Asian Pacific American Legal Center

1145 Wilshire Boulevard, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-977-7500 phone
213-977-7595 fax
http://www.apalc.org website

Area of Inerest:
Organization - Legal Aid, Political Advocacy

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Pan Asian

Description:
The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC) was established in 1983 and has become the largest organization in Southern California that provides Asian and Pacific Islanders and other communities with multilingual, culturally sensitive services and legal education. Our in-house attorneys, paralegals, and staff have developed expertise in a variety of areas, such as immigration and naturalization, workers' rights, family law and domestic violence, immigration welfare, voting rights and anti-discrimination, and have also worked towards building intergroup relations. Our language capacity includes: Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Hindi, Ilocano, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malyayalam, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Interpretation in other languages can also be arranged.

Staff:
Stewart Kwoh, Executive Director
Karin Wang, Vice President Program Administration
Patrician Neville, Vice President Finance & Administration
Julie Su, Litigation Director

Submitted by:
Kimiko Kelly

New - 10/22/03