Shirley Lim is a Chinese lawyer born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1960. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and a Juris Doctor from Cornell University, and she practices as a partner at Riddell Williams, a law firm founded in 1906 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Background
Shirley Lim was born on November 11, 1960, in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei had become the seat of the Republic of China government after the government relocated to Taiwan in 1949, so her early life unfolded in the political capital of the island.
Her later education took place in the United States, where she completed an undergraduate degree at the University of California and then a Juris Doctor at Cornell University. This sequence led from Taiwan's academic environment to American legal training, shaping the professional path that followed.
Education
Shirley Lim received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California. The University of California is a public university system established by a state charter in 1868, and its campuses have long combined undergraduate instruction with research.
She then studied at Cornell University, which she completed with a Juris Doctor in 1987. Cornell Law School, the Ithaca-based law school of the private Cornell University, prepares attorneys for both public and private practice and admits students to its three-year Doctor of Law program after they have earned a bachelor's degree or its equivalent.
Career
Shirley Lim practices law as a partner at Riddell Williams, a firm founded in 1906. The firm is known for representation in corporate, employment, environmental, financial services, creditors' rights, litigation, and real estate matters, and it is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Riddell Williams later merged with Fox Rothschild LLP, a Philadelphia-headquartered firm, in 2017, a combination that established the Philadelphia firm's first footprint in the Pacific Northwest. Her legal career, based on her Juris Doctor training from Cornell, is therefore associated with a firm whose history spans more than a century of regional and national legal practice.
