|   | | Law Firm in San Francisco, California | A Partnership including a Professional Corporation |
| | Address | | 321 Warren Drive | | San Francisco, California 94131 | | (San Francisco Co.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 202-465-4287 | | Fax: 202-609-9897 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.bcr.us |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| | Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P. practices in the following areas of law:
General Practice before all Courts and Government Agencies. International, Litigation, Corporate, e-Commerce Law, Internet Law, Emerging Business Law, Merger and Acquisitions, Computer, Commercial Real Estate, Intellectual Property, Export Control, Criminal, Tax, Government Contracts, Entertainment. | | Year Established: 1941 | Firm Profile:
A Washington-based law firm which provides personalized, partner-level attention to its clients while possessing the resources, expertise and staff support to advise on a wide range of legal matters. The firm serves large corporations on specific matters, foreign governments, foreign businesses seeking to establish a presence in the U.S., small and medium size U.S. businesses and individuals. The firm provides legal representation before the District of Columbia courts, courts of the surrounding metropolitan area and the United States Supreme Court. Its international expertise and language skills assist clients in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Canada. | | Firm Size: 15 |
Other Office Locations of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, L.L.P.
Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A. (Main Office)
| | Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr. (Partner) admitted to bar, 1969, District of Columbia; 1991, Maryland. (Not admitted in California). Education: Harvard University (LL.B., 1967). Assistant, U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, 1972-1978. Member: District of Columbia Bar; Maryland State Bar; U.S. Supreme Court Bar. Reported Cases: McKesson v. Iran, 271 F.3d 1101 (D.C. Cir. 2001); Princz v. Germany, 26 F.3d 1166 (D.C. Cir. 1994); Pleasant Grove v. United States 479 US 462 (1987). Languages: German, French and Spanish. Practice Areas: Supreme Court; Trial Practice; Appellate Practice. Email: Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr. | | Wayne H. Rusch (Managing Partner) admitted to bar, 1970, Wisconsin; 1971, Illinois; 1980, District of Columbia; 1988, U.S. Supreme Court. (Not admitted in California). Education: University of Wisconsin (B.B.A., 1967; J.D., 1970). Phi Delta Phi. District Attorney, Iowa County, Wisconsin, 1972-1975. Counsel, Asian Development Bank, 1977-1980. Member: State Bar of Wisconsin; District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, International Law and Practice Section). Practice Areas: International; Corporate; Commercial Transactions; Dispute Resolution; Export Control and Sanctions.. Email: Wayne H. Rusch | | Clemens Kochinke (Partner) admitted to bar, 1978, Germany; 1983, District of Columbia; 1985, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Claims Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court. (Not admitted in California). Education: Heidelberg University Law School (Ref., 1975); LG Karlsruhe (Asr., 1978); King's College, School of Law, London (1978); George Washington University (M.C.L., 1983). Editor, German American Law Journal, 1991-1995. Author: "Links, Frames and Meta Tags," CR 1999, 190; "Negotiations in the United States," Heussen Edition; "Contract Negotiations and Contract Management," 2007. Member, IEEE Computer Society. Member: District of Columbia Bar; German American Law Association. Languages: German and English. Practice Areas: International; Commercial Law; Computer Law. Email: Clemens Kochinke | | Richard Landfield (Partner) admitted to bar, 1966, New York; 1972, District of Columbia; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court. (Not admitted in California). Education: Amherst College (B.A., 1962); Harvard University (LL.B., cum laude, 1965). General Counsel, The European Institute; Trustee, Holton-Arms School, 1986-1995. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Member, International Law and Practice Section, Section of Business Law). [1st Lt., U.S. Army, 1966-1969]. Reported Cases: Hillsborough County v. Automated Medical Labs., 471 U.S. 707 (1985). Practice Areas: Corporate; International; Real Estate. Email: Richard Landfield | | Benjamin H. Flowe, Jr. (Partner) admitted to bar, 1981, District of Columbia; 1990, U.S. Supreme Court. (Not admitted in California). Education: Duke University (A.B., cum laude, 1978); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (J.D., with high honors, 1981). Order of the Coif. Executive Editor, North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, 1980-1981. Staff, North Carolina Law Review, 1979-1981. Author: Export Compliance Guide, 1995. Member: Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee. (Vice Chair), Commerce Department; Steering Committee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Export Controls in a Changing World. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Former Chair, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee); American Electronics Association (Former Co-Chair, Export Controls Committee). Special Agencies: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce; Directorate of Defense Technology Controls, State; Office of Foreign Assets Controls, Treasury; Defense Technology Security Administration. Practice Areas: International; Corporate; Commercial Transactions. Email: Benjamin H. Flowe, Jr. | | Bruce Zagaris (Partner) admitted to bar, 1978, District of Columbia. (Not admitted in California). Education: University of San Francisco; George Washington University (B.A., 1969; J.D., 1972; LL.M., 1973); Stockholm University, Sweden (LL.M., cum laude, 1975); Free University, Belgium (LL.M., cum laude, 1976). Law Clerk, K.K. Hall, U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, 1972-1973. Co-Editor, "International Criminal Law," Carolina Academic Press, 3d ed. 2006. Author: "Foreign Investment in the United States," (1980, Praeger Press). Lecturer, Faculty of Law, the University of The West Indies, 1977-1978. Adjunct Professor, International White Collar Crime, Fordham University, 1990-1991; Washington College of Law, American University, 1993-1999; University of Montana, 2004—. Assistant Attorney General, Idaho, 1973-1974. Member: District of Columbia Bar; American Bar Association (Chairman, Caribbean Law Committee, 1982-1987; Chairman, Committee on International Tax, 1987-1992; Chairman, Committee on International Criminal Law, 1989-1992, 2003-2006); American Society of International Law (Executive Council, 1990-1993); Washington Foreign Law Society (President, 1990-1991); International Penal Law Association (Representative to Organization of American States, 1984—); International Fiscal Association. Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French and Swedish. Practice Areas: International; Tax; Criminal. Email: Bruce Zagaris | | John A. Ordway (Partner) admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania; 1988, District of Columbia. (Not admitted in California). Education: Harvard College (A.B., magna cum laude, 1980); George Washington University (J.D., with honors, 1985). Rotary Graduate Fellow, Hong Kong, Taiwan, 1981-1982. Member: American Bar Association, (Public Contract and International Law Sections); Federal Bar Association; The District of Columbia Bar (Government Contracts and Litigation Section). Practice Areas: Export Control; Government Procurement; Litigation; Criminal Investigations. Email: John A. Ordway | | James L. Marketos (Partner) admitted to bar, 1980, New York; 1988, District of Columbia. (Not admitted in California). Education: Princeton University (A.B., 1976); New York University (J.D., 1979). Co-Editor-in-Chief, Annual Survey of American Law, 1978-1979. Recipient: Arthur T. Vanderbilt Medal, 1979. Law Clerk: Hon. Vincent L. Brockerick, S.D.N.Y., 1979-1980. Practice Areas: Litigation. Email: James L. Marketos | | Thomas C. Viles (Partner) admitted to bar, 1988, New York; 1991, District of Columbia, Massachusetts and U.S. Supreme Court; International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, and International Criminal Court. (Not admitted in California). Education: Harvard University (B.A., 1980); New York University (J.D., 1987); University of Cambridge (LL.M., 1993; Ph.D., Law, 2000). Lecturer, Tutor & Examiner, Cambridge University Law Faculty, 1994-2000. Junior Research Fellow, John Thornely Law Fellow, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, 1997-2000. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 1999-2001. Fellow, Society of Advanced Legal Studies. ABA Representative to International Criminal Court Bar and Member of Bar Council & Executive Committee. Vice Chair, ABA International Criminal Law Committee. Member: Royal Institute of International Affairs; National Council for Civil Liberties; European Criminal Bar Ass'n; National Ass'n of Criminal Defense Lawyers (accredited NGO Observer to United Nations 2002-2004); American Civil Liberties Union (Policy Advisory Committees on Church-State Relations and Electronic Media). Law Clerk, Hon. William Wayne Justice, Chief Judge, United States District Court, E.D. Tex. Author (partial list): Hawala, Hysteria and Hegemony, II Journal Money Laundering Control (2008); International Law on a Given Day, in International Law as an Open System (London, 2002) (with J. Crawford); Due Process in International Law (Cambridge, 1999); Writs of Assistance for the Twenty-First Century?, in Proceedings of National Conference (Washington, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994) (with H. Silverglate); International Law on a Given Day, in Völkerrecht zwischen normativen Anspruch und politischer Realität (Berlin, 1994); Constitutional, Legal and Ethical Considerations, Federal Enforcement (Washington, Georgetown University Law Center, 1991) (with H. Silverglate). Languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Practice Areas: Litigation; Criminal Law; International Law; Constitutional Law. Email: Thomas C. Viles | | COUNSEL TO THE FIRM | | Daniel M. Fisher-Owens (Counsel) admitted to bar, 1999, Virginia; 2000, Maryland and District of Columbia; 2005, California. Education: Dartmouth College (A.B., History, cum laude, with high honors, 1992); University of Chicago (M.A., Islamic History, 1993); Georgetown University (J.D., cum laude, 1999). Languages: Arabic, Spanish, Persian (Farsi) and French. Practice Areas: Exports; Money Laundering; Customs Law. Email: Daniel M. Fisher-Owens | | Charles R. Gold (Counsel) admitted to bar, 1993, Pennsylvania (inactive); 1995, District of Columbia; 1996, North Carolina. (Not admitted in California). Education: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chemistry Award, 1985; B.A., History, 1988); Georgetown University (J.D., 1992; M.S.F.S., 1992). Phi Beta Kappa. Co-Author: "Little Secrets of the Auto Industry," Moyer Bell, 1994; "Legal Aspects of U.S. Sanctions," Global Dialogue, Centre for World Dialogue, Summer 2000. Member, National Council on International Trade Development's Compliance Committee. Member: District of Columbia Bar (Member, Sections on: International Law and Intellectual Property). Practice Areas: Export Controls; Trademarks. Email: Charles R. Gold | | Karl W. Abendschein (Counsel) admitted to bar, 1996, Virginia; 1998, District of Columbia. (Not admitted in California). Education: Villanova University (B.A., 1992); George Mason University (J.D., 1996). Member, International Institute of Space Law. Member: District of Columbia Bar; Virginia State Bar. Special Agencies: Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, State; Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce; Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury; Defense Technology Security Administration. Practice Areas: International Trade; International Law. Email: Karl W. Abendschein | | ASSOCIATES | | Jason McClurg (Associate) admitted to bar, 2004, California; 2005, District of Columbia. Education: University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2001); Emory University School of Law (J.D., 2004). Author: 20 INTL Enforcement L. Reporter 511; 21 INTL Enforcement L. Reporter 53, 272. Member: American Bar Association (Member: International Law Section, 2002—; Criminal Justice Section, 2004—). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Export Regulation; International Criminal Law; White Collar Crime; Public International Law. Email: Jason McClurg | | Laina Lopez (Associate) admitted to bar, 2001, District of Columbia and Maryland; 2005, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit and U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; 2006, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 2008, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. (Not admitted in California). Education: Bucknell University (B.A., 1996); American University (J.D., 2001). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act; Litigation. Email: Laina Lopez | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Washington, D.C. Office: 1101 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Suite 1100, 20036-4798. Telephone: 202-293-5555. Fax: 202-293-9035.
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