Client Training Program

From time to time we enter into arrangements with attorneys and intellectual property professionals who work for client companies located outside of the United States. We invite them to spend some time with us at our Washington, DC office as part of our Foreign Trainee Program. While here, we work with each trainee, exposing them to the full range of our practice through hands-on experience. Once an attorney returns home, this first-hand knowledge will better enable him or her to advise our client on the ramifications of dealing with U.S. businesses, as well as on the legal issues attendant to intellectual property and its export to, or import from, the United States.

We believe that this experience proves invaluable both to the individual foreign attorney, as well as to our client – his or her employer. However, we see this as a mutual education process, so in sponsoring this program we are also significantly benefited. Through our Foreign Trainee Program we learn about how business is conducted outside of the United States. We also gain valuable sensitivity and insight into the culture, mores and operations of our clients, enabling us to provide better and more effective service to all of our clients.