Please feel free to forward the newsletter to your colleagues and clients.

SUCCESS STORIES

LAW Web Site = New Business

The LAW Web site was responsible for a wonderful new client for Peter Johns of Peter A. Johns & Associates, our LAW member in France. A major Internet news provider in France was looking for an international network that could assist in setting up new companies in the US and Europe. After looking through the LAW Web site, the company contacted Peter, and he has been retained to help with the expansion, which should also result in some work for other LAW members.

As a follow up, I wanted to note two requests:

(1) Please review your firm’s listing on the LAW site and make certain it contains the correct information about your firm and its capabilities. Clients DO visit Web sites!

(2) If you have a similar experience to report about inquiries from the LAW Web site, please contact me at sallyschmidt@schmidt-marketing.com.

LAW REGIONAL AND ANNUAL MEETINGS

CHAIRMAN'S CORNER

DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA WORKSHOP

This year’s meeting of the Asia Pacific Region of Lawyers Associated Worldwide will have an added dimension. In addition to the focus on work generation and best practices that will take place at each of our regional meetings, the Asia Pacific meeting in Hong Kong (May 5-7) will feature a “Doing Business in China” Workshop. Legal and business experts are being lined up with the assistance of Christine M. Koo & Ip, Solicitors & Notaries, our host for the meeting, to discuss such topics as finding the right business partner(s), choosing the most appropriate form of legal entity, current government/regulatory issues, protecting your intellectual property rights, and alternative forums for dispute resolution.

This should be an exciting and informative meeting, so be sure that the date is in your calendar and that a representative of your firm will attend, particularly if you are a member of the Asia Pacific Region. Members from outside the region are also welcome, and you might even consider bringing a client that is interested in doing business in China. More specific information will be coming in the following weeks along with your registration materials for the meeting.

Sincerely,

Christopher C. McCracken
ULMER & BERNE LLP
Cleveland, Ohio USA

RECRUITING

LEGAL UPDATES

E-mail Retention

As e-mail has become the communication method of choice for most businesses, the legal consequences of e-mail retention have correspondingly grown in importance. E-mail is a possible source of liability to businesses arising from both the contents of the communications themselves and the failure to properly manage them.

William Savarino and Rowena Laxa of LAW member Cohen Mohr in Washington, DC have contributed an article to the LAW Web site, entitled: E-mail Retention: How Much Risk Can You Afford? To see their article, visit this link: http://www.lawyersworldwide.com/content/homepage_articles/legaldev-email_retention.html.

PRACTICE GROUP INFORMATION

• Click on “member log-in” (upper right corner of home page)
• Sign in to member site with your own name and email address. Use the universal password. Contact Hallie Mann at halliemann@schmidt-marketing.com if you need the password.
• Click on Practice Group tab.
• Click on the practice group you are interested in to access their web page and then click on the “join” link in the upper right hand corner.

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• Commercial and Complex Litigation

COMMITTEE MEETING SCHEDULE

Executive Committee

The next telephone conference of the Executive Committee will be held on Tuesday, March 15 at 12:00 GMT.

MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Web Site in New Orleans

Rodger Wheaton of LAW member firm Lugenbuhl, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard in New Orleans, LA reports, “After several dot com booms and busts we have updated our web page.” Visit the firm’s new site at www.lawla.com.

LEGAL SOCIETY MEETINGS

American Society of International Law

Over 1,000 leaders in international law will gather this spring in Washington, DC at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law on March 30 - April 2, 2005. The meeting offers a chance to meet international law leaders, network with peers, and hear from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, General Brent Scowcroft, WIPO Deputy Director Francis Gurry, and five original members of the WTO Appellate Body who will discuss their institution as a group for the first time. To learn more about the program, visit the ASIL's homepage at www.asil.org.