Firm Holds Seminar for Lawyers Visiting from The Peoples Republic of China

On April 11, 2006, the firm conducted a seminar for fourteen lawyers of the Peoples Republic of China. The visit was coordinated by Mr. Daniel Yu of New York University’s Global Law faculty, which translated course materials and provided specialists in Chinese-English legal terminology to assist in the seminar.

William M. Brodsky, who leads the firm's criminal defense practice, described for the participants the role of a defense lawyer in criminal proceedings brought before Federal District Courts of the United States.

Robert C. Mangone, who heads the firm's securities practice, described the role of American Depository Receipts in raising capital for foreign companies from sources in the United States.

Donald T. Fox discussed the United Nations Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 1966 and signed both by China and by the United States. He also discussed the U.N. Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary and on the Role of the Lawyer. These Basic Principles had been elaborated in a 1989 conference in Caracas, Venezuela, sponsored by the United Nations and conducted by the International Commission of Jurists, a non-governmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, whose mission is to uphold the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary and human rights. Mr. Fox participated in this conference as Chairman of the United States Section of the International Commission of Jurists.