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HIP attorneys volunteer at Citizenship Day

October 30, 2013 – HIP immigration attorneys Mary Beth Leeper and Meghan Kelly-Stallings volunteered this Saturday at Citizenship Day, a twice-yearly event organized by Washington New Americans, a collaboration between One America and the Washington membership of American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA).

Mary Beth volunteered at the Des Moines site and helped prepare citizenship applications for those who attended. Meghan was the AILA site coordinator for the Pasco cite and focused her efforts on recruiting and supervising volunteers. The next Citizenship Day will be held in April 2014, with four sites located throughout the state. For more information about this program and upcoming events, check out http://weareoneamerica.org/become-citizen.

HIP celebrates grand opening of Centro Rendu

October 14, 2013 – Representatives from HIP’s immigration and family law practice groups attended a celebration to mark the grand opening of Centro Rendu, a community outreach program of St. Vincent de Paul of Seattle/King County, located in Kent, Washington. Centro Rendu offers a wide range of social services to the local Hispanic community, including literacy, ESL, computer, and citizenship classes as well as youth service and legal orientation programs. HIP immigration attorneys volunteer twice monthly at Centro Rendu to provide free immigration legal consultations and orientations to the Hispanic community. For more information about Centro Rendu, please see http://www.svdpseattle.org/centro-rendu/.

Mark Prothero speaks at 2013 Renton High School “Wall of Honor” ceremony

HANIS IRVINE PROTHERO partner Mark Prothero was the guest speaker at the 2013 Renton High School Wall of Honor induction ceremony on October 5^th at RHS. Mark, RHS class of ’74, was among the first class of 23 inductees in 2011. Mark spoke about the impact of his days at RHS building his foundation and teaching him the traits of hard work, taking pride in his work product, competitiveness, and giving back to the community.

Mary Beth on Univision TV news program!

October 11, 2013 – Mary Beth was on Univision TV news program last night at 6pm. She went with a new Kent organization called Centro Rendu which is part of St. Vincent de Paul as part of their new Hispanic outreach program. Our department attorneys are providing free consultations at the center twice per month to assist their efforts with the local Hispanic community. The segment is about the opening of Centro Rendu and they invited Mary Beth to accompany them. Congratulations Mary Beth!

Mark Prothero volunteers at Angle Lake Open Water Swimming Championships!

HANIS IRVINE PROTHERO partner Mark Prothero volunteered as the Independent Safety Officer for the Pacific Northwest Swimming Open Water Swim Championships held Saturday September 21^st at Angle Lake in SeaTac, WA. 140 swimmers ages 13 to 70+ competed in the 1 & 2 mile events, and the 12 & under 500 yard swim. Beautiful weather and great conditions led to some tremendous swims.

Mark Prothero, ISO, and Jenn Mesler, Water Safety Coordinator. Photo by Scott Lautman