The APALRC would like to extend its gratitude to all the participants, staff, and sponsors who helped with the 15th anniversary celebration!

We would like to give special thanks to our speakers, Seema Nanda, Youngsup Lee, and Delegate Susan Lee. We would also like to thank Chris Chan of APABA-DC and Alex Schank of Georgetown APALSA, for speaking on behalf of their respective organizations, both of which have provided invaluable, continuous support for the APALRC from the very beginning.

The APALRC would like to recognize all of its sponsors for its 15th anniversary event:

EVENT SPONSORS

Gold level sponsor:
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Silver level sponsors:
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC
Crowell & Moring LLP
Eng Garcia Properties, LLC
Latham & Watkins LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Bronze level sponsors:
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
King & Spalding LLP

Patron sponsors:
Kil Huh & Jenny Yang

Supporter sponsors:
Mytrang Nguyen
Alex Oh

Friend sponsors:
David Hsu
Taron Murakami & Jarrett Jacinto

Host sponsors:
Alston & Bird LLP
Chris Chan, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Greater Washington, D.C.

HOST COMMITTEE
Carlos & Lucinda Eng Garcia
Zenobia T. Lai
Ronald H. Lee
Tony Lin & Vanessa Howell
Curtis P. Lu
Mytrang Nguyen
Patrick Shen
Jenny R. Yang

The APALRC is proud to announce that our keynote speaker this year will be Deputy Special Counsel Seema Nanda, from the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices. Please join us on May 1 at the China Garden Restaurant for our 15th anniversary celebration.

The APALRC is also excited to announce that the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Greater Washington, D.C. is the recipient of the 15th anniversary Access to Justice Award to honor and recognize the 15 plus years of dedicated work that APABA-DC and its membership has provided to create, nurture and support the APALRC.

Date:        Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Time:        6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location:  China Garden Restaurant
                 1100 Wilson Blvd.

Job Announcement
Staff Attorney

The Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC) is hiring a full-time attorney to implement its legal services program in Maryland. Working under the supervision of the Executive Director, the attorney will provide legal assistance to low-income Asian Americans in Maryland in a range of substantive legal issues such as abuse prevention, family, immigration, housing, public assistance, etc. The attorney will work with other members of the legal team to implement the overall legal services program, including client intake, developing partnerships with community groups, community outreach and legal education as well as supervising interns and volunteers.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience in the practice of law, with a demonstrated commitment to public interest law and social justice advocacy; experience in family, immigration, housing practice in a legal services setting highly desirable.
• Experience working with Asian immigrant groups strongly preferred.
• Licensed to practice law in Maryland required. Out-of-State attorneys must be able and available to take next scheduled bar exam following date of employment.
• Fluency in an Asian language, particularly Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese), Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi or Urdu strongly preferred.

Salary and Benefits: The annual starting salary is in the low 40’s, depending on experience, with generous health and fringe benefits.

There are now two additional ways to help support the APALRC, and all they require are shopping and searching online.

iGive is an incredibly user-friendly and simple way to donate to the APALRC. Partnering with over 1,000 online retailers such as Best Buy, Amazon, and Staples, iGive sets aside and designates a percentage of purchases made with these retailers to the charity of your choice. You will not have to spend additional money; the donation will be automatically deducted from the purchase itself. This is a great, cost-free way to make a charitable donation while shopping for the holidays. A list of participating retailers can be found here, and new member retailers are added regularly.

Simply install the iGive application button, and make sure the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center is your designated charity (you'll have to perform a manual search in order to select your designated charity). For more information, please visit igive.com.

The APALRC is proud to announce that it has received its first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) application approval!

This is great news for our client and motivates us as we continue holding weekly legal clinics for DACA. If you are, or if you know someone who is, eligible to apply for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, come to the APALRC clinic. We will help you complete the applications for DACA and work authorization, and we will guide you on compiling the various supporting documents.

The clinics are held every Wednesday, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m., at the APALRC office, located at 1012 14^th Street N.W., Suite 450, Washington, DC 20005.

For more information or to make an appointment, call the helpline at (202) 393-3572, extension 22, or email dreamer@apalrc.org.

Walk-ins welcome.

For over 60 years, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has been helping people achieve their goals of owning their own businesses. Today, the SBA provides numerous resources for existing and potential small business owners, including specialized loan backing, information on how to start a business, and legal implications for the different types of businesses and hiring employees.

The APALRC has compiled information to help those individuals who are planning on starting a business or are currently managing a small business in Washington, D.C. To view our pamphlet, which includes a checklist for potential small business employers, information on loans, and different legal matters to take into consideration, please click here.

For additional information both within D.C. and pertaining to your particular area, please visit www.sba.gov.

Update: Our SBA pamphlet is now also available in:
   - Bengali
   - Chinese
   - Korean