Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento

Please join ABAS members, friends, and law students for a bowling mixer on Saturday, February 11, 2012, from 10:30-12:30 at AMF Land Park Lanes, 5850 Freeport Boulevard. The event is free for members and $10 for non-members. Please RSVP to
Grace Arupo.

The ABAS Law Foundation awards scholarships to law students and very recent law school graduates from local law schools who have demonstrated potential for community service and leadership in the Asian-Pacific Islander community, academic achievement, and financial need. The application deadline is February 24, 2012.

Sacramento-area law students are encouraged to apply for the ABAS Unity Bar Scholarship. The Unity Bar dinner will be held on October 20, 2011, at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento. The deadline to apply for the scholarship is September 23, 2011.

Yesterday, August 31, 2011, the three-member panel of the California Commission on Judicial Appointments unanimously confirmed Professor Goodwin H. Liu’s nomination to the California Supreme Court. He will be sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California today, September 1, 2011, in Sacramento by Governor Jerry Brown.

Professor Liu is a nationally recognized scholar in the areas of education and constitutional law at the University of California Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 2003. He was born in Augusta, Georgia, where his parents were living as doctors recruited from Taiwan to work in underserved areas. He received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and received his law degree from Yale University School of Law. Professor Liu’s interest in public service and the law was sparked when he served as a page in the U.S. House of Representatives, thanks to the sponsorship of the late Congressman Robert Matsui.

ABAS is proud to have supported Professor Liu’s nomination and looks forward to his tenure on the California Supreme Court. ABAS thanks Governor Brown’s for nominating Professor Liu, who is Governor Brown’s first Asian Pacific American state high court nominee.

ABAS members and friends will be making a road trip to the Angel Island Immigration Station, a national historic site in the San Francisco Bay, on July 30. The bus has sold out, but if you’re interested, you can meet up with ABAS on the island. Contact John Yung at jyung@lockelord.com for more information.