This year, our 17th Annual Convention will be held in Chicago, Illinois, from Thursday, October 20, 2005, through Sunday, October 23, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago and hosted by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area. The centralized location of the Convention in Chicago and the outstanding Convention program will draw APAs from all parts of the country. This year, we will again feature prominent speakers from government and private sectors of the law.

Our rapidly growing membership and great success with previous conventions make us confident of easily drawing 700 or more attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students from across the nation, and from all practice areas and backgrounds. The Convention culminates in the gala banquet dinner, where we expect approximately 1000 attendees. Past Convention keynote speakers for the gala banquet dinner have included then-Vice President Al Gore, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and then-Attorney General Janet Reno. This year, we will again feature prominent speakers from government and private sectors of the law.

As always, this year’s Convention will help members develop essential skills and will provide attendees with important, updated information affecting many practice areas. NAPABA is coordinating its Convention with the National Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (NAPALSA). By having a joint Convention, NAPABA assists the next generation of Asian Pacific American lawyers develop the skills and contacts necessary to succeed and thrive.

See you in Chicago!
Amy Lin Meyerson
Convention Chair & NAPABA President-Elect

Registration has closed, but it is still not too late to attend. On-site registration available October 20 and 21.

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Contact the Hyatt for hotel room reservations today by calling 888-421-1442.

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Calling all NAPABA Kids!
Bring the entire family to Chicago for the NAPABA 17th Annual Convention!

Are you planning on bringing your children to the Convention? If so, please let us know the number of kids and their ages. We would like to plan some age appropriate activities for the kids while NAPABA members are attending CLE programs and meetings. You may call 202.775.9555 or email the information to Kathy Williams at administrator@napaba.org.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES STILL AVAILABLE!

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Installation Banquet Sponsor Tables may be purchased for $2,000/table of ten.

Annual Convention Highlights
Thursday October 20th
NAPABA/NLF Board Meetings
NAPABA Bar Leadership Institute
Welcome Reception
Leadership Advisory Council Dinner
Regional Governors/Affiliate Bar Leadership Dinner
NAPALSA Off-Site Event: Pizza and Pins (bowling, that is)

Friday October 21st
EXPO and Job Fair
NAPALSA Business Meeting (morning sessions)
Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition
CLE Programming
Unveiling of Clarence Lee's Lunar New Year Stamp Series by USPS General Counsel and Executive Vice President Mary Anne Gibbons
Friday Luncheon: featured speaker ~ U.S. Senator Barack Obama (IL)
Trailblazer Awards Program - Chicago Cultural Center
Partners/In-House Counsel Dinner
Civil Rights/Public Sector Dinner
Late Night with Bud

Saturday October 22nd
Women's Leadership Forum Award Program ~ Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan
Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition - Final Round - IL Supreme Court Courthouse
EXPO and Job Fair
CLE Programming
Committee Meetings
Saturday Luncheon: featured speaker ~ U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ilana Rovner (7th Circuit)
Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition Awards Reception
Installation Banquet & President's Party
With Mistress of Ceremonies, Anupy Singla, Anchor/Reporter, CLTV News
and Keynote Speaker, Hon. Ronald S.W. Lew, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Sponsored by Mercedes-Benz USA

Sunday October 23rd
Plenary Breakfast
NAPALSA Board Meeting

Other speakers and program participants include:

• Assistant U.S. Secretary of Labor Victoria Lipnic
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge Ronald S.W. Lew
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Denny Chin
• United States Attorney Central District of California Debra Yang
• Commissioner of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Stuart J. Ishimaru

Premiere

Diamond

Jade
Anheuser-Busch, Inc.
Mercedes-Benz USA
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Platinum
Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione
Dewey Ballantine LLP
Fifth/Third Bank
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Gold
Andrews Kurth LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Baker & McKenzie
BAR/BRI
Bayer HealthCare LLC
Bryan Cave LLP
The Coca-Cola Company
CT Corporation
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary
Fannie Mae
Foley & Lardner LLP
General Motors Corporation
Hewitt Associates LLC
Jones Day
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Reed Smith LLP
Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP
State Farm Insurance
Travelocity.com
United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP

Silver
Allstate Insurance Company
Alston & Bird LLPB
Aon Corporation
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Baron & Budd, P.C.
Cingular Wireless
Cooley Godward LLP
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Eimer Stahl Klevorn & Solberg LLP
Fenwick & West LLP
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
First American Title Insurance Company
Ford Motor Company
Freeborn & Peters LLP
Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Heller Ehrman LLP
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
IKON Office Solutions, Inc.
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
Lord, Bissell & Brook LLP
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
Microsoft Corporation
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
New York Life Investment Management LLC
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Peck, Bloom, Austriaco & Mitchell, LLC
Perkins Coie LLP
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Schiff Hardin LLP
Sempra Energy
Thompson & Knight LLP
Tyco International, Ltd.

Look for the Exhibit tables of our Premiere, Diamond, Jade and Platinum sponsors for more information about their services and products.

Exhibitors/Job Fair Only
American Bar Association
Holland & Hart LLP
Hudson Legal
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
United States Central Intelligence Agency
United States Department of Justice
United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Postal Service
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
United States Social Security Administration

Advertisers Only
Marriott International, Inc.
SBC Communications, Inc.
American Family Insurance
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
BP P.L.C.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Downey Brand LLP
AGL Resources
King & Spalding LLP Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Sachnoff & Weaver
Lane Alton & Horst, LLC
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP
National Arbitration Forum
Georgia APABA
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Freeman, Freeman & Salzman, P.C.
Jenner & Block LLP
Kirkland & Ellis
AT&T Margaret Wong & Assoc. Co., LPA
Illinois Real Estate Lawyers Association
Chicago Bar Association
Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd.
McGuireWoods LLP
Starbucks Corporation
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Esquire Services
ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.
Cheng, Cho & Yee, PC
Ungaretti & Harris LLP
Friends
Chicago Title Insurance Company Lowis & Gellen LLP McDonald’s TrialGraphix

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