Our legal education work with lawyers and judges on five continents reflects three major trends wesee: the growing importance of international public law; the gradual strengthening of civil society; and theexpansion of the concept of pro bono legal services to new jurisdictions. These trends are helpingimprove the soundness of legal systems. Our ability to open doors to best practice and acceptedstandards helps lawyers and legal institutions in emerging democracies avoid reinventing the wheel.In 2012, we did our most substantive work to date.

Haiti: Arbitration training

In June, partner Ank Santens and associate Damien Nyer from New York and partner Charles Nairacfrom Paris conducted a week-long workshop on best practices in arbitration for Haitian lawyers andjudges in Port-au-Prince. Our lawyers led the course, which consisted of theoretical modules andpractical exercises conducted in French. Participants included a Court of Appeals judge, the Presidentof the Port-au-Prince Court of First Instance and senior members of the Haitian bar. This effort isparticularly meaningful for Haiti as the country seeks to use its new arbitration law and arbitral institutionto promote alternative dispute resolution and increase foreign investment in what remains the poorestcountry in the Western Hemisphere. The courses were organized in collaboration with the Chambre deConciliation et d’Arbitrage d’Haiti (CCAH) and the International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP). Followingthe well-received courses, CCAH and ISLP asked White & Case to revise CCAH’s Rules of Arbitrationand to organize a further seminar on arbitration for the Haitian judiciary.

Sierra Leone: Project Umubano

Sierra Leone is still recovering from its devastating ten-year civil war, which left its legal system starvedof government focus and financial support. This July, London associates Marcus Booth and StefanMrozinski participated in Project Umubano, an international social action project founded by UK PrimeMinister David Cameron. Our lawyers coordinated a group of nine barristers, solicitors and law studentsfrom across the UK who provided training for Sierra Leonean lawyers and paralegals and advised oncases for Timap for Justice, a non-governmental organization that provides free legal services throughcommunity-based paralegals. The Sierra Leonean Solicitor General and other top government officialslent support to the project, which is developing important legal infrastructure around the country. Aserendipitous meeting illustrates the breadth of the Firm’s reach on legal capacity projects. While workingwith Timap, Marcus and Stefan met a summer intern from New York University Law School who,coincidentally, was in Sierra Leone on a White & Case Orison Marden Fellowship, a summer internship

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Transparent and efficient capital markets are critical to growth and innovation, and good guidance onrules and procedures is particularly vital in emerging markets. White & Case was invited byGuarantCo—a multi-donor agency whose members include the UK’s Department for InternationalDevelopment, Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the Netherlands’ Directorate-Generalfor International Cooperation and Sweden’s International Development Cooperation Agency—to providetraining to the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission on regulation of the corporate bondmarket. Partner Melissa Butler and associate Chris Horte traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, where they, alongwith representatives of Moody’s Rating Service, provided training for senior management at the divisionof the Nigerian SEC that regulates the debt markets. The focus was on creating capacity to help Nigeriamove the corporate bond market from its current embryonic stage to a more active and developed one.

Kenya: Trial advocacy skills

Continuing our partnership with Lawyers Without Borders, London associates Rian Matthews andHendrik Puschmann participated as senior faculty members in the Support Through Trial AdvocacyTraining program in Nairobi, Kenya. The program explored the new Kenyan constitution adopted in 2010and the country’s anti-corruption statute through a case file focused on gender violence with a corruptionoverlay. Attendees included 30 magistrate judges, 54 lawyers and prosecutors and 15 participants beingtrained to lead subsequent sessions. Innovative learning technology was incorporated, including videosegments to address evidentiary and other special challenges facing the Kenyan trial bar.

COMESA: Nineteen countries enhance competition

We partnered with the International Institute for Advanced Studies to advise the 19 countries thatcomprise the common market for Eastern and Southern Africa—COMESA—on issues of competitionlaw. COMESA is a supranational organization on the model of the EU, which in 2004 instituted its regionalcompetition act and accompanying procedural regulations. The COMESA Competition Commission(CCC) decided to adopt implementing legislation and guidelines to provide more specific guidance to bothauthorities and the business community, raise awareness of competition issues and prepare the groundfor actual enforcement of the competition act. Partner and Pro Bono Practice Leader Ian Forrester and ateam of associates advised on competition law from a European point of view. Brussels associatePascal Berghe participated in workshops with the CCC, in Lusaka, Zambia, and at White & Case’sJohannesburg office. We are also helping to draft guidelines that will explain how competition law will beapplied to typical agreements between competitors or between suppliers and customers, or to allegedabuses of market power by dominant companies.

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