BIC International Trade in Legal Services Committee

The International Trade in Legal Services Committee's mandate is to monitor the work of the WTO globally and provide information and guidance to Bar Associations and Law Societies to answer questions potentially raised by trade negotiators from their own countries.

The Regulation of International Trade in Legal Services  

IBA Global Cross Border Legal Services Report

IBA Global Cross Border Legal Services Report

As economies have become more global, the demand for global cross-border legal services has grown significantly. Increasingly governments are pursuing trade agendas designed to break down barriers to cross-border trade, including in relation to the legal profession. For over 15 years the International Bar Association (IBA) Council, the global voice of the legal profession, has responded to this trend by taking a leading role in providing guidance on the responsible delivery of cross-border legal services. IBA Global Regulation and Trade in Legal Services Report 2014 is part of that initiative.

The report is the result of an ambitious task undertaken by the IBA International Trade in Legal Services Committee to compile data on regulation of domestic and cross-border legal practice in over 90 countries, or over 160 jurisdictions. The result is a rich and detailed body of information. 

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IBA Global Cross Border Legal Services Report

Legal services and climate change paper

This is an information paper prepared by the IBA’s Bar Issues Commission’s International Trade in Legal Services Committee for member bars of the IBA, to alert them to the impact of climate change on issues affecting the regulation and practice of lawyers. Climate change is considered by many as one of the biggest threats facing the future of life on our planet, and its impact is beginning to be felt everywhere, including on bars and lawyers. This paper is a committee product for information purposes and therefore has not been adopted by the IBA.

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Committee officers

Iain Sandford

Chair

Firm Address
Sidley Austin LLP Rue-du-Pré-de-la-Bichette 1
Geneva
Switzerland
1202
Mfon Ekong Usoro

Vice Chair

Firm Address
Paul Usoro & Co 7th Floor, Plot 999C Danmole Street
P. O. Box 71605 Victoria Island
Lagos
Nigeria
101241
Charlotte Stubbs

Secretary

Firm Address
Law Council of Australia Level 1, MODE3
24 Lonsdale Street
Canberra
Australia
2612
Fiona McLeod AO KC

Liaison Officer

Firm Address
Victorian Bar Fiona McLeod AO SC c/- AJ Dever
205 William Street
Melbourne
Australia
3000
Morry Bailes

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Tindall Gask Bentley 76 Light Square
Adelaide
Australia
5000
Stevan Dimitrijevic

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Dimitrijevic & Partners Sime Šolaje 1
Banja Luka
Bosnia-Herzegovina
78000
George Etomi

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
George Etomi & Partners No 1 2nd Street
Osbourne Poreshore Estate, Ikoyi
Lagos
Nigeria
Thierry Gakuba Ngoga

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Legal Line Partners 32, KG9, MTN Centre Building( 2nd Floor),
Kigali
Rwanda
1837 Kigali
Jonathan Goldsmith

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
European & International Legal Services Consultant .
Brussels
Belgium
1040
Hans-Juergen Hellwig

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Hengeler Mueller Bockenheimer Landstrasse 24
Frankfurt
Germany
60323
Alonso Hernández-Pinzón García

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
European Lawyers Foundation Fluwelen Burgwal 58
Gravenhage
Netherlands
2511CJ
Alison Hook

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Hook Tangaza 20 Little Britain
London
England
EC1A 7DH
Eric Jiaxi Jiang

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Jingtian & Gongcheng 34th Floor, Tower 3, China Central Place
77 Jianguo Road
Chaoyang District
Beijing
China
100025
Akira Kawamura

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Otemachi Park Building,
1-1-1 Otemachi,
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo
Japan
100-8136
Iain George Miller

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Kingsley Napley 20 Bonhill Street
London
England
EC2A 4DN
Juan Javier Negri

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Negri & Pueyrredon Abogados Montevideo 850 - 1st Floor
Buenos Aires
Argentina
C1019ABR
Maria Slazak

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Slazak& Partners Law Office Kościuszki 5b/1
83-200 Starogard Gd.
Starogard Gdanski
Poland
83-200
Lucas Spadano

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Madrona Fialho Advogados Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3064
11th floor
São Paulo
Brazil
01451-000
Laurel S Terry

Co-opted Member

Firm Address
Penn State Dickinson Law 150 S. College St.
Carlisle
USA
17013

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