with the following instructions:
- Select the following options from the bottom of the page: Affiliate, Affiliate with Partners Directory ($250), Affiliate Associate, or Affiliate Law Student.
- Follow the registration prompts to create a new profile. Please note that you can waive the $100 fee on the last page of the registration form if you have an affiliate code.
- On the last and final page enter the code from your affiliate in the promotional code box. Click “apply code”.
- Congratulations, you have successfully renewed your membership through Dec. 31, 2017!
Chicago and National Bar Associations Support Local Victims of Alleged Hate Crime
For Immediate Release
June 22, 2017
For More Information, Contact:
Brett Schuster, Communications
Manager
bschuster@napaba.org,
202-775-9555
Press Release
CHICAGO — A coalition of
Chicago-area and national Asian Pacific American bar associations expressed
their support for Sufyan Sohel, deputy director of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations Chicago (CAIR-Chicago), and CAIR-Chicago, victims of
a series of threating
calls recently charged as a hate crime.
On May 16, 2017, Sohel received a
threatening voicemail on his office phone from Marvin Meyer stating, “Hey.
Guess what? This is America calling. You are not welcome here… We will kill
you.” His message insulted Allah and Democrats, and Meyer also asked, “Do I
seem afraid of you?” This was one of four calls left at CAIR-Chicago that
morning, all with a similar message.
Meyer admitted to calling Sohel and
he has been charged with a felony count of a hate crime and a misdemeanor count
of a telephone threat.
The Chicago-area bar associations
(the Asian American Bar Association of Chicago, the Chinese American Bar
Association of Chicago, the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Chicago,
the Korean American Bar Association of Chicago, the South Asian Bar Association
of Chicago) and the national bar associations (the National Asian Pacific
America Bar Association and the South Asian Bar Association North America)
condemn the threatening calls and the rising level of hate witnessed around the
globe against Muslim, South Asian and other minority communities. The bar
associations praise the Cook County State’s Attorney Office and the Chicago
Police Department for investigating the specific allegations raised by the
voicemails and taking action to ensure that all residents, regardless of
gender, race and national origin, feel welcome and safe in the City of Chicago.
Sohel, past president of the South
Asian Bar Association of Chicago, is an American-born attorney whose parents
came to this country from India. As deputy director at CAIR-Chicago, Sohel
oversees the organization’s legal strategy and is a frequent speaker on social
justice and civil rights issues. CAIR-Chicago is a non-profit organization
that defends the civil rights or Muslim Americans through outreach, advocacy
and litigation.
The bar associations urge attorneys,
other legal associations and community members to help stem the rise of hate
crimes by reporting incidents and seeking assistance immediately. Please visit
the respective bar associations’ websites for additional information.
For more information, the media may contact Brett Schuster,
NAPABA communications manager, at 202-775-9555 or bschuster@napaba.org.
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is the national
association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors, and
law students. NAPABA represents the interests of almost 50,000 attorneys and
more than 80 national, state, and local Asian Pacific American bar
associations. Its members include solo practitioners, large firm lawyers,
corporate counsel, legal services and non-profit attorneys, and lawyers serving
at all levels of government.
NAPABA continues to be a leader in
addressing civil rights issues confronting Asian Pacific American communities.
Through its national network of committees and affiliates, NAPABA provides a
strong voice for increased diversity of the federal and state judiciaries,
advocates for equal opportunity in the workplace, works to eliminate hate
crimes and anti-immigrant sentiment, and promotes the professional development
of people of color in the legal profession.