Julia Yong-hee Park

BIO

Julia Yong-hee Park is originally from Seoul, Korea.  Julia prides herself on her sensitivity to and understanding of multicultural issues that arise in both the business and personal settings, having spent her childhood in the Midwest and her adolescence and half of her adulthood in Korea.

Julia began her legal career as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York City before opening her own law practice.  At Cravath, Julia spent many hours providing sophisticated transactional legal services to Fortune 500 companies and global financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions from bank loans to equity IPOs.

Prior to practicing law, Julia was a conference interpreter in Seoul, Korea.  As an interpreter, she facilitated communications in over 400 seminars and conferences for international organizations and corporations such as the WTO, OECD and IBM.  She also worked for many VIPs visiting Korea including former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, as well as various industry leaders such as Lou Gerstner of IBM and Jeffery Katzenberg of Dreamworks Animation.  Julia also served as the youngest adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Interpretation & Translation at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

Julia received a B.A. from Sogang University and an M.A. from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, both in Seoul, Korea.  She received her law degree from Boston College Law School, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, where she was a Senior Editor of the Boston College Law Review.

In addition to being Principal Attorney at the Law Offices of Julia Park, LLC, Julia serves as Of Counsel at Levitt & Needleman, P.C., a premier immigration firm that has been serving a wide-range of business and individual clients nationally and internationally for over 30 years.