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Guided Tour at the Chinese American Museum. Recent Trailblazers in the Law. Microaggressions in the Workplace. Empowering Attorneys toFight Against Hate. APAs vs. Hate Conference. After clerking for U. Then he decided to go to work for the U. He remembers:. And I had decided there was nothing I would rather do. He says he still feels that way. A federal prosecutor since , he rose through the ranks to become chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section.

Fit, Youthful-Looking. Under-average height, slender and utterly fit looking, in a perfectly tailored light brown suit, Hsu looks a great deal younger than his 39 years. There is an elevated cheerfulness about him, an inclination to break into light laughter that somehow belies his grim occupation of fighting the forces of crime on behalf of the U. You can see why one of his distinguished, and favorite, professors at Yale Law School , Harold Koh, now advisor to the U.

Koh adds:. For its first decade, the organization grew gradually. But members say it is now the oldest and largest organization of its kind in the state. Broadening Awareness. The founders included legal pioneers Ronald S. Lew, now a senior U. Early members also recall that at first SCCLA was something of a gathering and bonding group for Sino-American attorneys that also included as it does still a number of Filipino-, Korean- and Japanese-American members.

The other minorities have since established their own voluntary bar groups, though many continue to hold membership in SCCLA as well. As did judgeships. Unpunished Slaying. Vincent Chin was bludgeoned to death in a Detroit suburb by drunken assailants who thought he was Japanese—and thus somehow responsible for the loss of U.

It showed, Sun says, that Asian-Americans of all professions and national origins needed to get proactive about issues such as stereotype, discrimination and race hatred.