National Jurist - January 2008 - (Page 16) The power of language hen Anna Andreeva first thought about embarking on a legal career, she wanted to be a litigator who spent most of her days in the courtroom. In law school, she took a number of litigation-related classes and even participated in trial competitions. But when she started with White & Case, LLP as a summer associate during her second summer of law school, she By Ursula Furi-Perry gravitated toward corporate transactional work. Andreeva quickly realized that was the type of law she most enjoyed. “I am very much in love with what I do,” said Andreeva, now a secondyear corporate and finance associate in White & Case’s Miami office. “You get to work with so many parties…and [experience] their common work and effort towards a common goal.” As a summer associate, she worked on cases in a variety of fields — including litigation — but corporate and finance work grabbed her attention almost immediately. She enjoyed the diversity of the parties involved and the opportunity to work with many different people. Andreeva now handles mostly banking finance and airline finance cases, drafting agreements and loans, commenting on others’ drafts and coordinating any comments that opposing counsel may have. Much of her job requires contact with clients and others, she says, collecting documents and signature pages needed for closings and checking in with borrowers to make sure conditions on loans are met. The greatest challenge in transactional work is ensuring that every party’s New attorney masters corporate and finance transactions by speaking in her native Russian language. Anna Andreeva puts her foreign language skills to the test at White & Case by interacting with foreign banks and airlines. 16 THE NATIONAL JURIST January 2008
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