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Renwei Chung

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Kaffeinate coffee shop owner remembered by customer and friend | Durham Herald Sun

Kaffeinate coffee shop owner remembered by customer and friend | Durham Herald Sun

The Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) — “Are you seeing this?” read one of the many texts that bombarded my phone Wednesday morning. A gas-line explosion had just blown up the building that my favorite coffee shop, Kaffeinate, was located in. When I got out of my morning meeting, I began streaming the live video of the firemen aiming to extinguish the flames. I sat in disbelief as I stared at the ruins. It all felt so surreal. I left work at lunch to pick up my dog and walk over to the rubble. Even witnessing the scene unfold at ground zero, I still couldn’t believe what was happening.
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Kaffeinate coffee shop owner remembered by customer and friend | Raleigh News & Observer

Kaffeinate coffee shop owner remembered by customer and friend | Raleigh News & Observer

News & Observer — I spent a few hours at ground zero Wednesday talking to others who were also in disbelief. It felt as if we were at a wake. After spending so many mornings at Kaffeinate and with Mr. Lee. We were now mourning Kaffeinate and possibly Mr. Lee. One dead, not yet identified. Seventeen injured, including a fireman, and six in critical condition.
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1L Class Represents At Harvard Law School - And It's Picture Perfect

1L Class Represents At Harvard Law School - And It's Picture Perfect

Above the Law — This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with the organizers of the Harvard 1L photograph shoot — Armani Madison, Daniel Oyolu, and Shane Fowler. Their journeys to law school and motivations for organizing a picture of one of the largest classes of black students in HLS’s history are truly remarkable. I found their stories inspirational and learned quite a bit from them. I believe you will as well.
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3 Things Law Students And Young Lawyers Can Learn From First Lady Michelle Obama

3 Things Law Students And Young Lawyers Can Learn From First Lady Michelle Obama

Above the Law — "But you graduate when you make it up out of the streets / From the moments of pain, look how far we done came / Haters saying you changed, now you doing your thing." - Kanye West Many know Michelle Obama as the polished First Lady of the United States.
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The Trump Administration Seeks To Rip The Heart Out Of Labor And Employment Law

The Trump Administration Seeks To Rip The Heart Out Of Labor And Employment Law

Above the Law — "Your last chance to negotiate / Send in your seconds / See if they can set the record straight." - Lin-Manuel Miranda On Monday, former Solicitor General Paul Clement and current Principal Deputy Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall will argue against workers and the National Relations Labor Board (NLRB or the Board) in front of the Supreme Court to resolve this question: whether workplace arbitration agreements that ban class actions violate federal labor laws.
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Law School Advice For 1Ls From Amal Clooney, Chief Justice Roberts, And Other Notable Legal Figur...

Law School Advice For 1Ls From Amal Clooney, Chief Justice Roberts, And Other Notable Legal Figur...

Above the Law — In the past couple of years, I have written articles for American Bar Association’s Before the Bar Blog. I warned incoming law students that their grades matter, just not equally, and how they should be selfish with their schedule, but generous with their time. In the past few years, I’ve also had the opportunity to interview notable figures in the legal profession and gather their advice for law students and recent graduates.
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After A Major Civil Rights Victory, La Raza Has Even More Reason To Celebrate During Hispanic Her...

After A Major Civil Rights Victory, La Raza Has Even More Reason To Celebrate During Hispanic Her...

Above the Law — "Living in the big city / The American dream." - Cypress Hill Today is the official day to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Be sure to check out Google's beautiful tribute to Latino cultures in our country.
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Happy 100th birthday to I.M. Pei, architect of the Dallas skyline

Happy 100th birthday to I.M. Pei, architect of the Dallas skyline

The Dallas Morning News — The world-renowned architect I.M. Pei turns 100 years old on Wednesday. For those of you Dallasites who may be unfamiliar with his name, I guarantee you are familiar his work. Pei's architectural feats adorn our wonderful city of Dallas. It is quite remarkable to witness Pei's fingerprints all over the Dallas skyline.
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We must boycott United for assaulting a passenger

We must boycott United for assaulting a passenger

The Dallas Morning News — Doctors save lives, United Airlines assaults them. This is the legal definition of assault and battery, plain and simple.
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Unconscious Bias Remains Silent But Deadly For Legal Diversity

Unconscious Bias Remains Silent But Deadly For Legal Diversity

Above the Law — "We ain't going nowhere, but we got suits and cases." - Kanye On Monday, the Supreme Court held that jury deliberations are not entitled to secrecy if evidence emerges that those discussions were marred by racial or ethnic bias. As highlighted by the New York Times, Justice Anthony M.
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America, did Aylan Kurdi die in vain?

America, did Aylan Kurdi die in vain?

The Dallas Morning News — Both of these harrowing pictures were taken overseas, but it is hard to deny that we should bear no blame. Before we implemented a "total and complete shutdown" of Syrian and Muslim refugees from seven countries yesterday, our refugee intake was already criminal.
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For Giving Families Hope During The Holidays, Brittany Byrd Is My Inspirational Attorney Of The Y...

For Giving Families Hope During The Holidays, Brittany Byrd Is My Inspirational Attorney Of The Y...

Above the Law — "I work hard, pray hard, pay dues ayy / I transform with pressure, I'm hands-on with effort / I fell twice before, my bounce back was special." - Kendrick Lamar This week, President Obama granted clemency to 231 deserving individuals - the most individual acts of clemency granted in a single day by any president in this nation's history.
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For Texan of the Year, I nominate a chef who brought Japan to Lower Greenville

For Texan of the Year, I nominate a chef who brought Japan to Lower Greenville

The Dallas Morning News — At the southern end of the Lower Greenville District, between a building-for-lease and an auto-mechanic shop, lies the best ramen restaurant in Dallas. Dien Nguyen's first restaurant, Wabi House, is my go-to joint for the Japanese noodles. After several disappointing trips over the past couple years to various restaurants in Dallas, I have finally found the perfect amalgamation of broth, noodles, and chashu.
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Amid this talk of Muslim registries and Japanese internments, let's stop to praise Fred Korematsu

Amid this talk of Muslim registries and Japanese internments, let's stop to praise Fred Korematsu

The Dallas Morning News — Since the election, members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, such as Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, have discussed reinstating a registry for immigrants from countries with active terrorist groups. Some proponents have cited the registry for Japanese-Americans during World War II as a precedent for targeted, profiling registries.
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After Seeing Hamilton, I'm Convinced Our Democracy Will Go On

After Seeing Hamilton, I'm Convinced Our Democracy Will Go On

LinkedIn — "We in the shit now / somebody gotta shovel it." - Lin-Manuel Miranda, "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)," Hamilton Last week, I did two things
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New immigrants make us whole

New immigrants make us whole

The Dallas Morning News — This month marks the one-year anniversary of Boggs' death. As an Asian American in the 1940s, Boggs found it very difficult to land a job, even with a graduate school degree. So Boggs began her career at the Philosophy Library of my alma mater, the University of Chicago, working for next to nothing.
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Fourth Circuit's 10 Hardest Benchslaps Against North Carolina And Its Attack On Voting Rights

Fourth Circuit's 10 Hardest Benchslaps Against North Carolina And Its Attack On Voting Rights

LinkedIn — "Thus, in what comes as close to a smoking gun as we are likely to see in modern times , the State's very justification for a challenged statute
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A World Without Affirmative Action

A World Without Affirmative Action

Above the Law — With the Court seemingly poised to strike down affirmative-action in Fisher v. Texas, Elie, Joe and Renwei Chung debate how we got here and the future of diversity in higher education.+
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4 Things About Closing The Diversity Gap In The Legal Profession

4 Things About Closing The Diversity Gap In The Legal Profession

San Diego Lawyer September/October 2015 — Inside this Issue: Embracing Diversity & Closing the Gap; 100 Years of Women Serving on the Jury; SDCBA Files Amicus Brief; Jury Tweets: Dos & Don'ts
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On Sandy Hook's 4th Anniversary, Let's Focus On Our Responsibilities

On Sandy Hook's 4th Anniversary, Let's Focus On Our Responsibilities

LinkedIn — Ed. note: This post was originally published on October 9, 2015. "I feel the pain in my city wherever I go / 314 soldiers died in Iraq, 509 died in
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Renwei Chung: I'm from here. Is that enough?

Renwei Chung: I'm from here. Is that enough?

The Dallas Morning News — "Where are you from?" "Monterey, Calif." "Where are you really from?" "My dad is from Taiwan and mom is from China, is that what you mean?" In my life, these interrogatories are all too common. I'm not offended by this frame of mind, but I'm curious what my physical image conjures up and what inspires these daily encounters.
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How The Killing Of A Mentally Ill Man In Milwaukee Triggered The Starbucks 'Race Together' Initia...

How The Killing Of A Mentally Ill Man In Milwaukee Triggered The Starbucks 'Race Together' Initia...

Above the Law — Last month, Starbucks's and USA Today's "Race Together" initiative launched with the article "Why Race Together? Because Diversity Matters." It begins: Racial diversity is the story of America, our triumphs as well as our faults.
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Implicit Bias: The Silent Killer Of Diversity In The Legal Profession

Implicit Bias: The Silent Killer Of Diversity In The Legal Profession

Above the Law — "It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success / Hear my words or listen to my signal of distress." - J. Cole According to the Sentencing Project, "If current trends continue, one of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime, as can one of every six Latino males - compared to one of every seventeen white males."
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Combating Bias and Increasing Inclusion in the Legal Profession

Combating Bias and Increasing Inclusion in the Legal Profession

American Bar Association — Renwei Chung is the Diversity Columnist at Above the Law. You can contact Renwei by email at projectrenwei@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter (@renweichung), or connect with him on LinkedIn.
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