Sandrine Giroud appointed Co-Chair of the IBA Litigation Committee’s Young Litigators Forum

LALIVE Partner Sandrine Giroud has been appointed Co-Chair of the IBA’s Litigation Committee’s Young Litigators Forum, serving from the 1^st of January 2017 to the 31^st of December 2018. This new position is complementary to her position as an officer in the Litigation Committee, which she has held since 2015.

The IBA Litigation Committee works closely with the Arbitration, Consumer Litigation, Mediation, and Negligence and Damages Committees to form the Dispute Resolution Section and focuses on the legal, practical and procedural issues involved in conducting litigation with a particular focus on international litigation, including issues such as jurisdiction, choice of law, and the role of international judicial assistance in dispute resolution.

For further information on the Litigation Committee and its activities, please see here.

This appointment reinforces the historic presence and involvement of the firm’s members at the IBA’s key committees, which include a former co-chair the Arbitration Committee and former co-chair of the Business Crime Committee. Other positions currently held by other members of the firm include officer of the Business Crime Committee and officer of the Double Jeopardy Subcommittee of the  Anti-Corruption Committee.