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Ishibashi Legal Office
California Attorney, Gyosei Shoshi Junko Ishibashi

• Member- The State Bar of California
• Tokyo District Gyosei Shoshi Association- Member (since 2007)
• American Bar Association- Forum Committee on Entertainment & Sports Industries, Section of Intellectual Property Law
• Real Estate Transaction Manager
• Business Copyright Upper License

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Junko Ishibashi is a California Attorney, Solicitor (Gyousei Shoshi) and Real Estate Dealing Manager in Japan.

She was a Japan Representative of Branch of UK Recruiting Agency, Strategic Selection International between 2018 and 2013, and a co-founder of Contra Inc. with Yoshiro Kataoka, entertainment consulting firm for the (mostly) play, Animation productions and companies in 2014, act as planner, sales rep, system admin and legal counsel.

Since going back to Japan after graduating from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School (got LLM), and obtaining Entertainment Marketing Certificate at New York University in 2003, she worked for music and game companies, foreign based IT corporations (Thomson Reuters, Oracle) and Japanese IT or start-up companies as legal counsel or contract deal manager until she made her own legal office in 2017.

After graduating from Waseda University (BA in Economics), she worked at Pony Canyon (Record Label and audio & visual production and distribution industry) for 5 years and Ad agency Cosmo Communications, Inc., (now merged by Hakuhodo Group) for 10 years. During working at Cosmo, she entered and graduated from Chuo University (BA in Law) in 1999 since she decided to go and enter law school for studying entertainment laws. 

She enjoy cruising, skiing, playing piano & flute, and watching American & Korean dramas.