Student Profiles

Our outstanding students bring a rich array of experience, legal knowledge and cultures to USC Law. They come from countries all over the world.

Rebecca Haake

Germany

Rebecca Haake enrolled in law school at the University of Mainz in 2004, where she was first introduced to the common law system when taking legal English classes. Ms. Haake participated in the Willem C. Vis Moot Court competition as member of the Mainz Law School team, which led her to major in international private law and international public law. Her first work experience was during an internship in Miami in 2006, where she interned with Baur & Klein, a German and American law firm. She learned about the connections between German and American Law and how both jurisdictions support and work with one another in international cases. Ms. Haake then interned with the administrative court in Mainz to gain experience in the court room. In 2009 she passed the first German state examination in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since February of 2010, Ms. Haake has been working in the Frankfurt office of Mayer Brown LLP, an international law firm, where she is part of the Corporate Group and has been drafting contracts and memoranda, doing legal research and translating important documents between German and English. During the LL.M. program, Ms. Haake wishes to focus on international corporate and business law. She then hopes to take the California or New York Bar exam in order to be admitted to practice in both Germany and the U.S.
Sathien Rungthongkhamkul

Thailand

Sathien Rungthongkhamkul earned his Bachelor of Laws degree from Thammasat University and the Thai Barrister-at-Law license from the Institute of Legal Education of the Thai Bar Association. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul worked as an associate lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Bangkok for nearly five years. During that period, he was assigned to provide the firm's clients with general legal advice, draft various types of commercial contracts and handle corporate structure and a number of merger and acquisition deals in Thailand. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul mainly specialized in insurance law and mergers and acquisitions. In 2006, he decided to pursue his dream of becoming a judge in the Thai Court. Mr. Rungthongkhamkul currently serves in the Ranong Provincial Court, where he is responsible for adjudicating civil and criminal cases. He intends to focus his studies on U.S. criminal justice and some on corporate and business law as well.