Leading Questions: Akin Gump Partner Alison Chen

Lawyers are great at asking questions, but how are they at answering them? Bloomberg Law is talking with lawyers and other legal industry players at the top of their fields to find out what makes them tick, what challenges they face, and how they do what they do.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s Alison Chen has come a long way from childhood jobs in her native Taiwan, which included work in a rice field and shoe factory, experiences that she said have given her valuable perspective to bring to her role as a Big Law partner practicing tax law ...