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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Ind. Law - Attorney with Barnes & Thornburg's Chicago office featured
The Chicago Tribune has an interesting story today about Mari Yamamoto Regnier, a partner in Barnes & Thornburg's Chicago office, heading their Japanese Practice Group. Some quotes:
[While attending Indiana University she] got a job as an assistant with the university's East Asian Studies Center and subsequently with an economic development firm dealing with Japanese investment in the Midwest.[Thanks to Indiana Daily Insight for the link.]In these jobs, she worked with Bob Reynolds, senior partner of a prestigious Indianapolis-based law firm, Barnes & Thornburg, who made her an unusual job offer.
"He told me that the firm had a vision," she said. "Its vision was to grow international business. He said I was the perfect candidate to be Japanese services coordinator. He said he wanted me to attend law school."
"I didn't know what it entailed," said Yamamoto Regnier. "But I realized that I enjoyed working with Japanese business people. And that the law is probably the most difficult area for Japanese business people to comprehend. When they'd locate plants in the U.S., they could understand business and technical aspects, but the law was difficult and complex for them. So I agreed."
Today, Yamamoto Regnier, 45, a partner in Barnes & Thornburg's Chicago office, is head of the firm's Japanese business practice.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 16, 2006 07:37 AM
Posted to Indiana Law