Stimulating discussions over good cuisine with people from all over the globe. Intellectual appreciation of cultural differences and comparison of legal structures. A way to contribute to job creation and national and international economic strength. Also, the entire world economy for a subject, from goods and services to investment, intellectual property and competition policy. Jet lag accumulates.
Cases can be long on facts and short on law, and the laws seem nonsensical.
Translation slows progress, language differences hinder communication, and deadlines are short and hard to meet. Government decision-makers may seem more concerned with their own convenience than yours. If so, here s how most trade lawyers actually spend their time. U.S. trade lawyers practice, for the most part, U.S. law. Some of the U.S. trade remedies have a foundation in international agreements, but it U.S. law that controls antidumping, countervailing duty, escape clause, unfair import competition, section 301, national security and trade preferences cases.