New York State Bar Association Strengthens Ties With Guam and Scotland Lawyers During Metaverse Symposium
4.28.2023
The New York State Bar Association entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland and the Guam Bar Association in New York City Friday. The signing ceremony was hosted by the firm Nixon Peabody at its New York City office. Many leaders in the international bar community are in New York City this week attending the “Deep Dive into the Metaverse and Web3 Symposium,” a two-day event sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and NYU.
The agreement provides a framework for the two legal associations to promote discourse between attorneys in both countries. Topics to be addressed include international legal issues pertaining to trade, international business transactions, commercial disputes, human rights and the transnational delivery of legal services.
“I have reached out to bar associations large and small, across the state of New York, across the country and the territories, and around the world to offer our friendship and to forge these important alliances,” said New York State Bar Association President Sherry Levin Wallach. “The goals are many, but the overarching theme of our affiliations is to protect and defend the rule of law, access to justice, and to ensure that the law is applied equally and fairly to all while fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in our profession.”
The Faculty of Advocates regulates practice at the Bar in Scotland. It is the professional body to which all advocates practicing in Scotland belong. Its history dates back to the foundation of the College of Justice in 1532. The Faculty of Advocates has had a central role in maintaining and developing Scots law as a distinctive legal system. Roddy Dunlop, dean of faculty, represented the organization at the signing.
The Guam Bar Association was created in 1978 to assist the Supreme Court in regulating the practice of law in the territory. As an integrated bar, all attorneys admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of Guam are also required to be members of the Guam Bar Association. The mission of the Guam Bar Association is to “improve the administration of justice and the standards of the legal profession.”
Jacqueline Taitano Terlaje, president of the Guam Bar Association, signed the memorandum on behalf of her organization. They were joined by NYSBA International Section Co-Chair Carlos Ramos-Mrosovsky and many NYSBA members who attended the Metaverse Symposium in New York.
The New York State Bar Association has signed more than a dozen memoranda with bar associations around the globe during Levin Wallach’s tenure as president.
