Kathy A. Khol

kkohl@millerngo.com

Associate

While in law school Kathy was a member of the Women’s Law Journal and clerked at various civil litigation firms as well the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. Kathy practices in the area of Personal Injury, Landlord Tenant Law, and Family Law.

Admitted in:

• California

Memberships:

• SF Bar Association

• Alameda Bar Association

Education:

J.D., UC Hastings College of the Law, 2008

B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 2004

Oktober Mason Miller

omiller@millerngo.com

Associate

Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Immigration, Contracts, Mediation

Oktober was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Berkeley. He began his legal career in 1999 in San Francisco at the firm of Berry, Appleman and Leiden as a member of the adjustment of status team obtaining green cards for foreign employees of such prominent companies as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Pixar. In 2005 he moved into the field of medical malpractice litigation as a law clerk for the San Francisco firm of Allan Lerch and Associates, where he was responsible for all matters involving civil discovery. Oktober went on to obtain his law degree and certification in mediation from John F. Kennedy University. In 2009, Oktober joined Miller & Ngo as a general practitioner working with a diverse group of clients in various areas of the law including immigration, personal injury, family law, contracts, landlord-tenant, as well as other areas. Oktober currently resides in the East Bay with his wife, a native of Dresden, Germany, and their family. As a member of multinational family Oktober has a particular interest in international and EU law. He has traveled extensively in Central America and Cuba, Europe and Southeast Asia.

Admitted In

• California

Memberships

• San Francisco BAR Association

• Alameda County BAR Association

• Vietnamese American BAR Association of Northern California

Education

• J.D., JFK University School of Law

• B.A., Psychology and Science and Living Systems, JFK University

Natashe Washington

nwashington@millerngo.com

Senior Associate

Ms. Washington is a member of the California, New York and South African bars and has a strong background in litigation.  Before joining Miller & Ngo she was a Senior Public Prosecutor in South Africa for ten years prosecuting cases rape, murder and robbery.

Admitted in:

• California

• New York

• South Africa

Memberships:

• National Lawyers Guild

• Alameda County Bar Association

Education:

• LLM(International Legal Studies)

• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA (2007)

• LLM (US Legal Studies)

• Scholarship recipient American Association of University Women (AAUW)

• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA (2006)

• BA-LLB

• University of Cape Town, South Africa (1994)

Tom Miller

tmiller@millerngo.com

Founder

Personal Injury, Non-Profit, Business Law (concentration in Cuba and Vietnam), Contracts and Trusts and Wills.

Tom grew up north of Chicago, Illinois, attending The Farm School and New Trier High School.  Prior to attending Yale College he prospected for gold in Alaska and worked in logging camps and railway gangs in California, Oregon and Western Canada.  At Yale he established the Yale Man Abroad Program with Chaplain William Sloane Coffin and, after graduating, he helped establish the Peace Corps and train the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers, spending two years as a secondary school teacher in Ghana.  He then attended Stanford Law School, where he founded the International Law Society and served as an intern in the State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor.  After admission to the New York Bar, Tom joined the Manhattan firm of Webster Sheffield, where he founded Children’s Medical Relief International and traveled to Vietnam to establish, with Professor Arthur Barsky,  the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery to treat war-injured children.  The Center treated thousands of war-injured children during the war, including the little girl, Kim Phuoc, whose image, running naked from her napalmed village, shocked the world.  The Center continues today as a top teaching hospital, and Tom continued his work with Vietnam – working to have the embargo lifted after the war and opening the first representative legal office there after the embargo was lifted.  At the end of the war, when thousands of Vietnamese children were brought to the United States as “orphans”, Tom helped pursue a class action lawsuit to return children who were not orphans to their Vietnamese families.  The story of one of these children became a documentary, “Daughter from Danang” which won the Grand Jury Award as the Best Documentary at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Oscar.  Recently Tom co-founded Green Cities Fund, which has established a number of projects, including Parwaz (www.parwaz.org) the first Afghan-run microfinance organization providing small loans to widows and others in need in war-torn Afghanistan.  Green Cities also established the Vietnam Green Building Council (www.vsccan.org/vgbc/) and is establishing a community-based ecotourism project to help save the Prey Lang forest area in Cambodia, the largest unprotected forest area in Southeast Asia, where some 700,000 Kuy ethnic minority, who have been protecting the forest for generations, face extinction as the forest is destroyed by illegal logging, mining and plantations (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJHEiYmleVo) .

Tom also offers business advice with respect to Cuba, where he has traveled on numerous occasions in the last 15 years as a representative of Global Exchange, a San Francisco human rights organization.  He has helped organize conferences on Cuba at the University of California in Berkeley and has defended, pro bono, scores of  U.S. citizens charged with violating the U.S. travel ban.

Admitted In

• California  and New York (inactive)

Awards

• United States Jaycees “Outstanding Young Man of the year” 1974

• United Nations Association “Global Citizen Award” 2008

Education

• Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia University, Certificate 1966

• Stanford Law School, LL.B. 1965

• Yale University, B.A., 1960

Board Memberships, etc.

• Global Exchange, Legal Council

• Green Cities Fund, Co-founder & Chair

• Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, Chair

• Send A Piana To Havana, Legal Council

• Vietnam Green Building Council, Co-founder & Int’l Advisory Board

• Participated in the production of documentaries on Vietnam, South America and Cuba, by Oscar winning documentary filmmaker Pierre Dominique Gaisseau and Oscar nominee Gail Dolgin.

Ms. Washington specializes in personal injury, medical malpractice, immigration, family law and special education.  She is a member of the California, New York and South African bars and has a strong background in litigation.  Before joining Miller & Ngo, Natashe (pronounced “Natasha”) was a Senior Public Prosecutor in South Africa for ten years prosecuting major criminal cases involving rape, murder and robbery and receiving numerous commendations for her work.

• California
• New York
• South Africa

• National Lawyers Guild
• Alameda County Bar Association

• LLM(International Legal Studies)
• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA (2007)
• LLM (US Legal Studies)
• Scholarship recipient American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA (2006)
• BA-LLB
• University of Cape Town, South Africa (1994)