| 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-two years of 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 malpractice 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, 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 Indo-China 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 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.N.R., 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 2007). |
