March 2010 Awards and Accolades
APABA-PA Executive Committee Member Djung Tran is recipient of Philadelphia Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division F. Sean Peretta Service Award.
APABA-PA Executive Committee Member and Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Lin is recipient of Philadelphia Coalition for Victim Advocacy Prosecutor Award.
2010 Lunar Banquet Postponed to March 12, 2010
The 2010 Lunar Banquet was rescheduled to March 12, 2010 due to inclement weather on February 26, 2010. It will be at the same place and time (6:00 p.m., Ocean Harbor Restaurant, 1023 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107).
Please RSVP by March 9, 2010. If you wish to purchase tickets via mail, please click here, print out, complete, and return. To register and purchase tickets online, please click here and click on the appropriate registration form.
If you wish to take advantage of members-only pricing, and you have not yet renewed your membership, please click on Dues Renewal.
If you wish to cancel and paid via check, please contact Rahat Babar at rahat.babar@gmail.com to make arrangements for a refund. If you paid via PayPal, you may initiate the refund process by accessing your PayPal account.
2010 NAPABA-Prudential 1L Summer Internship Program
The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is pleased to announce a partnership with Prudential Financial, Inc. (Prudential) to provide a meaningful summer internship opportunity to a highly-motivated first-year law student. Through this partnership, NAPABA will select a student to join the 2010 summer law intern class at Prudential for an 11-week internship at Prudential’s offices in Newark, New Jersey for a stipend of approximately $8,500.
About NAPABA and Prudential
NAPABA is the national association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors and law students and represents the interests of over 40,000 Asian Pacific American attorneys and 63 state and local Asian Pacific American bar association affiliates. NAPABA promotes the professional development of our members and diversity in the legal profession and advocates for the Asian Pacific American community. For more information, please visit www.napaba.org.
Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services. For more information, please visit www.prudential.com.
Internship Responsibilities
The summer intern will have the opportunity to work with attorneys who support the broad reach of the Prudential businesses. The summer intern will also participate in the summer intern training program, which includes programs presented by Prudential attorneys that highlight different areas of the business and the legal department. Each intern will be paired with an attorney who will serve as a mentor during the program and will provide guidance on projects. The summer intern may also have an opportunity to practice interviewing skills, prepare presentations and shadow attorneys on various projects. The summer internship will run between May 24, 2010, and August 6, 2010. The summer intern will be paid a stipend of approximately $8,500, which shall accrue and be paid on an hourly basis.
Qualifications
Each applicant must be a member of NAPABA and must be a law student enrolled at an ABA-accredited law school and have successfully completed the first year of law school and be scheduled for graduation in spring 2012 (full-time students) or spring 2013 (part-time students). The ideal applicant will have financial or business-related experience or interest.
How to Apply
To apply, you must submit a cover letter, resume, a list of three references, and a copy of your transcript to:
Palak Sheth
Program Director
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
1612 K St. NW, Suite 1400
Washington, DC 20006
202-775-9555
psheth@napaba.org
Please write “Prudential Internship” in the subject line of all correspondence. All materials must be received by 5:00 p.m. EST on March 19, 2010. Finalists must be available to participate in phone interviews between March 23-26, 2010. A finalist shall be selected and notified by April 1, 2010.
Prudential and its affiliates are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employers and are committed to diversity in our workforce.
2010 Membership Renewal
If your membership is inactive and you wish to renew your membership, please click on Dues Renewal. If you are a law student, you must still renew your free membership every year. Thank you.
2009 Annual Banquet
Thank you for joining us at our Annual Banquet, which took place at the Ocean Harbor Restaurant, 1023 Race Street, on Friday, November 6, 2009. We would like to thank the following sponsors:
Gold Sponsor
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Silver Sponsor
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Bronze Sponsor
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
White and Williams LLP
In-Kind Sponsor
The Legal Intelligencer
2009 NE Regional Conference Sponsors
Gold Sponsor and Conference Program Host
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Go Game! Host
Duane Morris LLP
Conference Registration Bag Sponsor
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Gold Sponsor
Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Silver Sponsor
Archer & Greiner, P.C.
DLA Piper
Bronze Sponsor
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
The Playbook Supporter
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Comcast Corporation
Cornerstone Legal Consultants
Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner, Weinstock & Dodig
IKON
Nochumson P.C.
