EVENTS AND NEWS
April 10 General Meeting MCLE Presentation
Guest speaker, Sandra Chong, Assistant General Counsel of San Diego Unified School District, discussed “Making the Transition From Private Firm Practice To In-House Counsel: An insider’s Perspective.” If you were unable to attend the luncheon or would like to see the quality of CLE programs that are included in a PALSD membership, please click here to download an outline of Ms. Chong's presentation.
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2008 PALSD/FALSD Annual Dinner
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NAPABA ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF MENTORING COMMITTEE
NAPABA announces the formation of a Mentoring Committee, which will be tasked with forming a NAPABA mentoring program. This program will further serve and benefit NAPABA members in all stages and areas of practice. In addition, NAPABA Partners’ Committee will form its own separate mentoring program for the purpose of mentoring senior associates and partnership-track counsel. (The In House Counsel Committee’s mentoring program will remain status quo.) If you are interested in serving on the Mentoring Committee, either as a member or a chair/co-chair, click here to download the application to complete and submit to bettina.yip@att.com by Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
PAST
PALSD PRESIDENT JERRILYN MALANA IS ELECTED SDCBA BOARD PRESIDENT-ELECT
Past PALSD
President Jerrilyn Malana was elected 2008 President-Elect of the
San Diego County Bar Association (SDCBA). Jerri has an extensive history of volunteer service to
the SDCBA, the community, and the legal profession. She has served on the SDCBA’s Board
of Directors for two years and currently serves as Secretary on the
Executive Committee.
A
shareholder at Littler Mendelson, P.C., Jerri has also served as a board
member of the Filipino American Lawyers of San Diego and as Regional
Governor for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). She is also a recipient of the 2007
Trailblazer Award, NAPABA’s highest honor in recognition of the outstanding
achievements, commitment and leadership of lawyers who have who have
demonstrated vision, courage, and tenacity in their careers, making
substantial and lasting contributions to both the Asian Pacific American
legal community and the broader Asian Pacific American community.
In the
community, Jerri serves on the boards of the San Diego Opera, Union of Pan
Asian Communities (UPAC), and San Diego Asian Film Foundation. She is also the co-chair of Littler
Mendelson's national Diversity Council and has been a key contributor of
efforts to increase opportunities for women, attorneys of color, and gays
and lesbians within the Firm, Bar, and throughout the legal and business
community.
In the
108-year history of the SDCBA, Jerri will be become only the ninth woman,
the second lawyer of color, and the first Asian-American to serve as its
President when she succeeds Heather Rosing in 2009.
PALSD-ENDORSED
CANDIDATES ELIZABETH BALFOUR & MARVIN MIZELL ARE ELECTED TO COUNTY BAR
BOARD
The results
are in; Elizabeth Balfour and Marvin Mizell are two of the
newest members of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Board of
Directors. Marvin has been a member
of PALSD for several years and is a Deputy Attorney General in the Criminal
Division, Chair of the Ethnic Relations and Diversity Committee of the
County Bar, and past president of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association;
Elizabeth is an associate at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP,
co-chairs the Women's Resource Fair for Lawyers Club, was co-chair of the
Children at Risk Committee of the County Bar, and won her firm's Pro Bono
Attorney of the Year award last year. Congratulations to both of them.
PALSD
Joins Marriage Equality Amicus Brief
The PALSD
Board has voted in favor of joining an amicus brief authored by the Asian
American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area in support of same-sex
marriage (California Supreme Court Case No. S147999), which can be viewed here. The other API organizations that joined in the brief as of Sept. 21
are:
API Equality
API Equality – LA
API Equality – SF
API Legal Outreach
Asian American Bar Association of Silicon Valley
Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area
Asian American Institute
Asian American Justice Center
Asian American Psychological Association
Asian American Queer Women Activists
Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Asian and Pacific Islander Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (API
PFLAG)
Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice
Asian Law Alliance
Asian Law Caucus
Asian/Pacific Bar of California
Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team
Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
Asian Pacific Americans for Progress-Los Angeles
Asian Pacific Islander Family Pride
Asian Pacific Islander Pride Council
Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
Asian Pacific Women's Center
CAA | Chinese for Affirmative Action
Center for the Pacific Asian Family
Chinese Progressive Association
Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty
Filipinos for Affirmative Action
Gay Asian Pacific Alliance
Gay Asian Pacific Support Network
Institute for Leadership Development and Study of Pacific Asian North
American Religion (PANA Institute)
Japanese American Bar Association of Greater Los Angeles
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
Khmer Girls in Action
Korean American Bar Association of Southern California
Korean Community Center of the East Bay
Korean Resource Center
Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance
My Sister's House
National Asian Pacific American Law Student Association
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC)
Pan Asian Lawyers of San Diego
Satrang
South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
South Asian Bar Association of Northern California
South Asian Network
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
