LNA enables our Chicago law firm to make trusted referrals throughout the world. Many of our clients have national and global operations, so the ability to efficiently engage local counsel with full service law firm capabilities enhances our ability to serve our clients. With great success, we’ve engaged LNA firms: in India to assist with M&A matters; in Oakland to assist with Prop 65 claims; in Melbourne, Frankfurt and Paris to assist with commercial contract matters; in Los Angeles and Honolulu to assist with local employment law compliance; in Amsterdam to assist with formation of a new company; among many others. The ability of my colleagues to trust each LNA member firm’s legal experience and commitment to high quality client service makes our involvement in LNA indispensable.

Netlink, and specifically the meetings all over the U.S. and throughout the world, have allowed me and my wife to make close personal and professional relationships with lawyers everywhere. On a personal basis, we have stayed at their homes, and they have visited ours. It has been an unusually enriching experience to get to know so many people from outside our normal circles and count them as good friends. On a professional level, our firm has handled a number of legal matters from this group of friends which would have never made their way to us. All in all, it’s been a terrific experience, and I thank Netlink for the opportunity and platform to make this happen.

Our client purchased several businesses in the Los Angeles California vicinity. We requested assistance from the Clark & Trevithick firm in Los Angeles to identify necessary permits needed to operate the businesses and assistance in preparing submissions. Clark & Trevithick promptly responded to our request for assistance, researched the necessary state laws and prepared forms for submission. This assistance allowed us to be a full service provider for our client.

A museum in Holland approached a client about purchasing a valuable painting. We'd previously met Bas van Vliet from member firm Wintertaling in Amsterdam and he connected us with one of their lawyers who practiced art law and who also knew the players at the purchasing museum. Thanks to LNA, we were able to deliver services to our client that were on par with any international law firm. Our Client could not have been happier.

At the risk of sounding trite, good relationships are usually key to a successful career and, at least as important, to a happy life. For me, one of the biggest benefits of Legal Netlink has been the human connection. Legal Netlink has enriched not only my legal career, but also my personal life, allowing me to gain friends around the world who are good persons that have broadened my perspectives and interests and made the world a small, better place.

RCFP is proud to belong to LNA. The network’s membership of first-class law firms gives our clients access to quality legal representation virtually anywhere in the world. It’s a way for us to expand our expertise, geographic reach and ability to team up, engage and collaborate with attorney colleagues to better serve our business and corporate clients’ needs when the need arises. We trust and appreciate that LNA has vetted every firm in its membership making referrals quite seamless.