Board of Directors
Judy He is a patent and trade secrets litigator who has represented companies across various industries, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, vaping devices, and more, from pre-suit to post-trial and appeal before federal courts. Judy also has experience with petitions before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and investigations before International Trade Commission (ITC). In 2024, Judy was one of the recipients of the American Bar Association’s “On the Rise” Award, which recognizes young lawyers who exemplify a broad range of high achievement, innovation, vision, leadership, and legal and community service.
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Kim is a staff attorney for the Asian Law Caucus' National Democracy Initiative. Kim works with community organizations and nonprofits on voting rights and civic engagement. She has experience investigating, litigating, and advocating against violations of voting rights and election laws. She earned her J.D from the University of Wisconsin, where she interned at the Wisconsin Innocence Project. She received her B.A from the University of Michigan. Kim grew up in a multilingual and limited-English-speaking household, and is passionate about the intersections of language and disability access, and racial justice. Kim lives in Chicago, Illinois. She serves on the board of directors for the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community (CBCAC), the professionals board for CARPLS legal aid, and the board for the Chinese American Bar Association of Greater Chicago. |
Elaine Liu is a Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement partner at Mayer Brown. She focuses primarily on litigation relating to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), in addition to her complementary substantive experience in labor & employment and a wide range of other complex litigation and investigations, such as those involving fraud, the False Claims Act, and consumer protection. Elaine has significant experience at all stages of litigation, whether in briefing and arguing dispositive motions, conducting fact and expert discovery, or representing clients at trial. In particular, Elaine has deep knowledge of electronic discovery and information governance, which is critical to overseeing expansive e-discovery in litigation, conducting forensic data investigations, and advising clients on best practices for managing ESI. Moreover, leveraging her background in economics, as well as a management consultant advising major corporations, private equity funds, and other investment firms on business strategy, Elaine has extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary expert teams and developing damages models to support litigation. Elaine received her JD from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and served as Editor-in-Chief and a member of the Board of Directors of the Columbia Business Law Review. Elaine received her AB cum laude with High Honors in Economics from Harvard University. |
Alan Montera is a Partner at McAndrews whose practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and prosecution. Alan graduated magna cum laude from Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he was a member of the Chicago-Kent Law Review and the Intellectual Property Law Society, as well as the treasurer for the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA). Prior to law school, Alan graduated with merit from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. As a junior officer, he was responsible for supervising the multi-million dollar S6W Nuclear Reactor, as well as navigating the submarine through international waters. While aboard, the Seawolf completed a six-month Western Pacific deployment and multiple significant maintenance and upgrade periods. |
Jaz Park serves as assistant general counsel for the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Her fifteen years’ experience in labor and employment law include the investigation, mediation, and litigation of cases involving race and gender discrimination, wage and hour disputes, non-compete agreements, and whistleblowing. Previously, Jaz was an employee relations manager with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, as well as a lecturer on Employment Litigation at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she earned her JD in its Labor and Employment Law program. She is also an alumna of Brown University for her BA and Chicago Public Schools K-12. Outside of her practice, Jaz currently serves as the President of the Korean American Bar Association (KABA) and Co-Chair of the Minority Bar CLE Conference, and previously, she has served as Vice President of the Korean American Association of Chicago. |
Avani Patel | Avani Patel is the Supervising Senior Attorney for the Illinois Court Help Program at the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts, where she leads a statewide team that assists court users across all 102 Illinois counties. She also serves as Special Projects Manager at the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession. Avani is deeply committed to AAPI bar associations and previously served as an at-large board member for NAPABA (2023–2025) , as the 2022 president of SABA Chicago, and is the immediate past-president of SABA Chicago Foundation. She holds a certificate in Leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Northwestern University, a JD from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School, and a BBA from Loyola University Chicago. |
Saranya Raghavan is a Partner at Winston & Strawn. She focuses her trial practice on all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on patent litigation. She has years of experience counseling clients in connection with patent disputes. Her clients are companies in various high-tech and medical industries, including networking, telecommunications, semiconductor, computer hardware, cloud computing, and medical devices. Saranya is a Past President of the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of Chicago. Prior to her legal career, Saranya was a software engineer for a leading online travel agency. Saranya received her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law, her M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Florida Tech. |
Elbert specializes in commercial real estate, residential real estate, and corporate law. He has a proven track record of success in both legal and business capacities, working with various governmental entities, private businesses, and individual owners. His clients include commercial developers, investors, national homebuilders, private equity firms, and institutional and hard money lenders. Elbert frequently advises clients on general corporate matters such as operating agreements, shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, investment and joint venture portfolios, private financing, construction and permanent loans, management oversight, operations control of external joint venture partners, regulatory compliance and reporting, consulting and employment arrangements, severance and non-competition agreements, asset and stock sales and purchase agreements, loan documentation, and loan restructuring. Elbert also has extensive experience in the acquisition, disposition, and development of all types of real estate projects. This includes land banking transactions, drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, public-private partnerships, anchor leases, in-line leases, ground leases, subleases, master leases, outparcel leases, lease amendments, recognition agreements, SNDAs/NDAs, REAs, ECRs, and OEAs. Additionally, Elbert is skilled in overseeing the preparation of RFP responses, government oral presentations, and all aspects of contract implementation and administration post-award. |
Elbert RenivaJoseph Sung is an associate in the Chicago office of Latham & Watkins LLP. He represents financial institutions, private equity firms, and corporate borrowers in a broad range of leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations, working capital financings, and other domestic, cross-border, and multicurrency financings. Joseph earned his JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and his BA from Calvin University. |
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