Lockett International Legal Services is devoted to serving the global business and financial community with quality, strategic legal advice. The firm is entrepreneurial, understanding of the needs of companies expanding into new countries and of the particular needs of start-up high tech companies. We are able to provide our clients the benefit of experience gained from many years of representing a broad, diverse client base. As a law firm, Lockett International Legal Services is able to provide complete, confidential services to its clients --- from basic nuts and bolts advice through strategic advice relating to major international institutions.

We are often general counsel to businesses, handling overall legal responsibility in diverse matters and jurisdictions, and referring work to local counsel and other specialists as needed. We also receive referrals from larger law firms who are confident of our abilities based on our years of service with several of the largest international law firms. While Lockett International Legal Services is often consulted after a problem is discovered, many of our clients prefer, and find it more cost effective, to work with us to identify and correct deficiencies before they become problems. We work with clients to ensure that their international operations are structured to minimize the potential for adverse consequences, and to maximize flexibility and profitability.

Listed in Who's Who In The The World, James K. Lockett is the founder of Lockett International Legal Services. Trained as an international lawyer, Mr. Lockett is an American yet lived outside of the US for much of the past twenty years. He worked from 1983 to 1997 in Brussels, Belgium where he was a partner in a major Wall Street international law firm. Thereafter, he worked for two years in Sweden. Since then, he was based in Washington, D.C. where he continues his international legal practice. He added seven years of high-level government service from 2001-2008, working as Senior International Attorney-Advisor in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and then as a Senior Trade Lawyer in the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Indonesia. In 2008, he joined the Hanoi, Vietnam office of Baker & McKenzie, the global law firm. He brings this considerable experience back to the private practice of law.

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