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 | Barton Legum Salans |
Barton Legum is Partner and head of the firm's treaty arbitration practice in Paris. He has argued cases before numerous international arbitration tribunals, the International Court of Justice and state and federal trial and appeals courts in the United States.
Mr. Legum joined Salans in 2009. Earlier in his career he was a law clerk to the Hon. Carolyn Dineen King, now Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Legum served as Chief of the NAFTA Arbitration Division in the Office of the Legal Adviser, United States Department of State. In that capacity, he acted as lead counsel for the United States Government in defending over $2 billion in claims submitted to arbitration under the investment chapter of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The United States won every case decided under Mr. Legum's tenure.
Mr. Legum is a member of the Council of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law. He is the Council Committee Liaison who oversees the Section's Committees on International Commercial Dispute Resolution, International Litigation, International Courts and International Criminal Law. He served as a Co-Chair of the Section's International Litigation Committee from 1999 to 2003.
Mr. Legum received his D.E.A. in public international law from the Université de Droit, d'Economie et de Sciences Sociales de Paris in 1987, his J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1985 and his B.A. from Rice University in 1982. He is a member of the bars of New York and Georgia.
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