LAWYER FEATURE - MARK MOORSTEIN
| Thanks to Mark Moorstein (assisted initially by Rob Cunningham and Mariam Tadros), Rees Broome is listed with firms like Akin Gump, Baker McKenzie, Covington, Dechert, Jones Day and Skadden Arps in the 2011 Report of the International Senior Lawyers Project. ISLP is a private group, funded and staffed by volunteer firms and attorneys, which works internationally to "promote human rights, sustainable economic development and the rule of law world-wide." Mark went to Cambodia in late 2010 to help local farmers who had been thrown off their land by companies that expropriated it to grow sugar for export. Government corruption was a contributing factor. Mark developed a legal theory involving illegal eviction that eventually brought the case to trial not in Cambodia, where the courts are controlled by the government, but in British trial courts. He also was able to avoid specialized international "human rights courts," which present significant barriers for impoverished litigants. Jones Day, one of the largest law firms in the world, is currently litigating the case in the UK. |
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