BOSTON – May 6, 2025 – Chinh H. Pham, a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig, LLP’s Boston office and Venture Capital & Emerging Technology Group co-chair, is the recipient of the 2025 Founders Award from The Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts (AALAM). Since 2005, AALAM has awarded a Founders Award annually to an Asian-American attorney who has made significant contributions in business, academics, or the community as it relates to the law. Pham will be honored at the annual AALAM banquet June 12.
An accomplished intellectual property (IP) lawyer, Pham advises emerging tech and life science inventors and companies through the strategic creation, implementation, and protection of IP rights. He works with his clients to leverage their key innovations for strategic commercial and business opportunities. He has held leadership roles with numerous legal organizations, including as president of the Boston Bar Association (2022-2023) and of the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys (2019-2020), and as a member of the Boston Museum of Science board of trustees.
Pham was honored by ALM/Law.com as the 2024 “Attorney of the Year” for New England, named by the Boston Business Journal to its 2023 list of Power 50: Movement Makers, and selected by Get Konnected! to its 2023 list of Boston’s 50 Most Influential Asian-American Pacific Islanders. In addition, he has been recognized as a “Technology Law Trailblazer” by The National Law Journal, acknowledged as one of the “Top Emerging Tech Lawyer” by TechCrunch, named a leading IP Strategist by IAM Strategy 300, and honored as an “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business" by the Asian American Business Development Center.
AALAM is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization devoted to serving the Asian American legal community and improving and facilitating the administration of law and justice. Founded by a small group of Asian-American lawyers, AALAM has now grown to a network of over 250 lawyers, judges, law professors, and law students in Massachusetts and New England and is a Northeast Region affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and an affinity bar partner of the Boston Bar Association. The banquet is open to all members and allies.