Legal beagle Tim Langley is both blessed and dogged with an interesting surname. "When I worked inside the Diet as a blue-eyed, moustachioed, Japanese-fluent American fresh out of Japanese law school, the CIA in Langley, Va., naturally came up. Some thought my name was a joke."
No joke. Langley is now president of Langley & Associates, a relatively new operation (since January) offering services in legal and political, real estate, and in real and virtual Web site design. "It's going well," he says. "Not many can cleanly pull off the political and lobbying stuff. I guess that's where my real strength lies."
Asked how an army brat broke into the corridors of power in Japan, Langley acknowledges it's quite a story. "Home was where the furniture was. With Dad a logistics specialist in the military, we were always on the move."