HCMP recently welcomed its 2016 First-Year Diversity Fellowship grantee and summer associate - Jesse Feng - and  two summer associates - Asti Gallina and Andrew Okamoto - to the firm.

The HCMP First-Year Diversity Student Fellowship is a salaried summer associate position for first-year law students who contribute to the diversity of their law school, and who will contribute to the diversity of the legal profession. It includes a scholarship to be applied toward tuition and expenses during the student’s second academic year. Jesse graduated with distinction from the University of California, San Diego, then spent four years as an Army Ranger before beginning law school at the University of Washington School of Law.

Asti received HCMP’s First-Year Diversity Student Fellowship in 2015 and is studying law at the University of Washington School of Law. She is active as Managing Editor on the Washington Law Review, as a member of Moot Court Honor Board, as a Legal Writing Fellow and will be clerking for the Honorable Judge Salvador Mendoza in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Washington during her 2017 term. Asti graduated magna cum laude from Washington State University with a B.A. in Political Science, minor in Criminal Justice. Asti also received a Secondary Science Certification, Teacher in Residence program, from Rio Salado.

Andrew started his law studies at Rutgers School of Law, and now studies at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he is active as a member of the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. He received his undergraduate B.A. in Law and Justice from Central Washington University.

Over the course of the summer, Jesse, Asti and Andrew will work with attorneys in all four of HCMP’s major practice groups—Litigation, Real Estate & Land Use, Business, and Lender Services & Finance.