Monday this week, the International Law Society, in conjunction with the Office of Career Planning held an even giving students a look into certain career paths in international business.
Guests included Eve Sharon Associate General Counsel of Ask.com and Christine Huffling, Associate for Winston and Strong LLP.
The attorneys agreed that the practice of international law in US companies is generally an advisorial roll in transactional or arbitrational law.
Though they mentioned that being bi-lingual made certain tasks easier they stressed that English is the lingua franca of international business.
Helping the integration of Common Law American lawyers into Civil Law European systems for either long term or short term work was also said to be, somewhat counter-intuitively, quite easily. The panel agreed this was likely due to the fact that there are few ways to maximize profit in an integrated international market system. This isn't to say that litigation is similar or familiar only that the substantive law governing business isn't wildly divergent.
The biggest and most well received revelation of the night, by far, was when Ms. Sharon informed us: "Forget everything you know from law school."
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