State Bar & Bar Associations
Nov. 23, 2007
New President Helps Fill Void for Asian-American Lawyers
Helen B. Kim, a securities and commercial litigation partner in Baker Hostetler's Los Angeles office, has become the new president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
By Rebecca U. Cho
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Soon after Helen B. Kim left a budding career as a classically trained pianist to become a litigator in New York in the 1980s, she came face to face with a hard truth: She did not see any Asian-American female litigation partners at the big New York law firms.
"There was a lack of role models or mentors at that time," Kim s...
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Soon after Helen B. Kim left a budding career as a classically trained pianist to become a litigator in New York in the 1980s, she came face to face with a hard truth: She did not see any Asian-American female litigation partners at the big New York law firms.
"There was a lack of role models or mentors at that time," Kim s...
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