Participant Qualifications

The program is designed for developing mid-career Asian American Pacific Islander attorney leadership skills. Enrollment in the program is limited to 24 participants, with an even balance between IHC and law firm attorneys. All NAPABA members are encouraged to apply, although the selection committee will focus on the following criteria this year:

• Law firm candidates: this year’s program will prefer candidates with between six and 10 years of experience
  
• In-house candidates: preference for a minimum of three to four years of IHC experience, with six to 10 years of overall practice experience

All applicants must be NAPABA members. For more information about how to join please, visit the membership page.

Costs and Fees

NAPABA will provide the trainers, program materials, venue, and in-program meals. If accepted, attendees will be expected to commit a program fee and provide their own travel and accommodations, if required.

Program fees:

• Law firm candidates: $400
• In-house candidates: $250 

Facilitators

Rudhir Krishtel

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Rudhir Krishtel is a certified Co-Active Coach and facilitator focusing on workplace wellness and intensity. Many lawyers struggle with stress and lack of purpose in their practice. As a former lawyer, Rudhir coaches clients and hosts workshops to identify the issues that hold lawyers back from advancing in their career with clarity and fulfillment.

Prior to becoming an executive coach and consultant, Rudhir practiced law for 15 years as a federal clerk, patent litigation partner at Fish & Richardson, and then as senior patent counsel at Apple.

His lawyer days led him to train as a teacher for yoga (Baptiste Institute) and mindfulness meditation (Warrior One), and as a Professional Certified Coach (Coaches Training Institute & International Coaching Federation), to serve as much-needed support for the legal community. 

Charles H. Jung

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Charles Jung is a trial lawyer who loves practicing law. His practice emphasizes intelligently aggressive trial advocacy, business litigation, trade secrets, class actions, and employment/wage & hour litigation. He has substantial experience in trade secrets/employee mobility litigation and in class action litigation. He is a frequent commentator in the legal press on these topics.

He is active in the Asian American Pacific Islander legal community, including serving as President of the California Asian Pacific American Bar Association, serving in multiple roles throughout and involvement in NAPABA, and as one of the founders and facilitators of the current Leadership Advancement Program.

 

 

Dawn Yamane Hewett

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Dawn Yamane Hewett is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart and Sullivan, where she assists clients with transnational disputes and government investigations. She specializes in investment treaty arbitration, where she represents investors and sovereign states in multi-million and multi-billion dollar foreign investment disputes. She also assists companies of all sizes with inquiries and investigations by US government agencies, including the Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Department of Commerce. Dawn speaks Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and English, and her cases often require the use of one or more of her languages.

Before Quinn Emanuel, Dawn was Deputy General Counsel for Strategic Initiatives at the US Department of Commerce, practiced at another global law firm, and was a law clerk on the Ninth Circuit. Prior to her legal career, she worked at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone and an international human rights NGO in Ireland, and conducted field research in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mexico, Brazil, Cambodia, and Japan. Dawn holds advanced degrees from Yale Law School, Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs, and Trinity College Dublin, and two bachelor degrees from the University of Washington.

Dawn is active in the legal community, having served as a President of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Greater Washington, DC Region and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. She also coaches her daughter’s elementary school running team through the Girls on the Run program, which teaches empowerment and self-confidence for young girls.

  

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Past Speakers

• Ivan Fong, General Counsel, 3M
• Vaishali Udupa, Assistant General Counsel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Maria Ma, Assistant General Counsel, Gap
• Michelle Park Chiu, Partner, Morgan Lewis

 

 

Schedule

Application

The application for the 2023 cohort will open in February 2023. 

 

Alumni

Class of 2021

• Alina Lee 
• Anand Das 
• Blake Gansborg 
• Christine Foo
• Fatima Khan 
• James Chang 
• Jayna Rust 
• Jeanette Quick
• Jennifer Chang 
• Ji Hae Kim 
• Jimmy Chong 
• Kenjiro LeCroix 
• Marylauren Ilagan 
• Monica Min 
• Nancy Chawla 
• R. Chinny Law
• Rebecca Sha 
• Samantha Bird 
• Sandhya Kogge 
• Stephanie Ng
• Steven Ngo 
• Sylvia Chiu 
• Tina Prabhakar 
• Will Kim

Class of 2020

• Mark Calaguas 
• David Chee
• Alison Chen
• Jeannine Choi
• Brenda Dang
• Vivian Dinh
• Susan Do
• Minh Nguyen Hoang
• Candice Hyon
• Wendy Kam
• Elisa Kim
• January Kim
• Natalie Lashinsky
• Yumi Lawlor
• Tracy Leong
• Angela Makabali
• Harsh Parikh
• Richard Ramones
• Debodhonyaa Sengupta
• Thaila Sundaresan
• Yuxi Tian
• Mian Wang
• David Yang
• Yuanyou (Sunny) Yang

Class of 2019

• Onchantho Am
• Shinhong Byun
• Jacob Chen
• Vanessa Chen
• Caroline Chien 
• Maytak Chin
• Sandy Chiu
• Isabel Chon
• Pierce Han
• Dong Hong 
• Won Hur
• Derek Ishikawa
• Peter Kang
• Malika Kanodia
• Christine Kao
• Aamir Kazi
• Bernice Lee
• Kat Li
• Julie Oh Kenworthy
• Gopi Panchapakesan 
• Paul Rivera
• Shannon Shin
• Cheryl Tao
• Randall Yee

Class of 2018

• Angel Garrett
• Connie Ng
• Daniel Huynh
• Dawn Yamane Hewett 
• Deanna Kwong
• Grace Jamgochian
• Jovita Wang
• Kelly Matayoshi
• KimAnh Tran
• Kristy Marino
• Laurie Rose Lubiano
• Leslie Yuan
• Linna Hsii
• Maximilian Jo
• Ming Zhu
• Naeun Rim
• Neal Jagtap
• Purnima Boominathan
• Richard Juang -
• Sam You
• Sandy Fu
• Sharlene Lee
• Tae Phillips
• Vivian Kim

Introducing the 2022-23 Leadership Advancement Program Fellows

Congratulations to the 24 attorneys who were selected as fellows for NAPABA’s 2022-23 Leadership Advancement Program (LAP). During the year-long experiential program fellows will cultivate and transform leadership styles, ground career visions, and foster genuine relationships with each other. Join us in welcoming this new cohort of rising attorneys!

Top Row (Listed Left to Right)

• Punam Alam | Associate | Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.
• Susan Akina | Senior Associate | Fragomen, Del Ray, Bersen & Loewy LLP
• Amna Arshad | Special Counsel | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
• Erica Barrow | Litigation Associate | Baker Hostetler
• Amy Chapple | Counsel | AbbVie
• Penny Chen | Associate | K&L Gates LLP
• Chuan (CiCi) Cheng | Partner | Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell
• Amy Hsu | Corporate Counsel | Google LLC
• Cristina Hwang | Associate General Counsel | Hammi Bank 

Middle Row (Listed Left to Right)

• Colin Kawaguchi | Attorney | Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth & Wynner, PC
• Lilia Kim | Senior Regulatory Counsel | LendingClub
• Raymond Kim | Assistant General Counsel | Wintrust Life Insurance
• Tina Lam | Associate | Ogletree Deakins
• Arnold Lee | Assistant City Attorney | Pasadena City Attorney's Office
• Susanna Lee | Corporate Counsel | Salesforce
• Jonathan Li | Assistant General Counsel | New York City Department of Correction
• Justin Moore | Assistant Counsel | TKC Holdings, Inc. 
• Allison Ng | Shareholder | Greenberg Trauig
  

Bottom Row (Listed Left to Right)

• Kathy Nguyen | Associate | Covington & Burling LLP
• Hana Oh | Counsel | O'Melveny & Myers LLP
• Smita Rajmohan | Senior Counsel | Autodesk
• Catherine Reeves | Attorney | Metzger Wickersham Knauss & Erb
• Connie Tse | Counsel | American Express
• Christine Yoo | Senior Corporate Counsel | Amazon