Hull McGuire Shareholder Speaks Before Madrid Business Group
Pittsburgh, 4/10/2003 - Dan Hull, a shareholder
in the Pittsburgh-based law firm of Hull McGuire PC, spoke in Madrid,
Spain on April 3 before members of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce as part
of a conference on “Doing Business in Europe, America and Asia.” Hull,
who is with Hull McGuire’s San Diego office, was one of ten lawyers who
spoke at the conference and one of four who spoke in the American segment.
Sponsorship with International Business Law Consortium
The Madrid event was jointly sponsored by the Madrid Chamber of
Commerce and the International Business Law Consortium (IBLC), an
international law, study and research group, headquartered in Salzburg,
Austria. Other lawyers who spoke at the conference are based in
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico and the United
States.
The IBLC is an arm of the Center for International Legal
Studies, also headquartered in Salzburg, and founded in 1976. The
IBLC consists of 65 law and accounting firms strategically located in
major cities around the world. Hull McGuire is the IBLC’s
Pittsburgh member.
Julie McGuire, a Hull McGuire shareholder and co-founder
based in Pittsburgh, also attended and participated in the conference.
On April 4, in a separate meeting at the Emperatriz Hotel, Madrid, Hull
was elected to the six-person Steering Committee of the Business
Development Group of the IBLC. The business group is
London-based. It promotes work by IBLC member firms for clients
of other IBLC member firms abroad. Current Steering Committee
members are from Mexico, the U.S., Spain, Germany and Australia.
The IBLC membership recently published The International Directory of
Corporate Symbols and Terms. The book, which can be obtained
from member firms, translates into English, defines and comments upon
corporate symbols and selected business terminology used in twenty-eight
countries. Hull McGuire and the law firm of Busse & Miessen,
of Bonn, Germany, serve as General Editors of the directory.
