Embargo-related legal issues arise frequently in connection with the humanitarian work carried out by World Vision in approximately 90 countries around the world. Timothy R. Lyman is a partner in the Hartford, Connecticut, office of Day, Berry & Howard, LLP, where he heads the firm's Nonprofit Institutions Practice Group. In this capacity and as President of the Day, Berry & Howard Foundation ("promoting positive developments in the law, legal scholarship and legal education"), he is a frequent consultant and speaker internationally on various legal issues pertaining to nonprofit organizations and relief and development work, particularly microfinance law.