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The Role of the ABA’s “Summits” in Facilitating Global Networks and International Cross-Border Legal Practice
Southwestern Journal of International Law (2023)
  • Laurel S. Terry
Abstract
 
This Article was written for a Symposium honoring recently-retired Professor Bob Lutz.  It describes fourteen gatherings that were organized by either the ABA Section of International Law’s Transnational Legal Practice Committee or by the predecessor entities to the ABA Standing Committee on International Trade in Legal Services.  Professor Lutz was a driving force behind these gatherings, which were held between 2004 and 2014, and were referred to by the organizers as “Summits.” This Article examines the impact of these Summits and explains why they played a critical role in helping establish global legal profession networks among U.S. legal profession stakeholders and stakeholders from other countries and organizations, including the CCBE. This Article concludes by exploring the lasting legacy of these "Summits" and the networks they helped facilitate.
Keywords
  • ITILS,
  • legal profession networks,
  • Bob Lutz,
  • ABA Summits,
  • Cross Border Legal Practice,
  • CCBE
Publication Date
2023
Citation Information
Laurel S. Terry, The Role of the ABA’s “Summits” in Facilitating Global Networks and International Cross-Border Legal Practice, 28 Southwestern J. Int'l L. 315 (2023), https://works.bepress.com/laurel_terry/104/.