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We Specialize in Solving Legal Challenges Faced By International Nonprofits
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LAUREN HOMER -- MANAGING PARTNER
Lauren has focused on the international representation of US-based nonprofit, faith-based, and religious organizations for over 20 years, following a 13 year career in high stakes corporate litigation. She has extensive and unique experience with the laws of a wide range of foreign countries. Her speciality is providing answers and options for organizations operating across national boundaries, in light of the complex and constantly changing laws of the US and other nations regulating tax exempt and religious or faith-based organizations and their employees.
Lauren was involved in many "firsts" for non-governmental organizations seeking to work in Russia and other former Soviet republics in the early 1990's. She has worked with clients in Africa, Asia, East Asia, South and Central America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. She has long and in depth experience in Russia and in the greater China Region, including the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.
Degrees & Honors: Duke University (BA 1967), Cambridge University (Research Student 1968-69), Yale University (MCP 1970), Columbia University Law School (JD 1977) (Managing Editor of the Columbia Law Review, Stone Scholar). She has published numerous articles in law reviews, academic journals, and other publications.
Legal Experience: Law Clerk to the Honorable Shirley M. Hufstedler, Judge on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals and Special Assistant to Judge Hufstedler when she served as the first U.S. Secretary of Education. Lauren was an associate attorney at both Wilmer Hale (formerly Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering) and at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She was a partner at Anderson Kill and the Stolar Partnership and of counsel at Gammon & Grange, PC.
Admissions: Virginia, District of Columbia, New York, Missouri, various federal courts.
Memberships/Academic Affiliations: Member, American Bar Association and the NGO/NPO Division of the International Law Section; Senior Fellow Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Washington University in St. Louis Law School (2006-2008); Participant in numerous academic and governmental conferences on international laws affecting nonprofit and religious organizations; Founder Law and Liberty Trust International, a US nonprofit organization established in 1990 to analyze, advocate, and effect change in laws regulating religious activities and organizations.
Direct Email: homer@homer-international-law.com
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US AND INTERNATIONAL COUNSEL AND CORRESPONDENTS: We collaborate with other US lawyers and accountants as needed. We involve lawyers admitted to practice in foreign countries on the basis of co-counsel and correspondent relationships in order to execute various legal matters, including establishing overseas organizations and branches or representative offices for our clients. Our correspondents include many accomplished law firms with expertise in our unique areas of practice. We have longstanding relationships with attorneys in Russia, Hong Kong, China, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Ghana, and Brazil.
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