The Greater Orlando Asian American Bar Association “GOAABA” connects attorneys, judges, law students and legal professionals across Central Florida — through CLE and mentorship, referrals and friendship, and service to communities that language and cultural barriers too often leave behind.
The purposes written into GOAABA’s founding documents in 2009 still describe the work today.
Represent and advocate the interests of the Asian Pacific American community of the Greater Orlando area.
Promote the professional growth of our members through CLE programming, mentorship and leadership opportunities.
Facilitate client referrals between members and expand the opportunities open to Asian Pacific American attorneys.
Coordinate legal services for community members held back by language barriers, cultural wariness and other impediments to full legal assistance.
In March 2009, Glenn Leong called an informal meeting at Dexter’s with Jessica Hew, Kim Nguyen and Sunny Hillary. Orlando had a Hispanic Bar Association and the Paul C. Perkins Bar Association — but no unified voice for Asian American legal professionals, and no organised answer to the language and cultural barriers keeping community members from the courts.
Forty interested people became fifteen at the first organisational meeting that May. By 19 October 2009, GOAABA was incorporated.
Open to licensed attorneys in good standing, members of the judiciary and law students from any jurisdiction — without regard to ethnic background, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. The membership year begins 1 August.
Regular membership for licensed attorneys in good standing. A two-year regular membership is $125.
Members of the judiciary, government attorneys, and legal aid and legal services attorneys.
Law students, graduates awaiting Florida Bar results, and paralegals.
GOAABA announced its leadership team for the 2019-2020 term, led by President Leia V. Leitner.
Thanking the outgoing 2018-2019 leadership team, led by President Annie Kwong, for a year of service.
A Lunar New Year celebration for the Year of the Pig, and GOAABA’s first OCBA Race Judicata.
Happy hours, CLE lunches, the annual holiday gathering, Race Judicata, service days and the scholarship deadline — the calendar is where members find each other.
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