Boosting your legal career in Japan through your guiding principles with Lexi Takamatsu

Lexi Takamatsu had just sat down for the very first time in her new home in the US, opened her laptop to find an email which would change the trajectory of her life again. Lexi shares how by finding what she likes about her legal practice and focusing on those areas, opportunities have come to her that she never imagined.
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In this episode you’ll hear:

How Lexi came to be a lawyer after a foray into insurance
The similarities between the law and Japanese language
The email that upended her carefully laid plans
Lexi’s transition from US law firm to Japanese law firm
How Lexi is breaking new ground in creating an international litigation team in a Japanese law firm
Her favourite book and other fun facts

About Lexi
Lexi is an international disputes specialist, who has represented companies in U.S. domestic and international litigation and arbitration, including commercial disputes, intellectual property disputes, and corporate governance disputes.

She is also experienced in internal investigations and compliance, and was seconded to a large Japanese company to assist with a major internal compliance and white collar investigation.
Lexi attained her BA from University of Southern California 2008, and JD from U.C. Berkeley, School of Law in 2015. She was admitted in California in the same year (2015
and is admitted as a registered foreign lawyer in Japan as of 2021 and a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association
In 2015, Lexi completed a one-year clerkship (2015-2016) for a U.S. Federal District Court Judge in the Central District of California, assisting the Judge in drafting opinions for the civil litigation cases on her docket.
In 2016 Lexi joined the U.S. law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in Los Angeles, California. After 2 years with Skadden Lexi joined the disputes department of Morrison & Foerster’s Tokyo office where she was from 2018 to late 2020. At MoFo she was in the disputes department working on cross-border intellectual property and contract-based disputes.
Lexi joined Mori Hamada in September 2020, she is working to expand Mori Hamada’s international arbitration practice, while also assisting in various disputes and white collar investigations.

Lexi is a fluent speaker of Japanese and also reads and writes in Japanese having received her JLPT N1 certification in 2018.
Connect with Lexi
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexi-takamatsu-a423a339/
Links
Routinery App
Burnout by Emily Nagoski https://www.amazon.co.jp/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/1984818325