Annual Installation Dinner

Friday, April 17, 2009

Four Seas Restaurant731 Grant Avenue, San Francisco

Program

5:30 Registration and Reception

7:00 Dinner Served and Welcome by our Student EmceesChristine Start, USF School of LawJames Arcellana, USF School of Law

7:15 Welcome RemarksRafael “Ace” Climaco, Outgoing President

7:30 Special PresentationDavid ChiuPresident, San Francisco Board of Supervisors

7:40 Student ScholarshipsIntroduction: Katie Esclamado, HistorianFBANC Scholarship: Joanne VillanuevaRaymond L. Ocampo, Jr. Scholarship: Dyanna Quizon

7:55 Presentation of Jose Rizal Achievement AwardIntroduction: Ernie LlorenteAwardee: Lourdes Tancinco

8:30 Keynote AddressIntroduction: Mark Punzalan, SecretarySpeaker: Angelo Ancheta

9:00 Induction of New OfficersBy the Hon. Ron Quidachay

9:05 Closing RemarksRhean Fajardo, Incoming President

9:15 Music and Dancing

Many thanks to our sponsors: PG&E Corporation; Meyers Nave;Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel, Pedersen & Treppa; FinkelsteinThompson; Hanson Bridgett; The Law Offices of Billy Chan.

22 Battery Street, Suite 401San Francisco, CA 94111

(415) 986-1812

Billy Chan

Still At 22 Battery.Where FBANC Presidents are made.

Corporate - Entertainment - Technology - Intellectual Property

the law offices of

Internal Vice-President - Genevieve Dominguez DongGenevieve graduated from the University of California atDavis with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communicationand Sociology with a Law and Society Emphasis. Shereceived her Juris Doctorate degree and certificate ofspecialization in intellectual property law from GoldenGate University School of Law and was admitted to theCalifornia State Bar in 2006. During law school,Genevieve was an intern with the United States

Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security AdministrationRegional Office in San Francisco and a law clerk for the Law Offices ofHelen Santana, in-house counsel for Liberty Mutual in San Francisco.Genevieve was also active with her law school’s Asian Pacific AmericanLaw Student Association, holding various board positions and conductingreview sessions for first year law students. Genevieve joined the SanFrancisco law firm of Bledsoe, Cathcart, Diestel, Pedersen & Treppa LLPin 2006 after working at Bradley Curley Asiano Barrabee and CrawfordPC in Larkspur, CA. She practices in the areas of premises liability,personal injury, residential landlord-tenant law, real estate transactions,and landslide/earth movement cases. She formerly held the positions ofco-historian and treasurer of the Filipino Bar Association of NorthernCalifornia, and is a member of the Association of Defense Counsel, theBar Association of San Francisco, and the Asian American BarAssociation of the Greater Bay Area. Genevieve, originally from SanJose, currently resides in Oakland with her husband David. She enjoystraveling and performing Phillippine folk dance.

FBANC Officers

President - Rhean FajardoRhean is a Deputy City Attorney with theCity of Daly City. Her practice primarilyconsists of representing the city in variousproceedings and hearings before officialbodies and counseling department heads inestablishing and recommending changes in

policies and procedures to meet legal requirements. Prior to joining theCity Attorney’s office, she operated a solo law practice, and served as In-House Counsel for Lucky Money, Inc., a money transfer servicesbusiness and a member of the Lucky Group of Companies. Rhean is alsothe Operations Director for the Asian American Bar Association of theGreater Bay Area (AABA) and has previously served as FBANC’srepresentative to the Minority Bar Coalition. She earned her B.A. fromthe University of California, Santa Barbara, and her J.D. from theUniversity of San Francisco School of Law.

External Vice-President - Mark PunzalanMark joined Finkelstein Thompson LLP in June 2007 andpractices in the fields of securities litigation, consumerfraud, and antitrust. Mr. Punzalan received his Bachelorof Arts in Political Science in 2001 from the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, and received his Juris Doctorfrom Santa Clara University School of Law in 2006. Mr.Punzalan is currently the Chair of the Intellectual Property

and Internet Law Section for the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Bar-risters Club. He is also a member of the Asian American Bar Association(AABA) of the Greater Bay Area.

Treasurer - David MesaDavid is an associate at Sedgwick, Detert, Moran andArnold LLP. He concentrates his practice in the Prod-ucts Liability group, working on the defense of auto-mobile, medical device and pharmaceutical manufac-turers in multiple state jurisdictions. He participates inall phases of the litigation, including developing case

strategy, deposing witnesses, arguing motions, retaining experts and pre-paring cases for trial. David has been an active FBANC member since2005. He received the FBANC Legal Scholarship in 2006 and was thestudent host for the Annual Banquet in 2007. He looks forward to workingwith the 2009-2010 Board.

Secretary - Freeda Yllana LugoFreeda is an associate in the Palo Alto office of Wilson SonsiniGoodrich & Rosati, where she is a member of the firm's litiga-tion practice. Freeda is a graduate of UC Berkeley Boalt HallSchool of Law.

Legal Clinics Director - Angela MapaAngela practices business and family immigration law. Shecounsels a broad range of clients, from individuals andsmall businesses to large corporations, and hassuccessfully represented professionals, students, families,and investors in nonimmigrant work visa, employment- andfamily-based permanent residence, and naturalizationcases. Ms. Mapa is an active member of the American

Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), and she currently volunteers asa Co-Liaison for the New Members Division of the Northern CaliforniaChapter of AILA. Ms. Mapa graduated from the University of California atBerkeley with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a minor in SpanishLanguage and Literature and earned her law degree from the Universityof San Francisco. She enjoys traveling and surfing, but not running.

Co-Historian - Monelle PalenciaMonelle was recently admitted to the bar in 2008.She is an attorney for the Law Offices of LeighHerman and the Law Office of RichardVaznaugh, where she practices civil litigationwith an emphasis in employment law. She

represents employees in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongfultermination, and wage and hour claims. Previously, Monelle was a lawclerk for the Office of the County Counsel of San Mateo. Monelle is alsoserving as FBANC’s representative to the Minority Bar Coalition. Bornand raised in San Francisco, Monelle received her undergraduatedegree from the University of California, Berkeley. She received her J.D.from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. While in lawschool, Monelle worked as a summer associate at Minami Tamaki, LLPand as a law clerk for Bay Area Legal Aid.

Co-Historian - Katie EsclamadoKatie is an associate at Van De Poel, Levy & Allen, whereshe practices civil litigation, representing clients primarilyin construction matters. She has a broad range ofexperience including construction, employment andERISA, personal injury and products liability. During lawschool she clerked for the Honorable Joe McDade of the

Central District of Illinois, and was a member of the University of SanFrancisco Law Review, the Asian Pacific American Law StudentAssociation, and participated in the Street Law Program. Katie graduatedfrom Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government in 2004,and received her Juris Doctor from USF in 2007.

Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr. ScholarshipDyanna QuizonAt the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law,Dyanna helped co-create the Women of Color networkand is a member of the Pilipino American Law Society.As part of the inaugural class of the UCDC LawProgram, Dyanna is currently spending her springsemester as a legal intern for the Civil Rights Division ofthe Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Shecredits her participation in the organization Filipinos for

Obama, recently re-named Kaya: Filipino Americans for Progress, forreigniting her interest in national politics. She graduated from theUniversity of California, Davis with highest honors. Dyanna also servedas a Congressional intern for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA).

FBANC ScholarshipJoanne VillanuevaJoanne is a 1L at the University of California, Berkeley,School of Law, and is primarily interested in civil rights,immigrants’ rights, and critical race theory. She isactive in the Pilipino American Law Society (PALS), theCoalition for Diversity, and the Legal Aid Society’sWorkers’ Rights Clinic. This semester, she also helpedfound the Women of Color network. Prior to coming to

law school, Joanne engaged in legal activism through Women’s LegalEducation, Advocacy, and Defense and the Third World MovementAgainst the Exploitation of Women. Joanne graduated from BrownUniversity in 2005. As an undergraduate, she served as an ExecutiveBoard Member of the Filipino Alliance, a Minority Peer Counselor Friend,and the President of Archipelag-a, a Filipina spoken word organization.She is also a member of Brown’s Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Scholarship Award Winners

Jose Rizal Achievement AwardLourdes TancincoLourdes began her legal career at the Universityof the Philippines School of Law, the center ofstudent activism in the 1980s. In 1993, about thesame time she started her own law practice,Lourdes fell upon a case that plunged her intocommunity service. Seventeen elderly FilipinoWorld War II veterans were placed in captivityand subjected to inhumane treatment by a FilipinoAmerican immigration “consultant” Catalino Dazoof Richmond, California.

Along with other Filipino American community volunteers, Lourdesrescued the veterans. The veterans sued Dazo and in 1995, ten of theveterans were granted damages. Lourdes was their lawyer, fighting ontheir behalf for two long years. Since then, she has been a tirelessadvocate for Filipino World War II veterans. In 1998, Lourdes co-founded the San Francisco Veterans Equity Center that provides basicservices for veterans. Lourdes provides free legal services for theveterans at the center through the Fil-Am Vet Legal Clinic, which she alsofounded in 1994. In 2000, she joined the National Network for VeteransEquity as a Co-Chair.

On February 17, 2009, 63 years after President Truman stripped theveterans of their benefits, President Obama signed the stimulus bill whichcontained a provision releasing $198 million in funds to compensate theveterans. All living U.S. citizen veterans will receive a $15,000 lump sumpayment.

Although the payments will certainly help the veterans, the victory isbittersweet. Non U.S. citizen veterans will only receive a $9,000 lump sumpayment and both payments are in lieu of a monthly pension or survivorbenefits. This means that only living veterans may file an application, andsurviving spouses and children of veterans who have already died willreceive nothing. Only about 18,000 of the 250,000 Filipinos who fought inthe war and helped the U.S. defeat Japan in the Pacific are still alive -6,000 in the U.S., 12,000 in the Philippines. And about 10 of them aredying each day.

For Lourdes, her community service will continue as she works withveterans to help them navigate through the process of actually receivingthe payments, and continue to serve as their voice so that theircontributions will never be forgotten.

Angelo AnchetaAssistant Professor of Law,Santa Clara University School of Law

Angelo Ancheta directs the Katharine &George Alexander Community Law Center, theuniversity’s civil clinical program. His currentresearch and teaching focus on constitutionallaw, civil rights, voting rights, and clinicaleducation.

He has also been a Lecturer on Law at theHarvard Law School, an Adjunct AssociateProfessor of Law at the New York UniversitySchool of Law, and a Lecturer at the UCLA

School of Law. From 2000 to 2004, he was the Director of Legal andAdvocacy Programs for The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

Prior to his academic career, Ancheta was a legal services and civilrights attorney in California, and specialized in the areas of immigrationlaw, anti-discrimination law, and appellate advocacy. From 1994 to 1998,he was the executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian LawCaucus. He has also been a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific AmericanLegal Center of Southern California, and the Asian Law Alliance in SanJose, California.

He has written numerous law review and professional journal articles oncivil rights and community-based lawyering, and is the author of thebooks “Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience” (1998; 2d ed.2007) and “Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law” (2006).

He has been on the board of directors of several nonprofit organizations,including California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., the National AsianPacific American Legal Consortium, the National Immigration Forum, theCoalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and the ACLU ofSouthern California.

Ancheta received his A.B. in 1983 from UCLA and his J.D. in 1986 fromthe UCLA School of Law, where he was Chief Managing Editor of theUCLA Law Review. He also received an M.P.A. in 2000 from the John F.Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was aPforzheimer Foundation Nonprofit Fellow.

Keynote Speaker