Customs, Trade and Transportation

Andrew Hudson, a Partner in the Melbourne office of Hunt & Hunt, has a “particular interest” in Customs, Trade and Transport matters and has launched an Interlaw Special Business Team for fellow Interlawyers to join forces. He has distributed a comprehensive flyer that provides an overview to the industries and practice groups involved, which you may access by request, andrew.hudson@hunthunt.com.au. You may also access his latest publications regarding investment provisions of Australia’s proposed FTA with the US and a separate article in Shipping Australia about some anti-dumping changes. Mr. Hudson has contributed an article in this issue of The Interlawyer.

European IP/IT Special Business Team

"Adding Value to IP Assets" is the theme of the European IP/IT Group meeting in Madrid, on 20 May 2004. Luis Fernandez Novoa of Gomez Acebo & Pombo, as host, is arranging an agenda to include presentations on IP litigation across the EU, in the light of further harmonisation; and also on the new Technology Transfer Block Exemption. Thomas Janssen of Bongen Renaud, and Lorne Byatt Lorne.Byatt@Morton-Fraser.com, co-chairs of the European IP/IT Group, encourage your inquiries.

Marketing Professionals

Interlaw marketing partners and professionals have participated in teleconferences in each region in order to plan the annual face to face meeting 15-16 April in Dallas hosted by Thompson & Knight. Becky Jackson, Becky.jackson@tklaw.com is shaping a robust agenda that is focused on pooling the confidential brain trusts of fellow professionals to expand business beyond ones own jurisdiction. Click here for the invitation and registration form.

NARE

The North American Real Estate Group will meet in Miami April 30-May 2 in conjunction with the Regional Meeting of the Americas, hosted by Akerman Senterfitt. Lloyd Cornet, lcornett@airdberlis.com. Following a substantive program including newest legal developments as well as a marketing panel, the group will tour an Akerman client project.

Women Interlawyers (Rainmakers)

Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmarro’s Cathy Holmes, cholmes@jmbm.com who chairs the special business team comprised of senior women attorneys of Interlaw firms in the Western Hemisphere has set March 24 for the next teleconference to set the agenda for the second annual meeting tentatively scheduled for early October.

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