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H. Lawrence Serra practices in the areas of insurance
coverage, commercial law, international sales transactions, letter of credit
transactions, banking practices, and civil litigation arising therefrom. He has thirty-six years experience representing corporate and
professional clients on their commercial law, liability and insurance
coverage issues.
Mr. Serra is an
experienced civil litigator. After a
year as a prosecutor and assistant appellate deputy with the San Diego City
Attorney, he began a civil litigation practice that has encompassed
commercial insurance coverage, commercial law, real estate and development
law, government land use writ practice, legal and medical malpractice
defense, international sales, and documentary letters of credit practice. Besides maintaining his own offices, he has
been a partner in McDonald, Hecht and Worley of San Diego (1979 - 1983), and
Of Counsel to McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (1994 - 2003).
Mr. Serra has
represented clients engaged in international business, licensing, contract and
sales transactions in Germany,
the U.K., Belgium, and the Far East, including Hong
Kong, the People's Republic of China,
Cambodia, and Vietnam. Mr. Serra was a founder of the American Bar
Association's Indochina Project and the Cambodia Commercial Law Revision
Project. Mr. Serra is fluent in French
and has facility in Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. He counsels clients on international contracts,
documentary letter of credit practice, the U.N. Convention on Contracts for
the International Sale of Goods, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the
Foreign Asset Control Regulations, and economic embargoes. He holds a USCG MASTER’s
license (100GRT Near Coastal) and has represented clients in vessel sales,
maritime lien, and marine insurance issues.
Mr.
Serra is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Rogers
College of Law, where he has taught International Business Transactions in
the LLM program since 1999. From 1977
to 1996 he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, where he taught in the LLM
program. Mr. Serra was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University's
Politics Department in 1983-84.
From
1967-1970 Mr. Serra was a LT. in the U.S.Navy,
served under ADM Elmo Zumwalt as a Naval
Intelligence Liaison Officer in Cambodia, and was awarded the
Bronze Star and ten other combat and campaign decorations.
Mr. Serra's publications
include: Voter Reregistration, 14 Arizona Law
Review 590 (1972); an English translation of Cambodia's Law on Foreign
Investment (text) (unofficial translation), East Asian Exec. Reports, Vol.
12, No. 10 (Oct. 15, 1990); Cambodia's Law on Foreign Investment, 12 East
Asian Exec. Reports 19 (Sept. 15, 1990); and After the Peace
Agreement: Law Revision in Cambodia,
13 East Asian Exec. Reports 8 (Nov. 15, 1991). In addition, he has been a contributing
author to: Danielson & Doig, New York: The
Politics of Regional Urban Development (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1982);
Donovan et al., Rebuilding
Cambodia — Human Resources, Human Rights and Law (1992); and Folsom
et al., International Business
Transactions (West's Nutshell Series) (West Publishing Co., 4th
ed. 1992); Practice Editor of B. Kozolchyk, Letters of Credit and Bank Guarantees
(planned publication 2010).
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