Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Month

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Scalia Law honors all our students and alumni of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage, this month and always. Please meet some of these alumni featured here.

Noori Ali (’18)

Noori Ali
Noori Ali

Noori Ali (’18) is Counsel at Nixon Gwilt Law. As a former registered nurse, Noori combines her clinical experience with her understanding of the complex legal and regulatory landscape of the healthcare industry to provide clients with innovative legal solutions.

Helen Chong (’11)

Helen Chong
Helen Chong

Helen Chong (’11) is a former Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Virginia. She has been featured in Virginia Living’s "Beyond the Letter of the Law." Helen is the recipient of several national and state honors and was named Young Lawyer of the Year at the Virginia State Bar Annual Conference.

Kyung (Kathryn) Dickerson (’99)

Kyung (Kathryn) Dickerson
Kyung (Kathryn) Dickerson

Kyung (Kathryn) Dickerson (’99) is a principal at SmolenPlevy. She is an experienced attorney whose civil litigation practice includes Family Law, Contract/Corporate Disputes, and Trusts and Probate matters.

Michael Lew (’13)

Michael Lew
Michael Lew

Michael Lew (’13) is a registered patent attorney at Patterson & Sheridan, LLP, in the firm's Houston office. His practice focuses on the domestic and international preparation and prosecution of patent applications relating to communications technologies, complex software, and information technology.

Adam Park (‘13)

Adam Park
Adam Park

Adam Park (’13) serves as Assistant General Counsel at Main Street Capital. With his deep knowledge of U.S. federal securities laws, including the Securities Act, Exchange Act and Investment Company Act, Adam advises clients on matters relating to public and private capital markets transactions and SEC reporting requirements.

Kim Phan (’06)

Kim Phan
Kim Phan

Kim Phan (’06) is a partner at Ballard Spahr where she counsels clients on privacy and data security law. She is a board member and past president of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of the Greater Washington DC area.

Tinny S. Song (’18)

Tinny S. Song
Tinny S. Song

Tinny S. Song (’18) is an associate at Mintz where he practices antitrust, merger review, and civil litigation. He is a member of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Health Care and Pharmaceutical Committee and serves as the committee’s editor of Health Care Antitrust Week-in-Review.

Timothy L. Tang (’16)

Timothy L. Tang
Timothy L. Tang

Timothy L. Tang (’16) is an associate in Sterne Kessler’s Electronics Practice Group. His practice focuses on patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and patent office litigation at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). An engineer as well as an attorney, Timothy developed a relay health monitoring device used to detect faults in nuclear reactor protection systems.

Emily Yu (’19)

Emily Yu
Emily Yu

Emily Yu (’19) is an attorney in the office of the Attorney General of Arkansas. She was a mentor for judicial internships and clerkship organizations.