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Locke joins Seattle law firm as China trade expert

By DAVID AMMONS
AP POLITICAL WRITER

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Former Gov. Gary Locke, the country's first Chinese-American governor, will join a blue-chip Seattle law firm, specializing in Asia trade and energy policy.

Locke, 55, will join Davis Wright Tremaine as a partner in mid-March, the former Democratic governor and the firm announced Tuesday. The salary was not disclosed, but it's expected to be much higher than the $145,000 he made as governor.

Davis Wright has offices in Seattle, Bellevue, Anchorage, Portland, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Shanghai, with over 400 attorneys.

Locke said the new post is a perfect fit, since it allows him to work in fields that greatly interested him as governor, including trade and foreign relations, energy policy and working on intergovernmental relations.

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