July 2012 – ABA Journal.com
Liberia-born solo Johnetta Paye is betting her homeland holds great promise for American attorneys. Africa is opening up as a new frontier for American business, and Paye is offering clients wanting to expand into the subcontinent a distinct advantage: She knows the culture and has direct access to resources on the ground.
“We’re helping to broker deals, helping to draw up contracts, helping to get businesses into the country to stimulate the economy,” says Paye, 32, who came to the U.S. as a young girl and grew up in a close-knit Liberian community in the Minneapolis suburbs.