Fourteen firms have reported an interest in having a lawyer exchange, including new members in Bangladesh and China. Firms are asked to let the Committee know if they have a member of staff who wants to seek an exchange. These details are then circulated around those members of TerraLex who have expressed an interest. E-mail now makes it easier to circulate details. Members are asked to contact the Committee Chairman, Ron Norman, giving details of the proposed exchange, so that he may ask further questions and then circulate the full details to all members.
Most exchanges are for a minimum period of three months.
It was agreed that a previous statement as to the work of the Committee should be circulated to all members attending for them to comment on the work of the Committee and conditions for lawyer exchanges that should be specified. When all parties have commented on the statement, it would then be circulated to all TerraLex members in the hope that they would be encouraged to make further lawyer exchanges and notify the Committee of any that have taken place. Among the considerations were whether there would be proper work for the intern to do, that one should agree in advance the type of work he should do, whether he should be paid a salary, the length of the secondment and some exchanges might be for more than one firm. Language abilities should also be considered. It was agreed that possibly TerraLex might consider some financial contribution towards the cost of such exchanges.