I got an e-mail the other day from a Connecticut lawyer who is in a country in Africa. He and his partner are there working on a business plan to offer legal services to small business owners in both Africa and the United States who want to do business together. They may be onto something.
At a recent seminar in Chicago, Professor Laurel Terry spoke about the globalization of legal services and the need for the bar to prepare to accommodate the needs of foreign lawyers who wish to serve the needs of their business clients in the United States. Terry has been banging this drum for years concerning the effects of GATS, NAFTA and the 14 other treaties which give the right to foreign professionals to follow business to the United States the same way we allow lawyers from neighboring states to visit here for “temporary and occasional” legal business under the multijurisdictional practice regime.
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