LAW SCHOOL FORUM TO EXPLORE GLOBALIZATION OF LAW PRACTICE

Tuesday, September 7, 1999 WRITER: Kathy R. Pharr, (706) 542-5172, pharr@arches.uga.edu CONTACT: Gabriel Wilner, (706) 542-5238 LAW SCHOOL FORUM TO EXPLORE GLOBALIZATION OF LAW PRACTICE Athens, Ga. - The practice of law is expanding as the world around us gets smaller, and on Friday and Saturday, September 17-18, several influential international law attorneys will focus their attention on the globalization of the legal profession in a forum with law students at the University of Georgia. The Colloquium on the Transnationalization of Law Practice and Its Impact on the Legal Profession: Prospects for Young Lawyers, to be held in the law school\u27s Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, is open free to the public. The colloquium will run from 2:30-5 p.m. on Friday the 17th, and from 10 a.m. - noon on Saturday the 18th. Participants include: Don Johnson, the former U.S. Congressman from Georgia who now serves as chief textile negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Audrey Winter, associate general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; New York attorney Alan Sutin; Washington, D.C. attorneys Kenneth Klein, John Carr and Ted Kassinger; and Atlanta attorney June Lee Towery. All are alumni of the UGA School of Law. In addition, Associate Dean and Kirbo Professor Gabriel Wilner and Professor Rick Huszagh will serve as moderators. Our goal is to encourage law students about their prospects for exciting, rewarding careers in international practice, said Wilner, colloquium organizer. These successful alumni will demonstrate to the students that those opportunities exist. The colloquium format will be informal, with each speaker making brief remarks, then fielding questions from faculty moderators and audience members. The colloquium is sponsored by International and Graduate Legal Studies, the Georgia Society of International and Comparative Law (a law student organization), and the law school\u27s Office of Legal Career Services. A reception in the law school rotunda and dinner in Dean Rusk Hall will follow Friday afternoon\u27s session of the colloquium