VABAW’s law students. Several VABAW law students will be graduating in 2008, and we wish them the best of luck on their future endeavors and on the bar exam: Sinjin Dinh (SU), Long Kevin Du (SU), Brian Ngo (SU), and My Vo (UW).
Congratulations to Vi Duong, University of Idaho School of Law (class of 2009), who just earned the position of Managing Editor of the Law Review at the University of Idaho School of Law. Vi is spending summer 2008 at the Spokane firm Witherspoon Kelley Davenport and Toole PS. George Radics, University of Washington School of Law (class of 2010), is spending his summer 2008 at Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle. Stephen Chen, University of Washington School of Law (class of 2010), is spending his summer 2008 at Seed IP Law Group in Seattle. VABAW’s overactive members. President-Elect Thi Huynh and VABAW member Anh Kiet Ngo are both Fellows in the Washington State Bar Association’s Leadership Institute Class of 2008. Their community service project concerning in-depth information about how to seek a pardon from the Governor in Washington State can be found at this website:
http://wapardonprocess.info/default.aspx
Thi and Kiet join former Fellows Kim Tran (Class of 2005), Thuy Nguyen-Leeper (Class of 2006), and Denise Tran (Class of 2007) in this leadership development program created by the WSBA Board of Governors.
Kim Tran continues her presidency of the Asian Counseling and Referral Services (“ACRS”). Kim was also recently elected to the King County Bar Association’s Board of Trustees as Secretary for the 2008-2009 term.
Thuy Nguyen-Leeper continues on the board of the KCBA Young Lawyers Division, serving a 2007-2010 term.
Peter Chu continues on the Board of Directors for the University of Washington School of Law.
VABAW member Walter Impert continues as a member of the board of Helping Link, a nonprofit organization that has served the Vietnamese community in Seattle since 1993.
For the “career moves and announcements” updates on our VABAW members:
Viet Nguyen joined Ogden Murphy Wallace, PLLC, in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Chris Priddy moved to Washington, DC, and joined Akin Gump.
Support of Other Legal Organizations. VABAW co-sponsored and co-organized the Third Annual Statewide Diversity Conference held on May 30, 2008. VABAW Secretary Lam Nguyen-Bull and VABAW Treasurer Catherine Vuong served on the planning committee for the conference, as well as VABAW Board Member Kim Tran who co-founded the original conference.
Members of VABAW have also taken active leadership positions with various Washington state joint minority bar programs including the Joint Asian Judicial Evaluation Committee; the Minority Report Card Committee; and the Initiative for Diversity Governing Council.
On a national level, VABAW has joined as an affiliate member of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (“NAPABA”). Seattle will be the location of the 20th Annual NAPABA conference in November 20-22, 2008. VABAW Board Member and former VABAW President Alice Wong is also the Northwest Regional Governor of NAPABA.
VABAW members are also serving on the planning committee for the Third Annual National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys (NCVAA) to be held in San Francisco on August 15-16, 2008. Washington state is one of three states to have an organized Vietnamese American bar association. VABAW members Peter Chu, Kim Tran, and Alice Wong will be speakers at the conference.