Bloomberg Law
Sept. 7, 2016, 6:14 PM UTC

What It’s Like to Practice Law in Japan as a Woman

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Louise Stoupe’s U.S. visa was set to expire. It was 2001 and she was working as an associate in Morrison & Foerster’s Palo Alto office. Someone suggested she move to the firm’s Tokyo office.

Fifteen years later, Stoupe is still in Japan. The office has grown from around 25 attorneys to more than 120 attorneys, including 50 Japanese attorneys.

She made partner around 2005 and is now the co-head of MoFo’s commercial litigation and trial practice group.

Born in Fiji, but having grown up in Hong Kong and New Zealand and later moving to the U.S., Stoupe has unique experience living between western and Asian cultures. ...

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