How we got to Central Asia
A number of people have asked us, “What the hell are you doing in the middle of Siberia with winter about to set in?” About eighteen months ago, Tom Fraser, a partner at Fredrikson & Byron, received an email from the Center for International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. CILS was organizing a new program which would put volunteer “senior” lawyers in Eastern European law schools. The school would provide the students and housing and the volunteer would take care of everything else. Tom, immediately identifying Bob as a senior lawyer, forwarded the email to him.
Bob made further inquiry into the program. He was sent an application asking for writing samples, list of publications and teaching experience. In the fall of 2005, Bob went to Chicago for an interview with Dennis Campbell, the director of CILS. To Bob’s great surprise, Kent Harbison from Fredrikson was also there for an interview. It turned out that Tom had also identified a third partner, Leo Stern, as a senior lawyer and Leo likewise applied.
Kent, Leo, and Bob in Salzburg, January 2006
An orientation program was given for all lawyer participants (about 49 from the US and Canada) in Salzburg the second week of January 2006. The week-long session gave some basic background in the European legal education system and provided answers to basic questions about the differences among the various legal systems in the countries to which the lawyers were about to be sent.
Immediately following the Salzburg session, Kent Harbison and his wife, Jude, left for their Eastern European assignment, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. Kent and Jude stuck out a difficult assignment for over three months.
Leo was assigned to the hardship post of Budapest, Hungary. He was there about four weeks in the spring and had a splendid experience.
We are assigned elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Novosibirsk, Siberia for a six-week teaching experience. One week into it and the enthusiasm of the students is inspiring Bob. We anticipate that it will be all that we expected and that we will have many, many stories to entertain you with at dinners well into the future.
Bob made further inquiry into the program. He was sent an application asking for writing samples, list of publications and teaching experience. In the fall of 2005, Bob went to Chicago for an interview with Dennis Campbell, the director of CILS. To Bob’s great surprise, Kent Harbison from Fredrikson was also there for an interview. It turned out that Tom had also identified a third partner, Leo Stern, as a senior lawyer and Leo likewise applied.
Kent, Leo, and Bob in Salzburg, January 2006An orientation program was given for all lawyer participants (about 49 from the US and Canada) in Salzburg the second week of January 2006. The week-long session gave some basic background in the European legal education system and provided answers to basic questions about the differences among the various legal systems in the countries to which the lawyers were about to be sent.
Immediately following the Salzburg session, Kent Harbison and his wife, Jude, left for their Eastern European assignment, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. Kent and Jude stuck out a difficult assignment for over three months.
Leo was assigned to the hardship post of Budapest, Hungary. He was there about four weeks in the spring and had a splendid experience.
We are assigned elsewhere in Eastern Europe, Novosibirsk, Siberia for a six-week teaching experience. One week into it and the enthusiasm of the students is inspiring Bob. We anticipate that it will be all that we expected and that we will have many, many stories to entertain you with at dinners well into the future.
posted by Peggy W at Sunday, September 24, 2006
1 Comments:
Sounds great - Has there been any though about finding a teaching gig upon return to the states?
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