Philadelphia Lawyer Gene M. Burd Appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association International
Gene M. Burd, Managing director of the Kyiv office of the Law Firm of Marks, Sokolov & Burd has been appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association International Law Russia/Eurasia Committee.
[USPRwire, Mon Aug 16 2010] Philadelphia lawyer Gene M. Burd has been appointed Vice Chair of the American Bar Association International Law Russia/Eurasia Committee. He has also been appointed a member of the Steering Group for the International Litigation Committee of the ABA Section of International Law.
Gene M. Burd is a Managing Director of the Kyiv, Ukraine office of the law firm of Marks, Sokolov & Burd. He focuses his practice on representation of private clients in commercial disputes involving Russia and Ukraine including global litigation management, litigation in the United States, and international commercial arbitration. Among his major accomplishments are: successful defense of an Ohio steel mill against a contract claim in the ICC arbitration in Paris, representation of minority shareholders of a major Ukrainian ferroalloy plant in the diversion of profits claim filed in a US court, defense of a US coal trading company in an ICC arbitration in Geneva. Mr. Burd also represented international client in a number of transactional and investment matters. He is fully Russian/English bilingual.
Mr. Burd served as an Adjunct Professor at the Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey where he taught a course in International Litigation. Mr. Burd is a past co-chair of the International Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He also represents the firm at the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Ukraine Business Council, an organization dedicated to the development of business links between the United States and Ukraine.
The ABA Section of International Law, which has more than 20,000 members in 90 countries, is the leader in the development of policy in the international arena, the promotion of the rule of law, and the education of international law practitioners. It focuses on the full range of international legal issues and is involved in a wide variety of substantive legal activities. The Section seeks to promote and further the development of interest, activity, and research in international and comparative law and related areas; to promote knowledge and formulate professional opinion of international law among members of the legal profession and others; to promote professional relationships with lawyers similarly engaged in foreign countries; and to advance the rule of law in the world. The Section has numerous task forces and more than 60 regional and special interest committees within 12 divisions — Africa/Eurasia, Americas/Middle East, Business Regulation, Constituent, Corporate, Disputes, Finance, Industries, Legal Practice, Public International Law, International Treaties, and Tax, Estates & Individuals — to closely monitor and disseminate information on domestic and international policy developments with implications for law practice.
With more than 413,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world. As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.
About Marks, Sokolov & Burd, LLC
Marks, Sokolov & Burd is an international law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Moscow, Russia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. Under the direction of Bruce Marks, Managing Director, the firm provides a full range of international litigation and arbitration services to Russian and Ukrainian businesses and individuals in the United States and international clients throughout the world. Marks, Sokolov & Burd is known for its extensive experience in handling transactions for Western clients doing business in Russia and Ukraine and Russian/Ukrainian clients doing business internationally.
