Previous Events & CLE Programs
March 12, 2008
Committee Meeting
Finding Legal Work in Boston: An Employer's Perspective
Join recruiting professionals Christie Wilson, Goodwin Procter LLP, and Katherine Kelly, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP to discuss what employers look for when recruiting attorneys.
January 29, 2008
Committee Meeting
Finding Legal Work in Boston Part 1
Join us as we discuss finding work for foreign lawyers in Boston. Topics will include:
- Bar Admission for Foreign Lawyers - Civil vs Common law education and procedural issues with the BBA
- Registering as a Foreign Legal Consultant
- Fee Sharing with MA Lawyers
November 27, 2007
Committee Meeting
Visas for Foreign Lawyers
Steve Clark, of Flynn & Clark, P.C., will conduct a special program to assist foreign lawyers in navigating the temporary and permanent visa process. Specifically, he will explain:
- the steps for obtaining F-1 Student Visa Optional Practical Training;
- H-1B Employment or J-1 Training Visas;
- E or TN Visa;
- PERM Labor Certification;
- The I-140 Visa Petition; and
- I-485 or Consular Processing for Permanent Residence.
He will also discuss:
- challenges of Bar Admission;
- the surprising obstacles posed by internships;
- the use of job experience;
- the impact of career choices to Specialize in Foreign Law, Foreign Clients, or US Law; and
- taking a Permanent Job with US firm you have interned or clerked with.
October 30, 2007
Committee Meeting
Doing International Business with Massachusetts Companies
Christa Bleyleben, Executive Director of Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment, and Paula Murphy, Director of the Massachusetts Export Center, will discuss how they assist Massachusetts companies doing inbound and outbound international business.
September 17, 2007
Committee Event
Fall Welcome Reception
The Foreign Lawyers Committee of the Boston Bar Association is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend an informal reception for foreign-trained lawyers in the Greater Boston area.
This will be a great opportunity to meet people, exchange ideas, discuss current issues, and learn more about the benefits of participating in the BBA Foreign Lawyers Committee.
We encourage you to pass along this invitation toforeign lawyers
at your firm or if you are an LLM student, we encourage you to
pass along this invitation to your fellow students.
March 27, 2007
Committee Meeting
Roy Watson, former Chair of the BBA Immigration Law Committee, will outline the legal framework under which foreign lawyers are permitted to work in the US.
February 22, 2007
Committee Meeting
Foreign Lawyer Admission to the Massachusetts Bar
Gregory Osakwe, originally from Nigeria, recently petitioned the SJC in connection with his application to sit for the MA bar exam. The Court found that his common-law legal education and his LLM was sufficient to enable him to sit for the exam.
Mr. Osakwe will discuss his education, legal career, petition and why he chose to file.
November 28, 2006
Committee Meeting
Recent Issues in the Acquisition of UK Businesses
James Tarling, a partner at the UK law firm Steeles LLP, will discuss a variety of recent legislation, case law and practice that will affect UK business acquisitions. Focusing on issues where there is a different approach in the UK, he will discuss many topics affecting the acquisitions of UK businesses including:
- The Company Law Act 2006
- The new TUPE regulations covering the automatic transfer of employees on an asset sale
- Recent employment law developments
- Current interpretation of privacy and data protection legislation
- The Freedom of Information legislation and possible future developments
- Anti-money laundering regulations
October 31, 2006
Committee Meeting
Legal Outsourcing to India -- Ethical and Jurisdictional Issues
**This meeting is co-sponsored with the International Transactions Committee**
Marilyn Primiano, Business Head - Legal Business Process Outsourcing, of Datamatics Technologies, Limited, will discuss the key issues involved in outsourcing legal work to India.
Topics will include:
- History of legal outsourcing
- Type of work being outsourced
- Regulation of Indian lawyers
- Jurisdictional and Ethical Issues
September 26, 2006
Committee Meeting
Foreign Companies Entering the U.S. Market - 9/26/06
**This meeting is co-sponsored with the International Transactions Committee and Bankruptcy Young Lawyers Committee**
Harald Horgen, CEO of York Group International, will discuss some of the key business issues facing foreign companies that are planning to enter the U.S. market.
Topics will include:
- What makes the U.S. such a compelling market
- Why the U.S. is the wrong choice for many companies – the ABBA strategy
- Initial market selection – don’t treat the U.S. as a single market
- A brief overview of market entry options
- Key success factors
September 7, 2006
Committee Event
Welcome Reception
The Foreign Lawyers Committee of the Boston Bar Association is pleased to invite you and your colleagues to attend an informal reception for foreign-trained lawyers in the Greater Boston area.
This will be a great opportunity to meet people within your professional field, exchange ideas, discuss current issues, and learn more about the benefits of participating in the BBA Foreign Lawyers Committee.
We encourage you to pass along this invitation to foreign lawyers at your firm or if you are a student member, we encourage you to pass along this invitation to your fellow students.
May 30, 2006
Committee Meeting
Dominance and Harmonization of Regulatory Policy in International Finance
Stavros Gkantinis, SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, will discuss his research Dominance and Harmonization of Regulatory Policy in International Finance.
About his research:
Harmonization o f diverse regulatory regimes in financial services ranks highly on the international political agenda, because regulatory differences raise severe challenges in a world of ever-increasing cross-border financial activity. Conventional theories of harmonization treat U.S. dominance as uniformly strong across various financial markets. Contrary to these approaches, Mr. Gkantinis agrues that harmonization success or failure depends on the interaction of two variables: the degree o f dominance (whether strong competitors to U.S. firms and markets challenge U.S. dominance), as well as activity concentration (whether activity is concentrated at a central facility, such as a stock exchange, or diffused around the world).
April 27, 2006
Committee Meeting
Immigration Law Issues for Foreign Lawyers
Roy J. Watson, Jr., Co-Chair of the Immigration Law Committee will outline the legal framework under which foreign lawyers are permitted to work in the US.
March 28, 2006
Committee Meeting
Sitting for the Massachusetts Bar Exam as a Foreign Lawyer
Michael N. Glanz, Foley Hoag LLP, and Katherine M. Sikora Nelson, KPMG LLP, will discuss the process by which lawyers with foreign law degrees are allowed to sit for the Massachusetts Bar Exam.
March 6, 2006
Committee Meeting
EU Financial Markets Regulatory Reforms
Kilvar Kessler, a Hubert H. Humphrey fellow at the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law of the Boston University School of Law, will discuss recent developments in EU financial market regulation and legislative procedure, including reflections on EU core principles and future efforts to build the EU single market.
February 14, 2006
Committee Meeting
Arbitration - Interplay Among Conventions, Laws, Rules & Clauses
William W. ("Rusty") Park, an R. Gordon Butler Scholar in International Law and a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, will explore the interplay between the N.Y. Convention, the Federal Arbitration Act, state law, arbitral institution rules, and the arbitration clause in a case where all potentially apply.
The program should be of practical value to both arbitrators and lawyers acting as counsel in arbitrations and arbitration-related litigation.
IDR Committee member Mary Allen Wilkes will chair the program.
November 29, 2005
Committee Meeting
Current Antitrust law issues in Mexico
Alejandro Mendiola, Head of the Corporate and Antitrust Practice of the Mexican law firm of Arochi, Marroquin & Lindner, S.C., will address various issues relating to the Mexican Antitrust Law, including recent case law and the current discussion in the Mexican Congress to amend the law. His presentation will also highlight some of the current issues in the M&A arena.
October 25, 2005
Committee Meeting
Limitation of Liability in Foreign Jurisdictions
We will discuss the extent to which parties can agree on contractual limitation of liability clauses in agreements in different jurisdictions. We will also examine whether provisions that violate statutory enactments will be held to be void ab initio, or whether courts developed a more flexible approach to statutory illegality by severing the illegal provisions and enforcing the remainder (the so-called “blue pencil rule”).
Our speakers will cover different jurisdictions such as Argentina, England, France, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Switzerland.
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