"Send Lawyers, Guns and Money: Rebuilding the Afghan Legal System"
with guest speaker Professor Veronica Taylor
We are very excited to have Professor Veronica Taylor, Professor of Law at the University of Washington, as our special guest speaker on June 3rd and to team up with Temple University Japan School of Law in offering one MCLE Credit* to U.S. qualified attorneys who attend this meeting.
What are the prospects of achieving stability and re-building the legal system when 21st century modes of legal technical assistance meet pre-20th century institutions in a conflict setting? To find out, we hope you will join us for Professor Taylor's highly informative and topical presentation.
Date: 3 June 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00 pm Light dinner
8:00 pm Presentation commences
RSVP: fwla.events@gmail.com
FWLA meetings are open to the public. Everyone -- men and women, lawyers and those interested in the law or simply the featured topics of discussion -- are always welcome to attend our meetings so please invite your friends and colleagues to attend this exciting presentation! Guests do not need to accompany a member.
RSVP
Your RSVP is appreciated as it will facilitate our catering arrangements and building security procedures. Please RSVP, if possible, by Monday, June 2nd. If you are unable to RSVP by this date, please see details regarding security procedures, below.
Fee Structure
Members Y3000; Full-Time Student Members Y1500; Non-Members and Guests Y5000; Student Non-Members and Guests (please present ID) Y2000.
The FWLA is very pleased to announce that Simmons & Simmons in association with TMI Associates has graciously invited the FWLA to hold our monthly meeting in its board room on the 23rd Floor of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower.
The best directions to the Roppongi Hills Complex itself are on the Roppongi Hills website:
In English:
http://roppongihills.com/en/access/
http://roppongihills.com/en/map/facilities_map/index.html
In Japanese:
http://roppongihills.com/jp/access/index.html
http://www.roppongihills.com/jp/map/facilities_map/index.html
Once you arrive (whether by subway or taxi or on foot), please make your way to the entrance of the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower. The entrance is on the second floor of the Roppongi Hills Complex in front of the Metro Hat Building, near the large spider sculpture. (For those taking the Hibiya Subway Line, you must take the long escalator up to the second floor of the Complex.) If you enter the Mori Tower from this level, you will find yourself at the Lower Lobby Level ("LL"). Please proceed to the general reception on the LL Level for registration and say that you are visiting Rika Beppu at Simmons & Simmons. After registering, please go through the turnstile marked for visitors (where a security guard is standing) and take the "B" Group of elevators to the 23rd Floor. Once on the 23rd Floor, please follow the signpost to the main reception of Simmons & Simmons and TMI Associates.
To facilitate visitor registration at the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower as well as our catering arrangements, we will be soliciting RSVPs from our members and guests who wish to attend meetings so that we can register the names of the anticipated attendees with the LL reception in advance. RSVPs for this month's meeting should be sent to fwla.events@gmail.com. As it may not always be possible to RSVP in advance given the inherent uncertainties of our jobs and lives, one can attend meetings without a RSVP by bringing two business cards to the LL general reception. If you do not have a business card, please bring another form of identification (such as your passport or alien registration card).
If you have any questions about meetings or the venue and how to get there, please do not call Simmons & Simmons or TMI Associates as they will not be able to respond on behalf of the FWLA. If you have any questions, please email the FWLA at fwla@gol.com or contact any of the executive committee members.
For more information, please contact: fwla@gol.com .
