I did indeed enjoy every minute of the CILS conference and I thank you for the great organizational effort CILS has undertaken to make the event as pleasant as it was. Anelia Dinova, PI Partners, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Whistler Conference was very well organized, and the presentations were very informative and useful. Thank you all. Jorge Santistevan, Santistevan Abogados SC, Mexico DF, Mexico

Allow me to thank you for the conference. Your organization was very efficient. Vicente Calle, Garrigues, Madrid, Spain

Thanks to you for accommodating my schedule, which changed daily, even after coming to Europe! I did enjoy the portion of the conference I attended and look forward to future CILS events. Scott R. Rost, Doran, Wolfe, Rost, Ansay, Kundid & Dyer, Daytona Beach, Florida

I really enjoyed the conference and hope to be able to go on another one. Kathryn Halliday, Cobbetts, Birmingham, England

The conference was a great success and I will heartily recommend it to my colleagues. Robert W. Shaffer, Jr., Esq., Shaffer, Gold & Rubaum LLP, Los Angeles, California

I definitely intend to come to one of the nearest CILS conferences. To add, Kitzbuehel was also a great possibility to relax and finally to get snowboarding lessons. Ivars Mekons, State Chancellery of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you both for inviting me to participate at the CILS Conference in Salzburg, Austria. I had a stimulating and wonderful time meeting and interchanging with the conference participants.  CILS did an exceptional job in coordinating and preparing the program and I look forward to attending another CILS Conference in the future.  Alexander J. Palamarchuk, Frank, Rosen, Snyder & Moss, L.L.P., Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Thank you putting on such a good conference. It was both enlightening and enjoyable and I made a lot of friends while I was there. The conference was very well organized and I am hopeful that I will get to participate in another CILS conference. Thanks again for a great conference. Bryan Haynes, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP, Dallas, Texas

I greatly appreciate having had the opportunity to serve as chair of the negligence and damages conference.  It was a real honor. It certainly seemed that the conference participants had a positive experience. You are top notch. Claudia T. Salomon, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, Prague, Czech Republic

Excellent conference. Congratulations. I enjoyed myself and thought the choice of topics and speakers was very good. Brian C. Dalrymple, Nixon Peabody LLP, San Francisco, California

I greatly enjoyed the seminar this week in Salzburg. Your organization and attention to detail was impeccable. The hotel was wonderful. Please do keep me on your list for consideration at future events. Thank you again.  Sheryl M. Schwartz, Herold and Haines PA, Warren, New Jersey

I had a wonderful time at the conference, both professionally and personally. CILS did an absolutely superlative job in organizing and administrating the conference. I do hope I get the chance to participate again in this event. I learned so much and enjoyed the people attending immensely. Michael Dailey, Anderson Dailey LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

Many thanks to CILS and its most competent staff for all that was done to make this program the great success that it was. I do look forward to the 2006 program, hopefully at the same venue. John W. Hinchey, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, Georgia

Thanks for a very well organized and run conference at a very beautiful location. I shall be more than happy to come again. Christopher Koch, Georgana & Koch, Athens, Greece

Great conference and looking forward to next time Stephen D. Butler, Bechtel Corporation, San Francisco, California

I participated as a moderator on the June 2003 corporate governance program in Salzburg, which was tremendously helpful and enjoyable. I keep up with many of the other participants I met there. Gregor Baer, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, San Francisco, California

Thanks again for sponsoring a terrific conference.  It was truly informative and enjoyable. David Leta, Snell & Wilmer LLP, Salt Lake City, Utah

Receive my thanks for the time we spent in Kitzbuehel, and my congratulations for the whole event organization. Mircea Parvu, Mircea Parvu Law Offices, Bucharest, Romania

It was a great time! Jorn Holl, Kavanagh Maloney & Osnato LLP, New York, New York

Thank you for a great conference. I made many new friends and gained a better understanding about the law in Europe. Barry S. Glaser, Miller & Holguin LLP, Los Angeles, California

The conference was excellent, in fact probably the best I have attended. We must meet up again, the only questions being when and where! Dhinesh Bhaskaran, Shearn Delamore & Co., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and I was more than pleasantly surprised at the calibre of the speakers. Each and every speaker had something meaningful to contribute and it was certainly the learning experience that it should have been. I also compliment you on the organization of the conference overall. The venue was ideal. Alan Dunch, Mello, Jones & Martin, Hamilton, Bermuda

Great conference! John B. Kern, Ten State Street, LLP, Charleston, South Carolina

Thank you for organizing a successful conference and for providing us the opportunity to meet in your beautiful city. Salman Talibuddin, Kabraji & Talibuddin, Karachi, Pakistan

I thought that the level of the presentations and the discussion was excellent. Elizabeth Voight, Alston & Bird LLP, Munich, Germany

I was impressed with the quality of the presentations at the conference and with the Center itself. Jim Medford, Smith Moore LLP, Greensboro, North Carolina

I have attended several CILS conferences and have found them tremendously valuable. The presentations have been informative on a wide variety of international issues. More important to me, however, the conferences have proven a valuable networking tool. The last conference I attended had participants from twenty-three separate countries. Christopher Larus, Fulbright & Jaworski, Minneapolis, Minnesota

I have had the privilege and pleasure of attending and speaking at several CILS programs over the past few years and have enjoyed them immensely. The settings have always been delightful, the discussions thought provoking, the participants enjoyable and the long-term relationships extremely valuable, both personally and professionally. The CILS staff does a terrific job of organizing the professional programs and the social events. I have not yet attended a program in Europe but look forward to it. As a U.S. trial lawyer, it would be easy for me to feel like an "outsider" but the other fellows and attendees have always made me feel welcome. I cherish the many friendships I have developed through CILS programs. Thanks! Joseph M. Matthews, Colson, Hicks & Eidson, Miami, Florida

As you know I was a speaker in March 2002. There I met Jennifer Berner, also one of the speakers. This resulted eventually in our getting married on 20 March 2004! Franc Enghardt, Novagraaf Nederland BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This seminar was very well organized and had the most interesting mix of lawyers.  You did a truly excellent job in preparing the seminar and conducting it and the trip to the old hunting lodge was wonderful.  I really appreciated the work that went into this and truly regret having not participated in the past, so many times of which I had wanted to.  Thank you to all of you - excellent lawyers and preparation work. Pamela Cordova, Loyens, Brussels, Belgium

I enjoyed participating in the Conference and generally found it very informative.  I thought the Conference was well-organized and the speakers of high caliber. Merrikay Hall, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, Paris, France

I had a highly interesting and pleasant stay in Salzburg. I will be happy to attend other conferences in the future. Horst Henschen, Schulte Rechtsanwälte, Frankfurt, Germany

I wanted to thank you for inviting me to speak and participate in the CILS conference. It was an honour and a pleasure. CILS did an incredible job, and it really showed. I've spoken in conferences in Montreal, Los Angeles, and Bogotá this year, and I can honestly say that the Valle Nevado conference was the best organized and most informative of the bunch. Jacqueline E. Serrao, Chevalier, Allen & Lichman LLP, Irvine, California

The best people form all over the world get together for several days to exchange ideas, methods and leading edge concepts for the new people it is very enlightening and for those who are seasoned in the field it is also very enlightening. The two conferences that I attended could not have been better. John P. Madden, Canfield, Madden & Ruggiero, LLP, New York, New York

I participated in the CILS conferences in 1994 and 1995. The Waidring conferences as they were called at that time were great contact building events as well as they offered exciting topics that were presented by excellent speakers. I am enjoying now professional relationships with people that I met at the conferences. Personally, we are good friends, too. Janis Zelmenis, Deloitte & Touche, Riga, Lavtia

I have always found CILS conferences have a unique atmosphere of professional excellence and academic standards, practicality and yet conviviality. I strongly recommend them. David Barrett, Simmons & Simmons, London, England

The shared opinion of those of our office who have attended, including myself, is that the conferences are not only a great opportunity to update our knowledge on various international legal topics, but also to expand our contacts worldwide. We have found the conferences to be excellently organized and presentations have been of value for future reference. Carlos Ramos Miranda, Barrera, Siqueiros y Torres Landa, S.C., México D.F., México

Having attended and spoken at both Arbitration programmes, I can heartily recommend the conference. It provides a good overview of the subject from start to finish, often by renowned practitioners, and is also a wonderful opportunity to stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones. And Salzburg in June is gorgeous. Louise Barrington, Aculex Transnational Inc, Hong Kong, China

The contacts made at the conference have been invaluable. Excellent low-key networking with some of the world's best legal practitioners; Presentations are informative and not preachy, plenty of opportunity to dialogue with colleagues. Edward E. Lehman, Lehman Lee & Xu, Beijing, China

The Valle Nevado Conference was my third conference in three years. I have found the conferences to be valuable in providing me a global perspective in my areas of expertise and an opportunity to organize and test my ideas before other like minded professionals. The conferences have been well organized and the settings exceptional. Jorge Gonzalez, McConnell Valdés, San Juan, Puerto Rico

I was at the conference in May 2000. It was an enriching experience from a professional point of view given the diversified panel. At the same time, it was also an enriching experience from a personal point of view, since we got the chance to meet and interact with people from all over the world somehow related by a professional field. Arghemar Pérez Sanguinetti, Torres Plaz & Araujo, Caracas, Venezuela

I have attended two CILS conferences on Intellectual Property and have found them informative, challenging and rewarding in every way I could have expected. The presenters were all tops in their field and country with well prepared materials on cutting edge topics. I have very much enjoyed meeting the attendees and presenters at the social dinners and have kept in touch with several fellow practitioners whom I would not have met or known but for these conference. Very rewarding. John L. Cooper, Farella, Braun & Martell LLP, San Francisco, California

The conferences offer to practising lawyers and other legal experts from different jurisdictions a valuable opportunity to discuss problems of common interest on a comparative basis. The conferences offer valuable opportunities to deal with specifically international legal matters. The conferences enable to establish professional and other valuable contacts. The conferences are a good meeting forum not only for practising but also for teaching lawyers. The conferences offer a refreshing opportunity to get away for a while from the routine and possibly stressful environment of office work. Wahe H. Balekjian, University of Glasgow, School of Law, Glasgow, Scotland

I have found them useful as learning experiences but have particularly valued the opportunity to meet lawyers working in similar fields in other countries. This has resulted in referrals to my firm and also referrals from my firm to other firms. Rupert Lescher, Radcliffes LaBrasseur, London, England

The conferences are informative yet informal enough to provide meaningful interaction between the presenters and the audience. The conferences also provide a great networking tool to share ideas and different perspectives from the points of view of many different cultures. Richard F. Greenleaf, Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti LLP, Boulder, Colorado

It was a great pleasure to attend the Valle Nevado conference, and an honour to address the audience on Foreign Investment in Brazil. I personally found the experience very valuable, interesting and enriching in all aspects. Ricardo Derenusson Franco, Franco e Barbosa Advogados Associados, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The conference at Valle Nevado was terrific. It is not only educational but a good source for networking. The skiing could not have been better and I met some really nice people who I hope I will stay in contact with in the future. Peter Goetz, Goetz Fitzpatrick Most & Bruckman, LLP, New York, New York

The Salzburg conference on International Arbitration brings together the world's foremost specialists for an extremely lively exchange of views in a convivial atmosphere. I am always delighted to go to Salzburg that is one of Europe's most attractive cities. The only regret that I have is that the international arbitration conference takes place only every other year! Pierre A. Karrer, Pestalozzi Lachenal Patry, Zurich, Switzerland

I found the conference to be intellectually stimulating, physically rewarding (skiing) and fun and a great opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues. Lourdes P. Gomez, Law Office of Lourdes P. Gomez, New York, New York

I appreciate the value of attendance at the conference. The conference focuses on a wide variety of international aspects of law practice. The participants may set up an international network of the legal community. Yukio Kashiba, Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch LLP, New York, New York

These conferences provide a truly unique opportunity to learn and to "network" in a relaxed environment. Gerald W. Ghikas, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Terrific setting for development of close relationships with attorneys from all over the world. Fun & International Law all in the best resort locations. The Center works hard to bring the global legal community to a ski village in Kitzbuehel and Steamboat Springs for one week of intensive instruction and networking. Mark A. Nadeau, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP, Phoenix, Arizona

The program was outstanding! The caliber of the speakers, in terms of relevant and recent experience, were amazing. The seminar materials are a valuable addition to both academics' and practitioners' reference libraries. Moreover, the collegiality of the participants, the beautiful locale, and the hotel accommodations were very conducive to both the seminar sessions and "after hours" enjoyment. Robert J. Enders, Foley & Lardner, Los Angeles, California

Terrific conference, well organized, well attended - great value! Michael Magotsch, Coudert Schürmann, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

I have been to two Kitzbuehel Conferences, and would go again! The quality of delegates and speakers are excellent, the networking is most valuable and the organisation and dedication of the CILS team is second to none. Robert Bond, Hobson Audley, London, England

CILS conferences have revealed to be very useful, as far as up-to-date themes and the quality of the speakers are concerned, providing an interesting and pleasant exchange of experiences between lawyers. António Borges Pires, SCA Advogados, Lisbon, Portugal

I participated in the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Intellectual Property Law Conferences in Kitzbuehel. I first went for the continuing legal education and returned for the lasting friendships and legal updates. This excellent conference offers a unique opportunity to develop contacts all around the World as well as to enjoy learning interesting information in a beautiful mountain setting high in the most beautiful part of the Alps. From the top of the Horn all you see in 360 degrees are more snow-topped mountains, clear air, and wonderful sun. What could be better! Stephen Nagin, Nagin Gallop & Figueredo, Miami, Florida

I would like to express my sincere congratulations for the quality of topics and speakers that attended your conference in Salzburg, Austria. It gave me the opportunity during that three-day intensive conference to meet with many lawyers from other countries and develop interested leads and contacts which truly developed in exchange of services. I truly wish to recognize the quality of your organization and command the success of such conference mainly due to the efforts of your organization and the quality of speakers and panellists that you were able to interest in such a presentation. Patrice Vachon, Heenan Blaikie, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

I found the Kitzbuehel conference to be very useful -- both substantively and in terms of business development and professional contacts. Indeed, really every session was useful to me, given my practice of 100% international employment law. I appreciated being part of the conference and having the opportunity to meet all the participants. Substantively, the interactive sessions and the panel discussions were the most useful/helpful. Erika Collins, Cooley Godward LLP, San Francisco, California

These conferences have in my view (I am practicing international business law for about 30 years now) always been an asset to the legal community at large, but particularly to business law practitioners. This not only from the point of view of permanently upgrading and honing one's know-how and skills, but also from the point of view of providing the opportunity of getting to know quite a lot of interesting people, in a relaxed atmosphere, quickly resulting in doing business with people one knows, trusts and likes. The subjects of the conferences are well chosen and useful to practitioners and academics alike. The conference papers also usually are published in a convenient and useful way. All in all I can only compliment you and your abele and friendly staff with your achievements and hope you will carry on forever! Hans J. Hoegen Dijkhof, Hoegen Dijkhof Advocaten B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The CILS conferences on dispute resolution are one of the only fora where you get a broad overview of different aspects of cross border dispute resolution. The impressive number of speakers brings a variety of aspects and knowledge enhancing the quality of your professional activities. Luc Demeyere, Allen & Overy, Antwerp, Belgium

It was a rare opportunity to get together with people in the same line of profession from different countries and who carry on their practice under different conditions and legal systems. I thoroughly enjoyed and reaped much benefit from my experience at the conference, as it discussed the latest issues and development in the telecommunications field. I really hope that such an occasion will come up in the near future. Wahyuni Bahar, Bahar, Tjajo & Partners, Jakarta, Indonesia