Natalie Friend Wilson, associate, Langley & Banack

Experience:

  • Langley & Banack, 2010-present
  • Moseley Biehl Tsugawa Lau & Muzzi, 2010
  • State of Hawaii, Hon. Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. 2007-2008

Education:

  • University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, 2007
  • St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2004

What drew you to a career in law?

As an undergraduate, the leadership seminar that I took part in studied the differences in environmental regulation between Baltimore, Houston, and Shanghai, which piqued my interest in environmental policy and regulation. I went to the University of Hawaii specifically for their Environmental Law program and earned the Environmental Law Certificate. I hoped to work in environmental policy and compliance. Then Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy just as I was finishing my judicial clerkship and I was thrust into the world of insolvency and restructuring where I discovered a passion I never even guessed was possible.