Abigail is proud to serve you as FLOW's President. She is an attorney for the U.S. Department of Labor enforcing federal labor laws including safety laws, reemployment rights for veterans, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and other labor laws. She was born in the Philippines and emigrated to the United States in 1985 as the first of six children. She attended Olympic Community College and transferred to the University of Washington where she earned her B.A. in Political Science. Abigail is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law. She volunteers with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Group (NWIRP), serving on their Board of Directors, and volunteers as an attorney for the Asian Bar Association/King County Bar Association Legal Clinic.
email abigail.daquiz@gmail.com
phone 206-595-9380
Eric C. de los Santos is Assistant General Counsel and Director of Employment Law for TrueBlue, Inc., headquartered in Tacoma, Washington. TrueBlue is a national leader in the blue collar staffing industry. In addition to providing counsel and advice on labor and employment issues, Eric coordinates lobbying efforts on behalf of the company in several of its larger markets across the country. He is active in various bar associations and is President-Elect of the Filipino Lawyers of Washington. He also formerly served on the Washington State Bar Association Board of Governors. He is a graduate of Brown University and the University Of Washington School Of Law. He was born and raised in Honolulu, and lives with his partner Chad in Seattle.
email edelossantos@trueblueinc.com phone 253-680-8483
Gail is an associate in Bullivant Houser Bailey PC's Seattle office, and focuses her practice on Corporate and Business matters. Gail has significant experience assisting both public and privately held companies with a range of corporate legal needs, including pre-formation planning, entity formation, corporate governance, and contractual issues, and cross-border transactions. She has also advised companies on a range of regulatory matters, including assisting an American subsidiary of a Japanese freight forwarder on compliance with Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Law (J-SOX). In addition, she has handled several multi-million dollar acquisition and reorganization transactions between companies on a regional, national and international scale.
email gail.manuguid@bullivant.com
phone 206-292-8930
Jeri is the Contracts Attorney for Evergreen Healthcare in Kirkland, Washington, where she is responsible for reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing various types of contracts on behalf of the Hospital. Prior to going in-house at Evergreen, Jeri was an associate attorney with Miller Nash LLP, in the firm’s business department. Jeri is a 2007 graduate of the University of Washington School of Law, where she was part of the Tribal Court Criminal Defense Clinic, the Moot Court Honor Board, and served as Vice President of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Jeri attended Rice University on a tennis scholarship, and she graduated in 2004, cum laude, with a degree in Kinesiology/Sports Medicine. Jeri’s mother, Loida, was born and raised in Manila, and moved to the U.S. in 1975. Jeri’s paternal grandfather was from Dagupan City in the Pangasinan province, and her paternal grandmother was from Danao in Cebu. Jeri’s father, Jeffrey, and older brother, JJ, are both Immigration attorneys in Portland, Oregon.
email jcgonzales@evergreenhealthcare.org
phone 206-425-899-2646
Ace is a solo practitioner engaged in limited but general practice of law with a focus primarily on labor and employment issues. Prior to starting his own practice, Ace was an associate at In Pacta Lawyers, PLLC. Before that, Ace was a member of the e-Discovery and Technology Group at K&L Gates, LLP for eight years. Ace earned his law degree from Suffolk University Law School, in Boston, Massachusetts. As a law student, he served in various leadership roles, including president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. While in law school, Ace served as a summer law clerk for a federal magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and received a public interest law fellowship award. With the fellowship, he clerked for the City of Boston Law Department for two years until his final year of law school. Ace also represented low-income clients in various landlord-tenant matters as a Rule 9 intern with the Greater Boston Legal Services’ Housing Unit. Prior to law school, Ace spent three years in Nagasaki, Japan as an English teacher for the Japanese government’s Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Ace is a graduate of Gonzaga University with B.A. in Political Science and a minor in Italian, where he served as student body president during his senior year. Ace’s interest in language and culture motivated him to study Italian abroad, in which he spent his junior year in Florence, Italy through the Gonzaga-in-Florence program. Ace is also a member of the American Bar Association’s General Practice, Solo and Small Law Firm Division, and the Asian American Bar Association of Washington.
email ace@aldanalaw.com
phone 206-307-9917
email benes.z.aldana@uscg.mil
phone 206-217-6401
Lisa's father is from Capiz, and her mother from Romblon, in the Visayan region of the Philippines. They immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Seattle, where she and her siblings were born and raised. At the age of 14, while sitting at the dinner table arguing with her father, Doty, he sarcastically suggested that she become a lawyer. Years later, after earning her bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington, Ms. Apsay decided to pursue her father’s suggestion by enrolling at Gonzaga University School of Law. As a law student, Ms. Apsay served as the secretary and treasurer of the school’s Asian and Pacific Islander Law Caucus and was Gonzaga’s student liaison to the Asian Bar Association of Washington. During her third year of law school, she had the fortune of working as a judicial extern at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division III, under the guidance of the Honorable Kenneth Kato. Ms. Apsay is currently pursuing her passion for criminal law as a public defender in Bellingham, WA, for Bellingham Assigned Counsel, P.S., though she still travels to Seattle often for family parties and home-cooked food.
email lapsay@qwestoffice.net
phone 360-676-7661
email samiolaw@aol.com
phone 206-517-8080
ROMMEL DE LAS ALAS was born in Seattle Washington and raised in West Seattle. He graduated from John F. Kennedy High School, class of 1993. Rommel went on to graduate from the University of Washington in 1997 with a degree in Political Science. Rommel received his J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 2001. He first served as a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Thurston County and then worked as an associate for Orion Law Firm. He now has his own business, The Law Office of Rommel E. de las Alas, PLLC. His primary area of practice is criminal defense. Rommel is locally involved with the Filipino Community of Seattle, serving as a boardmember. He is also conversant in Tagalog.
email rdelasalas@yahoo.com
phone 206-651-6332
Elaine is a trial attorney with the Law Office of William J. O'Brien where her practice is in bodily injury and premises liability. Elaine is an Executive Board Member of the Filipino Alumni Chapter for Seattle University.
email elaine.edralin.pascua@zurichna.com
phone 206-515-4800
email heather@aoki-sakamoto.com
phone 206-624-1900
John Laney is an associate in the Corporate practice group and has experience with Stimulus Act funding for renewable energy projects. John represents clients in corporate governance matters; mergers and acquisitions; and corporate, securities and financing transactions, with an emphasis on the development, structuring, financing and acquisition of renewable energy projects. Prior to law school John was a senior account executive with HSBC, Consumer Lending. John was an extern for the Honorable John C. Coughenour, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (2007); a law clerk at Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S. (2007); and a legal extern at the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office (Summer 2006).
email jslaney@stoel.com
phone 206-386-7559
mail aurora.martin@columbialegal.org
phone 425-464-1122, ext. 608
Tisha is a partner at K&L Gates, LLP and counsels and represents public and private clients regarding environmental litigation and regulatory issues. Her regulatory practice has primarily focused on negotiations with federal and state agencies' hazardous waste issues, brownfields redevelopment and insurance. She has served as President of the Washington Women Lawyers (2005-2006), serves on the editorial board of the WSBA Environmental and Land Use Section, and a past Committee Chair of the King County Bar Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Profession.
email tisha.pagalilauan@klgates.com
phone 206-623-7580
Florian "Ian" practices exclusively in immigration and citizenship law. His practice encompasses all areas of immigration law, particularly adjustment of status, family petitions, waiver applications, and deportation defense. Florian also regularly handles employment based immigration matters including labor certifications and non-immigrant visas for foreign professionals. Ian is fluent in Tagalog and is very active in the Filipino community. He is currently the Youth Chair of the regional chapter of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA).
email fpurganan@hiplawfirm.com
phone 253-520-5000
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