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2008 Board of Directors (Hội Đồng Quản Trị) Thuy Nguyen-Leeper is Assistant Corporate Counsel at Expeditors International of Washington, Inc., where she addresses legal and business matters related to commercial transactions, immigration, and employment. She was formerly an associate at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, where her practice was commercial, securities, and antitrust litigation. A 2001 graduate from Seattle University School of Law, Thuy is a member and past Treasurer of the Asian Bar Association of Washington; member of Q-Law; trustee with the King County Bar Young Lawyers Division; and has served as Special Disciplinary Counsel for the Washington State Bar Association. She was also a Fellow in the Washington State Bar Association's Leadership Institute for 2006. Before moving to Seattle in 1996, Thuy was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and raised in Arkansas where she received her bachelor’s degree from Arkansas State University in 1996. This Arkansan also has a very cherished photo with then Governor Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. In her spare time, Thuy spends an embarrassing amount of time addicted to reality television, which she sometimes forces her husband to endure. Thuy and her family left Saigon in 1975, and she made her first journey back to Vietnam in May 2007 as a delegate with the Washington Secretary of State’s Trade Mission.
 Thi Huynh is a solo practitioner based out of Everett (it's not that far from Seattle). His practice focuses mostly on residential real estate matters. See www.one-law.net for more info. Thi obtained his degrees in Southeast Asian Studies and Political Science at the University of Washington before attending law school at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. Thi is a Fellow in the Washington State Bar Association's Leadership Institute for 2008.
 Lam Nguyen-Bull is a litigator at Garvey Schubert Barer. Her practice ranges from large transborder matters to individual estate contests. Lam was born and raised in Missoula, Montana. Her parents inflicted upon her the cruel and unusual punishment of sending her to elementary school without a firm grasp of the English language. However, they did teach her to sing French nursery rhymes and play the piano. Despite this difficult and inauspicious start, Lam managed to make her way to Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in East Asian Studies. After college, she worked in Boston and all over Western Europe as a business strategy consultant with a focus in telecommunications and emerging technology. Her international experience imbued her with an exquisite sensitivity to the challenges of cross-border and cross-cultural work. After graduating from the Yale Law School in 2003, Lam clerked for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, a U.S. District Judge in Seattle. Now, as a litigator, Lam is turning her attention to Asia, particularly Vietnam and China, and hopes to revive the international side of her professional life. Lam steals time from her deeply engrossing work at Garvey Schubert Barer to read cookbooks, popular science books, and essays written by medical doctors. She also enjoys knitting and aspires to organize her photo albums.
.JPG) Catherine Le Vuong is an associate at Helsell Fetterman LLP in its business and real estate transaction group. Catherine was a VABAW student liaison in 2004 and has now joined as a board member. Catherine is a graduate of the Seattle University School of Law and was a note and comment editor on the Law Review, member of the Moot Court Board, and member of the Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association. Prior to law school, Catherine worked as an associate in a Seattle-based investment bank and was involved several mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and equity financing transactions. In her spare time, Catherine likes to start but never finish arts and craft projects, watch bad reality TV shows, play Dr. Mario on her Super Nintendo, and attempt to snowboard.
 Peter Chu's practice focuses on patents, trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property. His patent practice primarily focuses on software, bioinformatics, financial methods, and related technology. He also helps clients with resolution of intellectual property disputes through licensing and litigation. Peter has achieved extensive technical and legal experience working as a software engineer; clerking for the patent group at Microsoft; working as a patent examiner; and practicing as a patent attorney for both global law firms and intellectual property boutiques. Peter earned a B.S.E.E., magna cum laude, from the University of Portland, and his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law. He is active in the Northwest Entrepreneur Network. Peter also specializes in complex mathematical-based patent applications in π-calculus for computing processes in communication systems, operating systems, microprocessors, and system biology. Peter and his family left Saigon in 1978, and he made his first journey back to Vietnam in May 2007 as a delegate with the Washington Secretary of State’s Trade Mission. After the Mission, Peter was invited to Dallas, Texas, to lecture Vietnamese government officials regarding U.S. laws connected with software.
Ty Ho is the founder of Ho & Associates, where he focuses on contract litigation, family law, and immigration law. Ty received his J.D., cum laude from Seattle University School of Law in 2004. This year, Ty’s focus with VABAW will be (1) learning more about VABAW roles and involvements in the greater legal community and (2) enhancing VABAW’s presence in the Vietnamese community. Ty hopes that these experiences will make him a better asset for the organization in the upcoming years. In his spare time, Ty enjoys traveling, camping, cooking, and playing volleyball.
Tien Huu Nguyen is a solo practitioner in Lynnwood, WA. He was born in Hue, Vietnam and after surviving the dangerous currents of the South China Sea he made his home in the Pacific Northwest. He made a name for himself as a loquacious and pedantic gentleman at Mountlake Terrace High School. Then he went to, the “Yale of the West” Washington State University where he graduated from the Honors College with a degree in History, all kinds, but specifically the good kinds of History. After he was done with academia he decided to keep his ear to the streets and pursue something that actually mattered, aka law. So he entered the University of San Francisco School of Law where he graduated. He has been a distinguished member of the California bar since 2005, and recently became a member of the Washington State Bar.
 Kim Tran is a shareholder with the law firm Stafford Frey Cooper where she focuses her practice on employment law. She advises businesses and individuals on employment-law related matters and conducts employment law trainings on topics including sexual harassment. She has recovered substantial awards and results for clients in wage, discrimination, and harassment cases. Kim has taken cases to verdict in both federal and state court and has appeared before state and federal appellate courts. As 2006 President of the Asian Bar Association of Washington (ABAW), Kim co-chaired Washington’s first statewide diversity conference with other minority bar associations, Getting Ahead and Giving Back: Diversity in Washington’s Legal Community. She received ABAW’s 2004 Community Service Award for her work as the International District Legal Clinic Coordinator where she has volunteered since 2000. The ID Legal Clinic provides pro bono services. Kim served as a 2005 fellow with the Washington State Bar Association (WSBA) Leadership Institute, has served on the WSBA Pro Bono Legal Aid Committee and as special disciplinary counsel for the WSBA. Kim serves on the Seattle Women’s Commission, is a fellow with the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the William L. Dwyer Inn of Court. Since 2000, Kim has volunteered as a naturalization teacher for Asian Counseling Referral Service (ACRS), the largest social service agency serving the Asian American population in the State of Washington. She served on the ACRS Board of Directors in 2006 and serves as its President since 2007. Washington Law & Politics -magazine selected Kim as one of Washington’s “Rising Stars” in 2002-2007. Prior to joining Stafford Frey Cooper, Kim clerked at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington DC. Kim received her JD from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, a BA in English and Political Science from Tufts University and a Certificate in Human Resources from the University of Washington. She lives in Rainier Beach with her husband and dog.
 Alice Wong (formerly Alice Truong) is Corporate Counsel at Nordstrom, a major retailer based in the Pacific Northwest. Prior to Nordstrom, Alice was a principal at Cairncross & Hempelmann, P.S, where her practice addressed all aspects of real estate transactional law. She advised property owners, developers and businesses on a range of real estate legal matters, including: purchases and sales; title and survey review and analysis; CC&Rs, easements and licenses; condominium development and conversion; and LLC formation issues. In addition, Alice ’s hospitality practice at Cairncross involved helping clients negotiate management agreements for hotels and restaurants across the nation, on behalf of both owners and operators. Alice is the co-founder of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Washington, and served as its President in 2006. She is currently on the VABAW Board for a 2008-2009 term. She is currently serving as the Northwest Regional Governor for the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. Alice was also President of the Asian Bar Association of Washington in 2007. Alice graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2001. In her spare time, Alice loves fancy race cars, doting time to her dog Edgar, and pulling creatures from the sea, like salmon and crab.
 Phuong Lam Dao is the VABAW Seattle University (SU) School of Law Student Liaison. Phuong recently finished her first year at the SU School of Law while holding the position of Corporate Integrity Program Manager at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Her healthcare experience include directing the Research Institute at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, managing Research Development and Operations for the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and directing Community Site and Work Site Programs for the American Heart Association of Hawaii.
Phuong is active in the Puget Sound Compliance Officers Forum and the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers Compliance Committee. She is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the Healthcare Compliance Association, and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics. Phuong studied Biochemisty at Smith College and Public Health at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. She is certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Research Administration (CRA), and Institutional Review Board Administration (CIP).
Phuong left Vietnam in 1984 and made her first journey back to the country in November 2005 as a volunteer on a humanitarian medical mission with Project Vietnam. She enjoys reading poetry, baking, traveling, and discovering the Pacific Northwest  George Radics is the VABAW University of Washington School of Law Student Liaison. George recently finished his first year at the University of Washington School of Law and is currently a summer associate at Davis Wright and Tremaine. Originally from Los Angles, he graduated with his first degree in Sociology and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. While at UCLA, George studied in Vietnam, the Philippines, Russia and spent one semester interning at the Center for Strategic International Studies in Washington DC. For the past five years George worked on a PhD in Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Prior to law school, he worked throughout Southeast Asia on a variety of issues including US militarization, transnational movements of migrants across borders and building efficient infrastructures necessary for business in the region. In his spare time he enjoys netflix, cooking and reading.
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