Our Team
Tom Miller - Attorney
tom@millerwashington.com
EDUCATION
JD Stanford Law School
Certificate in Comparative Law Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law, Columbia University
BA Yale University
BACKGROUND
With a diverse background steeped in social impact both local and global, Tom has spent over 30 years building a law practice focused on helping communities that are often overlooked or lack access to protecting their legal rights. Tom has successfully represented Plaintiffs in thousands of personal injury claims.
At a young age Tom recognized the disparities between the world he came from and the world he was working to improve. As an undergrad Tom supervised Yale Undergraduate social welfare activities in the New Haven community, founded the Yale Man Abroad program with Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin and spent summers on railroad gangs in Canada with Frontier College, the predecessor of the Peace Corps. After graduating, he taught in Ghana and joined the UC Berkeley faculty to train the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers. This early mission-driven work set the tone for the rest of his career.
At Stanford Law School Tom 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 Webster Sheffield Fleischman Hitchcock & Chrystie, whose partners included New York City mayor John Lindsay and the President of the New York City Bar Association.
He left the prestigious Manhattan firm to found Children’s Medical Relief International to establish in Vietnam the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery with Professor Arthur Barsky . The Center treated thousands of war-injured children during the war--and continues today as a top teaching hospital.
Tom continued his involvement in Vietnam, working to have the embargo lifted, mediating the release of political prisoners, and opening the country’s first U.S. representative legal office. When thousands of Vietnamese children were brought to the United States as “orphans” of the war, Tom helped pursue a class action lawsuit to return children who were not orphans to their Vietnamese families.
Recently Tom co-founded Green Cities Fund, which established Parwaz, the first Afghan-run microfinance organization providing small loans to women in Afghanistan and, in Vietnam, the Vietnam Green Building Council to encourage green building.
Tom offers business advice and has defended scores of U.S. citizens charged with violating the U.S. Cuba travel ban, where he has traveled on numerous occasions in the last 25 years. His projects in Cuba include assisting to rebuild Old Havana’s historic harbor, assisting a teaching facility in Havana promoting sustainable farming, planning a clean water project in Palma Soriano, and a partnership with Bay Area chefs and organic farming experts to promote sustainable permaculture farming in Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He is co-founder of the award winning Bison Brewing Company, one of the first modern microbreweries in the United States.
Tom lives with his wife, journalist/writer Tran Tuong Nhu, in Berkeley where they have raised four children.
ADMITTED IN
California
New York (inactive)
AWARDS
United States Jaycees “Outstanding Young Man of the Year” 1974
United Nations Association “Global Citizen Award” 2008
New Trier High School achievement award 2013
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS, ETC.
Global Exchange, Legal Counsel
Green Cities Fund, Co-founder & Chair
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, Chair
Send A Piana To Havana, Legal Counsel
MAPlight, Advisory Board & Legal Counsel
Vietnam Green Building Council, Co-founder & Int’l Advisory Board
Kyleen Vo - Legal Assistant
kyleen@millerwashington.com
EDUCATION
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) University of California, Berkeley 2023
BACKGROUND
Legal Intern Miller Washington & Kim
Marketing intern Globalist.io
Student Ambassador at Berkeley City College organizing events dealing with subjects such as mental health, self-defense and promoting student community engagement.
Youth Advocate at Young Invincibles facilitating community discussion regarding social issues
Mentor YWCA conducting outreach to middle schools and established Our Voice website as platform for middle school girls to showcase their artwork and writing
Carlos Gonzalez - Of Counsel
carlos@millerwashington.com
EDUCATION
JD Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law
MPA California State University, Hayward
BS in Criminal Justice California State University, Sacramento
BACKGROUND
Carlos is a decorated Iraq war veteran and served in the United States Army from 1999 – 2007. In 2014 while attending law school, Carlos was one of 58 military service members, veterans and military spouses to join the Pat Tillman Military Foundation as a military scholar. He was chosen from over 7,500 interested applicants and he represented the best and the brightest from thousands of talented applicants.
As a former police officer with the Oakland Police Department, Carlos served the majority of his 10-year career as a patrol officer in East Oakland. He was later selected to serve in the Special Victims Unit as a criminal investigator. Carlos also served as a special agent with California Department of Justice investigating white collar crime in the Elder Abuse and Medi-Cal Fraud Division where he focused on provider fraud.
His legal career encompasses work with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California in San Diego where he was a law clerk in the General Crimes Division. He also did trial preparation for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office as a summer law clerk and worked for a prominent Indianapolis medical malpractice firm.
Carlos was born in Managua, Nicaragua and fled his native country with his family because of the war at the age of seven. He is a native Spanish speaker and enjoys spending his time with his family, reading and traveling anywhere toddlers are welcomed. Carlos’ wife, Chani, is a forensic expert and Trusted Expert Witness.
Natashe Washington - Of Counsel
EDUCATION
LLM International Legal Studies and LLM US Legal Studies, Golden Gate University
BA & LLB, University of Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND
Natashe (pronounced “Natasha”) is an accomplished Special Education specialist representing plaintiff families throughout California. In South Africa she had a distinguished litigation career as a Senior Prosecutor in high profile criminal cases.
ADMITTED IN
California
New York
South Africa
MEMBERSHIPS
National Lawyers Guild
Alameda County Bar Association
Peter Pang - Of Counsel
EDUCATION
JD Santa Clara Law School
LLM in International Economic Law University of Houston
Certificate Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
BA UC Berkeley
BACKGROUND
Peter Pang is founder of IPO Corporate Law Group, a Miller & Washington independent affiliate, and former general counsel to several Fortune 500 companies, including Hershey Foods, Dole, Nissan North America and Shell Oil.
Peter specializes in assisting high tech start-up companies and representing clients in China where he travels frequently. He is a member of the Bar in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and the District of Columbia.