Welcome to the International Law & Practice Section

Section News & Notes NCBA Attorney Exchange Program Applications for the next Exchange to Lithuania and Latvia scheduled for May 11-23, 2012, are now being accepted. (Deadline is March 5, click here for the application; for more information click here.) Click here to learn more about past Exchanges. Message from the Chair Click here to read the letter from the Section Chair. Meet your Section Leadership Click here to get to know the Section leaders. Committee Sign-up Form Click here to join a Section Committee.

The International Law & Practice Section draws its members from a wide array of practice areas. The common thread is our members' interest in international legal issues as well as international affairs. Attorneys practicing in the transactional areas, immigration/employment law, in-house representation and general business, among others, have been mainstays of our Section since its inception.

Recognizing that North Carolina is an integral part of the world economy, our members rely on the Section for maintaining contacts that are valuable in their practices and awareness of trends in the global marketplace that will impact them and their clients.

We invite all members of the Bar Association to participate in our Section, whether they devote a significant or only a small portion of their practice to international law matters. It's a group that you will enjoy and of which you will be glad to be part.

The section, with currently 173 members, sponsors CLE programs and services; provides members with a substantive newsletter; and helps mold the association's legislative agenda for presentation to the N.C. General Assembly. The newsletter, International Law, offers an index of its articles and CLE topics.

The International Law & Practice Section's website includes the following information:

Calendar - contains a listing of Section Council meeting dates, Section Annual meeting dates, and other Section-related events dates, locations, times, and event descriptions.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) - contains section-specific Continuing Legal Education (CLE) information including upcoming programs and publications when available.

Governance - contains the International Law & Practice section's governing documents including the purpose statement and bylaws.

Join/Renew - contains an online application form for joining this section.

Leadership - contains information from the section's leadership including the section officers, section council, committee chairs, and meeting minutes when available.

Newsletters - contains the section's newsletters, which may be password-protected as determined by the section leadership.

Resources - contains section-specific legal resources including access to Casemaker / PJI, online links / references, publications (e.g., forms, brochures, booklets, etc.), articles, legislative issues, and other information when available.

NCBA - Information about the North Carolina Bar Association's leaders, staff contacts, map/driving tools, and links to other sections, divisions as well as NCBA's home page.