New International Association of Lawyers President, a Munger Tolles Partner, Puts Democracy, Diversity on Agenda
San Francisco-based Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner Jerome "Jerry" Roth will start his one-year term as president of the Paris-based UIA on Saturday.
November 08, 2019 at 10:49 AM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
Jerome "Jerry" Roth, a San Francisco-based litigation partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, has been elected president of the International Association of Lawyers (UIA), which is based in Paris.
Roth will begin his one-year presidency on Saturday. He is only the fifth U.S. lawyer to be elected as the UIA's president and the first from California in the organisation's 92-year history.
"I have always been interested in foreign cultures, foreign languages. I love everything that is international," said Roth, who specialises in business and international litigation and arbitration, as well as white-collar criminal defense and investigations.
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