Today's Immigrant of the Day is the latest lawyer I wanted to highlight who is named in the National Law Journal's list of the 50 most powerful minority lawyers in America. Taiwan-born Howard Chao is the partner in charge of West Coast mega-firm O'Melveny and Myers Asia practice. Chao has built the practice in to one of the nation's premiere international law groups, a fact that is confirmed by his being profiled in Time Magazine. According to the NLJ,
Chao is partner in charge of O'Melveny & Myers' Asia practice, which includes 120 legal professionals. In 26 years with the firm, Chao built the group's China team from its inception in the mid-1990s with offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai, adding an office in Beijing in 2003. Chao, also a member of the firm's mergers and acquisitions group, is a highly regarded figure in financial markets, deal-making and legal issues. In 2006, O'Melveny's group was named China practice of the year by Asian Legal Business magazine. In 2007, O'Melveny closed 16 Chinese public offerings -- raising nearly $6.5 billion on exchanges in the United States, Hong Kong and London -- and closed 70 private equity and venture capital deals in China.
Specifically, Sen. Kennedy is a supporter of immigration expansion.
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The term immigration reform is ambiguous. Depending on your viewpoint, immigration reform can mean either immigration expansion or restriction. This ambiguity is what allows vomitus like CIR 2007 to be labeled as immigration reform.
Posted by: BeeDee | June 02, 2008 at 08:40 PM
Senator Kennedy, supporter of immigration reform, has successful brain surgery:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNDIXzKvyoGpfOSCYkzQg0thsDvgD9123UP81
Posted by: USC | June 02, 2008 at 01:33 PM