Raj Chatterjee

Raj Chatterjee is a litigation partner in Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office. He has tried civil and criminal matters and has particular expertise in complex business litigation, criminal defense, arbitration, and health care.

Mr. Chatterjee has represented clients in state and federal courts and in a variety of arbitral forums. His cases have involved a wide spectrum of issues, including complex contractual issues, air pollution laws, the Consumer Legal Remedies Act, unfair competition, fraud, trade secrets, fiduciary obligations, defamation, state and federal criminal laws, and patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. He has extensive experience representing hospitals and health care providers in complex contractual disputes in the healthcare industry and has assisted clients with internal criminal investigations.

In January 2007, Mr. Chatterjee was selected by the Daily Journal as one of the “20 To Watch Under 40” lawyers in the State of California.

From 2005-2007, Mr. Chatterjee was a commissioner with the State Bar of California Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation and is a past President of the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors for the Asian Law Caucus and a member of the Board of Trustees for the National South Asian Bar Association Foundation. He participates in various civic groups and has made numerous presentations on litigation-related topics.

Mr. Chatterjee obtained his B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1991, graduating with Highest Honors. He obtained his J.D., magna cum laude, from Hastings College of the Law in 1994, where he received the Order of the Coif and was elected to the Thurston Society. After his graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Andrew Hauk, United States District Court, Central District of California.

Edwin Eng  (Treasurer)

Edwin Eng serves as the Treasurer of Asian Law Caucus’ Board of Directors.  He is the Vice President of Cain Brothers & Company LLC, an investment banking firm specializing in the medical services industry.  Before joining Cain Brothers, Mr. Eng served as Assistant Vice President for Ziegler Securities in the Senior Living Finance Group, where he analyzed skilled nursing facilities and retirement communities.  Mr. Eng also was a consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service, where he examined the financial and informational systems in community health centers in the western United States. His experience working 20 years in the health care industry makes him an invaluable asset to the Board.

Mr. Eng earned his B.A. from Cornell University and an M.A. in Public and Private Management from Yale University.

Marjorie Fujiki (Vice Chair)

Marjorie Fujiki has extensive experience in the grantmaking, advocacy and legal fields in both her professional role and as a board member of many community agencies.

As Interim Director of Grants at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, she was responsible for developing a portfolio in support of youth development and early childhood development programs. The foundation is currently re-strategizing its grantmaking around support for children with special health care needs. As Senior Program Officer at the Peninsula Community Foundation, her focus was on school reform, college access and youth development programs, and community building and immigrant integration. In New York, she was the founding executive director of the Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy.

Ms. Fujiki’s legal experience includes Deputy Bureau Chief of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Civil Rights Bureau; staff attorney for Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco; and public defender for the Legal Aid Society in Bronx, New York.

Marjorie received her B.A.from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and was admitted to the bar in both New York and California.

Laura L. Ho

Laura L. Ho is a Partner at Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian.  She represents employees in the areas of race and gender employment discrimination, California and federal wage and hour law, and disability rights.  Ms. Ho also has served as amicus curiae in support of California employees in the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.  She also volunteers through the Asian Law Caucus to give presentations on California and federal wage and hour laws to low-income Asian Pacific American communities.  Ms. Ho has served as a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Coughenour, Chief Judge of the Federal District Court of the Western District of Washington.  She was a Staff Attorney for the ACLU Foundation National Immigrants’ Rights Project and was a NAPIL fellow Staff Attorney for ALC from 1994-1996, advocating for low-wage immigrant workers.

Ms. Ho earned her B.A. from the University of Washington and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Kiran Jain

Kiran Jain is Deputy City Attorney of land use and development in Oakland’s City Attorney’s Office, primarily practicing land use and environmental law. Previously, she was an associate at Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco and Walnut Creek, where she focused on finance, environmental, land use and real estate law. She was also a member of the firm’s pro bono and diversity committees.

During the 2004 presidential election, Kiran assisted the Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights Under Law in representing Ohio voters pro hac vice in a successful voting rights lawsuit against Ohio’s Secretary of State regarding illegal absentee voting practices.

In 2005 and 2006, she served as staff to the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act that conducted regional hearings throughout the nation to assess continued voter discrimination, which culminated into a congressional report, entitled “Protecting Minority Voters: The Voting Rights Act at Work, 1982-2005″.

Kiran serves on the Legal Advisory Board of Kiva.org, a peer-to-peer microlending organization, which she has provided counsel to before its inception in 2005. She is a director and officer of the Barristers Club of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Kiran received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, and an A.B. from Barnard College.

Keith Kamisugi

Keith Kamisugi is the director of communications at the Equal Justice Society. He was previously a regional spokesman for Verizon Communications, an account manager for technology PR agency Niehaus Ryan Wong and serviced a diverse portfolio of companies as an independent consultant. He also served on the executive staffs of Hawai’i Governors John Waihee and Benjamin Cayetano.

He is a director on the boards of Chinese for Affirmative Action, San Francisco Japantown Foundation, APA for Progress and the Asian Law Caucus; and on the Netroots Nation advisory board.  He also runs hapihour.org.

Keith was previously president of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce, organizers of the Cherry Blossom Festival in Hawaii. He founded the Young Business Roundtable, served as chairman of the Young Democrats of Hawai’i and was a member of Hawai’i's delegation to the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

He also served on the steering committee of the Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) for Obama Leadership Council and the boards of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California, Asian American Theater Company, Hawai’i Chamber of Commerce of Northern California, American Marketing Association of Honolulu, Japanese American Citizens League of Honolulu and on the Bishop Museum Advisory Council.

Khurshid Khoja

Karen Korematsu-Haigh (Secretary)

Karen Korematsu-Haigh is the founder of the Fred Korematsu Civil Rights Fund, sponsored by ALC.  She is the daughter of Fred Korematsu, who challenged the internment orders during WWII.  Mrs. Korematsu-Haigh shares her father’s passion for social justice and continues to help support the new Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education at the Asian Law Caucus in development and outreach.

William Kwong

William Kwong is a Deputy Attorney General at the District Attorney’s Office within the California Department of Justice.  Formerly, he was a Partner at Minami Tamaki LLP where his practice was primarily focused on personal injury, employment law and civil litigation.  Mr. Kwong also finds time to volunteer at the Workers’ Rights Clinic of Employment Law Center where his makes use of his fluent Cantonese language ability.

Mr. Kwong received his B.A. Degree at the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from George Washington University’s National Law Center.  He is admitted to the California Bar and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  Since 2006, Mr. Kwong also has been a member of the California State Bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation.  In addition to serving as a Board member for the Asian Law Caucus, Mr. Kwong sits on the board for the San Mateo Chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans, and is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, Asian American Bar Association and the Consumer Attorneys of California.

Eumi Lee

Eumi Lee is a clinical attorney and adjunct assistant clinical professor at the Hastings College of the Law.  She teaches low-income representation and trial skills in the Individual Representation Clinic.  Before teaching at Hastings, Ms. Lee practiced at Keker & Van Nest LLP and Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, focusing on criminal defense and commercial litigation.  She also served as a Law Clerk to Judge Warren J. Ferguson, Judge Jerome Turner and the Office of Independent Counsel Carol Elder Bruce.  Throughout her career, Ms. Lee has engaged in pro bono work involving issues of gender and asylum and civil rights.  She also served as Co-Chair of ALC’s Annual Event Committee for 2004 to 2006.

Ms. Lee received her B.A. at Pomona College and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a senior writing fellow, a founding member of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and the founder of the Sexual Assault Policy Committee.

Larry Lowe (Chair)

Larry Lowe serves as a Senior Counsel of Apple Computer, Inc, providing legal support to the company’s hardware development and manufacturing groups.  During his 10 years with the company, Mr. Lowe was previously the head of Apple’s Technology Law Group and its Director of Litigation.  Mr. Lowe has been active in many Asian American and minority bar associations.  He served for 10 years as the founding Chairperson of the Asian Pacific Fund and is currently the Secretary of the Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Fund, a private foundation in memory of his grandfather.

Mr. Lowe received his B.A. from UC Berkeley and his J.D. from UC Hastings College of Law.

Aiko Pandorf

Aiko Pandorf serves as Development Director for the California Bar Foundation. In 2006, she joined the Foundation staff with a broad range of experience in fundraising, marketing, and communications. Most recently, Pandorf spent five years providing specialized services focusing on strategic planning and development for national and local organizations with missions focused on the media, public interest law, the environment, immigration, and human rights. She also brings more than five years of experience in development and NGO consulting in sub-Saharan Africa on projects including micro-enterprise development, teacher training, and women’s economic self-sufficiency.

Previously, Pandorf served as the Development Director of the Asian Law Caucus and the Marketing Development Director of the former Women’s Philharmonic. She has served on the board of the Women’s Foundation and is a founding board member of the Asian Women’s Shelter.

Pandorf graduated cum laude from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.A. degree in Social Thought and Political Economics.

Hina Shah

Hina Shah is currently an associate professor of law and clinical staff attorney at San Francisco’s Golden Gate University. Ms. Shah has over 10 years of experience advocating on employment and labor issues affecting unionized and low-wage immigrant workers. She served as the director of the Labor/Employment Project at the Asian Law Caucus where she focused on individual and impact litigation involving low wage workers.  Her publications include:  With Srikantiah, Jayashri, Stories from California, Human Trafficking Handbook, Dr. Sutapa Basu, ed., (Pending publication, 2009), Ethnic and Religious Discrimination, American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee (2002), How Anna Won Her Wages: How to File Wage Claims & Know Your Workplace Rights, Multi-lingual Educational Materials for Low-wage Workers, Asian Law Caucus (2001).

Education:
* BSW, University of Texas at Austin
* JD, Hastings College of the Law, University of California

Quyen Ta

Quyen Ta graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA in 1999 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in Scandinavian literature. Prior to law school, Quyen was a community organizer at the Asian Law Caucus. She graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley in May 2003, where she was on the Admissions Committee, served as the community service chair for the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, and was the symposium editor for the Asian Law Journal. She was awarded the Vietnamese American Bar Association community service award upon graduation.

Prior to joining Keker & Van Nest in 2006, she served as policy counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families under the auspices of the Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program. At the National Partnership, Quyen focused on workplace fairness issues affecting women and their families and judicial nominations. Following her fellowship, Quyen clerked for the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton of the United States District Court, Eastern District of California. Quyen is active in bar and community activities. She is a board member of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California, serves on the content committee for the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys, and chairs the Asian Law Caucus’ Annual Event Committee.

Quyen’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation, and her practice has included securities, patent infringement, and legal malpractice disputes.

Education:
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
University of California at Los Angeles, 1999

Cecillia Wang

Cecillia Wang is the Managing Attorney of the California office of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Her practice centers on the impact of U.S. national security policies on immigrants, and the intersection of criminal defense and immigration law.

Cecillia first worked at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project from 1997 to 1998, and rejoined the Project in 2004. Before rejoining the ACLU, Cecillia was a trial attorney with the federal public defender’s office in the Southern District of New York, and worked at the San Francisco law firm of Keker & Van Nest on both white-collar criminal cases and civil litigation. Cecillia has served on the Criminal Justice Act indigent defense panel for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Cecillia was a law clerk to Judge William Norris of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and to Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States. While clerking for Justice Blackmun, she also served as a full-time law clerk in Justice Stephen Breyer’s chambers. Cecillia is a 1995 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for The Yale Law Journal.