In This Edition
- Just Released: Fourth Episode of The Whole Lawyer Project Featuring Steph Cha
- In the News: AABANY and Paul, Weiss’ Report on Anti-Asian Violence Cited in The Guardian and Madison.com
- In The News: Fordham Law News Spotlights AABANY’s Covid Rent Relief Program
- Spike Lee Interviews AABANY Board Director Chris Kwok
- Press Release: Meng and Hirono to Introduce Legislation to Combat Surge of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes
- AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: Manhattan - Vacancies, Investment, Development and the Future, March 16
- Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer Featuring the Judiciary Committee, March 19
- AABANY Co-Sponsors: 10th Annual CLS APALSA Conference: "Writing Your Own Script," March 20
- AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: "Get Cash Now: Paycheck Protection Program—Part 2," March 24
- AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: "Growing Nassau County Real Estate," March 25
- Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer Featuring Founders of AABANY, March 26
- AABANY Co-Sponsors: Unapologetically, YOU, March 31
- NAPABA Affiliate Membership Code Now Available
- Join AABANY’s Legal Referral and Information Service Panel
- Read AABANY's 2019 Year End Report
- Join the AABANY Community Response Task Force
- AABANY Clerkship Directory
- Discounted Membership - New York City Bar Association
- AABANY Speakers Bureau
- Career Placement Committee Intake Form Now Available
- NAPABA News
- AABANY Seeks Legal Interns
- This Week on WE Blog @AABANY
- Fellowship Announcements
- Upcoming Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Other Events on the AABANY Calendar
- Recent Job Postings on the AABANY Career Center
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| For our next episode of The Whole Lawyer Project, we speak with Steph Cha, a Korean American novelist and attorney who wrote her first novel while a student at Yale Law School. Steph’s fourth and most recent book, Your House Will Pay, won the LA Times Book Award.
After trying her hand in BigLaw, Steph knew very early on that she was going to forge her own path. Steph opens up about how she structured her legal career so she can write for six months out of the year, what advice she has for those of us who want to pursue our creative passions, and how important it is for us to keep an open mind for our dreams and future possibilities. We hope you enjoy this refreshingly honest account of Steph’s off-the-beaten-path journey.
Click here to listen to The Whole Lawyer Project. |
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AABANY and Paul, Weiss’ report on anti-Asian violence was recently mentioned in a March 1, 2021 article on The Guardian about TurboVax, a bot created by Huge Ma to help New Yorkers across the state locate available COVID-19 vaccination appointments. Over the February 27 weekend, Huge Ma temporarily suspended TurboVax to protest the hate crimes against Asian Americans. In the article, The Guardian cited AABANY’s report on the surge of incidents of anti-Asian hate and violence. To read the full article, click here.
Chris Kwok, AABANY Board Director and Co-Executive Editor of the report, was interviewed in a madison.com segment titled “Anti-Asian attacks on the rise” on February 23, 2021. He encouraged Asian Americans who have experienced anti-Asian discrimination or harassment to report and discuss what happened, rather than let it go unreported.
Please also take a look at previous blog posts from February 19, March 1, and March 8 highlighting news stories about our report. If you have come across a news report or article about our report that is not listed above, please let us know at main@aabany.org.
More public awareness about our report and the rise in anti-Asian violence is needed. Please share our report widely. If you have ideas or thoughts about how we can combat anti-Asian violence, please share them with us at main@aabany.org.
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On March 9, 2021, Fordham Law News published an article spotlighting the role that Fordham Law students have played in spearheading AABANY’s Covid Rent Relief Program. Olympia Moy ‘21 and Meng Zhang ’20 kickstarted AABANY’s volunteer effort last summer, after New York State launched a rent relief program to assist residents who had lost income due to the pandemic. Concerned about low-income Chinatown-area residents, many of whom did not speak English as their first language, Moy and Zhang worked with other AABANY law students and attorneys to hold a one-day rent assistance event. On July 26, the volunteers helped 125 pre-registrants and many walk-ins navigate the challenging application process. When the state’s rent relief program opened its second round of applications in the winter, AABANY volunteers teamed up again to disseminate the program information and invite applicants to contact AABANY’s hotline for assistance. Nicholas Loh ‘22 helped lead this two-week hotline effort, connecting over 85 callers with Chinese-speaking volunteers.
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On March 3rd, 2021, AABANY Board Director, Asia Practice Committee Co-Chair, and Issues Committee Chair Chris Kwok was invited to visit Spike Lee at his production site in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Known for his movie Do The Right Thing (1989), Director Spike Lee is in the process of filming an eight hour documentary to capture New York’s resiliency from 9/11 to Covid-19. For the upcoming documentary, Spike Lee interviewed over 200 people and wanted to interview Chris to speak about the Asian American community in New York.
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This press release has been issued by the Offices of Congresswoman Grace Meng and Senator Mazie Hirono.
For Immediate Release: March 11, 2021
Contacts:
- MENG: Mark Olson, 202-819-5580
- HIRONO: Martha Spieker, 202-365-7943
Legislation comes as Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders experience wave of physical, verbal, and online attacks
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), First Vice Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI), Executive Board Member of CAPAC, announced their plan to reintroduce the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which seeks to address the ongoing hate and violence targeted toward Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) by providing greater assistance with law enforcement response to COVID-19 hate crimes and creating a position at the Department of Justice to facilitate expedited review of such cases. Read more here. |
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Please join Columbia Law APALSA at our 10th Annual Conference, held virtually via Zoom on March 20, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 3:30PM EST. This year's conference is generously co-sponsored by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY). Each year, CLS APALSA holds this event so that law students and young attorneys can hear from experienced Asian lawyers and learn about Asian perspectives in the legal profession. This year’s conference is titled "Writing Your Own Script” and we hope that you will be able to join us. Due to the unfortunate COVID circumstances, we will not be holding a gala after the conference this year. Here is the link to register for the conference. To view the conference schedule, please click on the flyer below. 
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One of the benefits of being an AABANY member is that you get a FREE Affiliate Membership to NAPABA. The code is now available. Please contact margaret.langston@aabany.org to get the code
and instructions to activate your Affiliate Membership. Note that NAPABA's membership follows the calendar year, i.e., January 1 to December 31, so to maximize your membership, be sure to renew now.
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This fall, AABANY launched a legal referral and information service (“LRIS”) as a public service primarily to help the general public, and especially the Asian American community. The goals of the LRIS are to provide information and referrals,
to recommend lawyers or other resources to provide competent, ethical legal advice and representation, to educate the public about legal representation and to increase respect for the legal profession.
We are seeking qualified
and experienced lawyers to serve on the panels of lawyers eligible to receive referrals from AABANY’s LRIS.
This is a vital program for AABANY that we anticipate will greatly benefit our panelists and fellow members as
well as the public, and especially the Asian American community. If you would like to apply to be considered for the LRIS panel, please contact joinlris@aabany.org and we will send you an application
form. If you have any questions, please send them to the same address.
We hope you can join us in the launch of this important new AABANY initiative.
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The Year End Report reviews the various events and initiatives undertaken by AABANY to further the interests of APA lawyers and recognizes the accomplishments of its members during the past year. Please click on the image below to read
the report.
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| AABANY’s Issues Committee is pleased to invite you to join the AABANY Community Response Task Force! The Community Response Task Force (CRTF) is AABANY’s answer to the rapidly changing legal landscape and the need for quick, effective, and
coordinated responses to the emergent issues that affect our communities. AABANY is firmly committed to being a strong voice and steadfast advocate on behalf of the Asian-American/Pacific-Islander community. During these challenging times,
we have all been witness to sweeping changes that necessitated powerful legal responses. While there have been some great triumphs, there were often times when it was difficult to obtain information, to find ways to contribute, or to organize
a response quickly enough to be effective.
The CRTF is specifically designed to address these needs. The CRTF will serve as a central clearinghouse for information and coordination – tailoring the alerts sent to each volunteer based on that volunteer’s preferences and the needs of the community. Alerts and actions will range from emergency legal services to direct non-legal service actions and from workshops to rallies.
PLEASE NOTE that the Community Response Task Force form has been updated. Even if you have already filled out the form, we kindly ask that you resubmit your interest here.
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Did you clerk for a judge? Have you served as a court attorney? If so, please fill out our AABANY law clerk/court attorney survey!
The Judiciary Committee has created a clerkship directory to gather information about our members who may be willing to act as future resources and/or ultimately want to become a judge. If you've ever clerked for a judge, please take a minute to fill out this survey and forward to others here. We appreciate your help!
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The New York City Bar Association is offering discounted membership to AABANY members. They will waive your one-time admission fee and give you 20% off your first membership dues payment. Membership dues are dependent on your earliest
year of admission in any state or country. Click here to take advantage of this great deal.
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Interested in future speaking opportunities? Join the confidential AABANY Speakers Bureau if you're open to raising your profile and sharing your expertise. Click here to access the 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. Email main@aabany.org if
you have any questions.
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Interested in moving your legal career forward? Launched at the 2013 Fall Conference, the Career Placement Committee seeks to match qualified AABANY members with available legal positions.
The Career Placement Committee Intake
Form is now available. Click here to help us help you. Feel free to also email your resumes and CVs to resume@aabany.org. All information disclosed
will be treated with the utmost confidentiality. If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Career Placement Committee at careers@aabany.org.
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Applications are now being accepted for AABANY’s 2021 Legal Internship Program. Open to college students, law students and law grads, AABANY is looking for a few talented, energetic and motivated interns to help plan and organize AABANY
programs and events, provide research and administrative assistance and perform other tasks and assignments to advance and promote AABANY’s mission. Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis. For full details and information
on how to apply go to bit.ly/Lgl_Intrn_Details.
Please direct any questions to Executive Director Yang Chen at yang.chen@aabany.org.
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Fellowship announcements can be found on AABANY's website under Career Center, in the sub-menu item "Fellowships." To
see current announcements for Fellowships, click here.
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- March 16: AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: Manhattan - Vacancies, Investment, Development and the Future. For more information, click here.
- March 19: Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer Featuring the Judiciary Committee. For more information, click here.
- March 20: AABANY Co-Sponsors: 10th Annual CLS APALSA Conference: "Writing Your Own Script." For more information, click here.
- March 23: AABANY Co-Sponsors: Breaking Barriers: Women in Sports. For more information, click here.
- March 24: AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: "Get Cash Now: Paycheck Protection Program—Part 2." For more information, click here.
- March 25: AABANY Real Estate Committee Presents: "Growing Nassau County Real Estate." For more information, click here.
- March 26: Weekly AABANY Membership Mixer Featuring Founders of AABANY. For more information, click here.
- March 31: AABANY Co-Sponsors: Unapologetically, YOU. For more information, click here.
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- March 17: WCBA Presents: Learn How to Level Up Your Legal Writing, Tech, and Practice Skills with Write.law. For more information, click here.
- March 17: New York City Bar Presents: How to Become an Assistant United States Attorney. For more information, click here.
- March 18: BWBA Presents: Making History and Paving the Way: A Clerk for the First Female Supreme Court Justice. For more information, click here.
- March 18: ACBA Presents: The Upstate Experience: The Latin Bench - Why their presence matters! For more information, click here.
- March 23: JALBCA Presents: What Black Women Need To Know about Hereditary Breast Cancer. For more information, click here.
- March 25: NAWJ Presents: The Role of Women’s Organizations in Shattering Glass Ceilings. For more information, click here.
- March 26: Legal Services Clinic Presents: Franklin H. Williams Bust Unveiling Ceremony. For more information, click here.
- March 29: MBBA Presents: Fireside Chat with Maya Wiley. For more information, click here.
- March 31: Brooklyn Women's Bar Association Presents: I AM SPEAKING: Being Your Authentic Self. For more information, click here.
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- Senior Associate General Counsel, New York University, NYC
- Assistant Director, New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, NYC
- Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, Washington, D.C.
- Assistant United States Attorney, USAO Northern District of Illinois, Chicago, IL
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For more information on these listings and other open positions go to the AABANY Career Center. Members must be signed in to have access to the Career Center. Either search by keyword or just hit "Search" at the bottom of the form to see a
complete listing of jobs.
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