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Crain's New York Business, January, 2007 by potkewitz, hilary

Byline: hilary potkewitz Michele Penzer, 38 Partner, Latham & Watkins If we had said to the Qatari government, `Do you want a young, female, Jewish lawyer on your team?' I'm sure the answer would have been, `No, that won't work,' '' says Bill Voge, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins, recalling one of Michele Penzer's early projects.

Nevertheless, he put the young attorney on the case--the financing of a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project, the first of its kind. The clients didn't know what to do with her when they met her at the airport. "They weren't accustomed to women coming to the country for business,'' Mr. Voge says. Over the next 18 months, Ms. Penzer became an expert on her clients' industry, writing the entire...

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