I'm glad you asked. I noticed that the Michelle/Dohrn entry in The Obama File had no link.
Here is a good account:
While at Sidley & Austin (1989-1991), Michelle would
meet the terrorist, Bernadine Dohrn, who helped bomb something like 25 targets, including the Capitol and the Pentagon.
Dohrn was working at the firm as a result of the recommendation of the CEO of Chicago's power company, Tom Ayers. His son, the unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, ran the organization that put up the money to bring Obama to Chicago in the first place.
Ayers' father, Thomas Ayers, was CEO of Commonwealth Edison as well as a trustee of Tribune Co. and chairman of the board of Northwestern University.
Dohrn was hired by . . ."the powerhouse firm of Sidley Austin." The very same law firm where Barack Obama was hired as a summer associate after his first year at Harvard Law School. Where he met Michelle, his future wife. And just how did that coincidence happen?
Trienens headed Sidley Austin when the firm hired Dohrn in 1984. She had never practiced law and had been out of law school for 17 years.
When I asked Trienens if he had hired Dohrn, he replied: "Yes."
Wasn't that a bit of nepotism, considering his relationship to her father-in-law? A lot of lawyers would love a first job with such a prestigious firm.
"We often hire friends," replied Trienens, 84.
Dohrn had not practiced law and been out of law school for 17 years while she was oh so busy doing, uh, other things,
Dohrn wasn't licensed to practice law. Though she passed the bar exam, the ethics committee turned her down because of her rap sheet. That limited the type of work she could do at Sidley Austin, which she left after a few years.
"Dohrn didn't get a license because she's stubborn," Trienens said. "She wouldn't say she's sorry."
The Obama File