APABA-PA’s 35th Anniversary Banquet

October 4, 2019

Sheraton Philadelphia University City Hotel
3549 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

We are thrilled to present

Cecillia Wang

Deputy Legal Director, ACLU

as the APABA-PA 35th Anniversary Banquet’s Keynote Speaker! 

We Will be Presenting Our Attorney of the Year Award To Glenn F. Hing

and Our 2019 Marutani Fellowship scholars:

Nicholas Chan
&
Lisa Riley

The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania (“APABA-PA”) is proud to announce that it will celebrate its 35th year as an organization at its Annual Banquet on Friday, October 4, 2019, at the Sheraton University City Hotel, 3549 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The cocktail reception will commence at 6:00 p.m., and dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m., emceed by  the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Anita Oh, formerly at CBS 3. We will also be hosting an In-House Counsel Reception in conjunction with our 35th year anniversary banquet, featuring an off-site cocktail reception from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

This year, our keynote speaker will be Cecillia Wang. Ms. Wang is the Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) and directs the Center for Democracy, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on immigrants’ rights, voting rights, national security, human rights, and speech, privacy and technology. Ms. Wang is the past director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and is an passionate advocate for immigrants’ rights, speaking out and successfully defending against anti-immigration laws, racial profiling, and other unlawful police practices related to immigration enforcement. She has previously taught immigration law courses as an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. Ms. Wang has been honored by numerous community and legal organizations including Vanderbilt Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association of Yale Law School, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers’ Guild, California Rural Legal Assistance, Dolores Street Legal Services, Chinese for Affirmative Action, and the Asian American Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a frequent commentator on topics relating to immigrants’ rights through media outlets including National Public Radio, the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, and many others.

APABA-PA will also be presenting its 2019 Attorney of the Year Award at our Annual Banquet. This recognition is bestowed on a member who has demonstrated professional excellence in practice; is held in high regard by clients and peers; has shown leadership within APABA-PA and other professional associations; and has demonstrated dedication to the APA community.

Our Annual Banquet supports APABA-PA’s William M. Marutani Fellowship, established in 2003 to honor Judge Marutani’s legacy as a civil rights advocate, jurist, and pioneer in the law. Each year a first-year law student who exhibits the same commitment to social justice as Judge Marutani is selected to receive this financial award in support of summer employment with a public interest organization or government agency. A significant portion of the proceeds from the Annual Banquet will go towards funding the Marutani Fellowship. The 2019 Marutani Fellows will be presented at the Banquet.

We are happy to announce Stradley Ronon as our 35th Annual Banquet Jade Sponsor!

As Jade Sponsor, Stradley Ronon is also the Title Sponsor for the Annual Banquet Cocktail Hour.

We are happy to announce Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP as our 35th Annual Banquet Pearl Sponsor!

As Pearl Sponsor, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP is also the Title Sponsor of the pre-Banquet In-House Counsel Reception at POD.

Thanks to our 35th Anniversary Pin Sponsor John Chou and Teresa Wallace!

We are happy announce the following Gold Sponsors!

We are happy to announce our Silver Sponsors!

Exeter Property Group

Fox Rothschild

Hing Cheng P.C.

Pepper Hamilton LLP

We are happy to announce our Bronze Sponsors!

Ballard Spahr

Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association

White and Williams

We are happy to announce our Table Sponsors!

Ahmad Zaffarese LLC

Blank Rome

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Dechert

Duane Morris

Lamb McErlane PC

Penn State Law

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

Judge Stella Tsai

We hope to see you at the Banquet!

Amanda W. Thai

Vice President, APABA-PA
Chair, Annual Banquet Committee