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	LABAS Welcomes Anne E. Derse as the United States Ambassador to Lithuania

September 28, 2009, U.S. Department of State.
On Monday, Anne E. Derse was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to Lithuania. Abassador Derse is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. She joined the State Department in 1981 after receiving an M.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in French and Linguistics from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1976.


	Read more about Ambassador’s background at the US Embassy in Vilnius website.


	Ambassador Derse (left) and LABAS President Patricia Streeter


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About this Website: This is the web site for the Lithuanian -American Bar Association, Inc. (LABAS), a not-for-profit organization of attorneys working in a variety of activities to promote professional development and the rule of law in the United States and Lithuania. Lithuanian heritage is not a requirement for membership, only an interest in sharing our goals. Click here to read our full Statement of Purpose.

LABAS has engaged in several activities with the Vytautas Magnus University School of Law (VMU) in Kaunas, and the Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) in Vilnius (at the site of the former the Law University of Lithuania). Visit our chronology and resource pages to learn more about these activities and materials.

Here you will also find the listing of our current Board of Directors, information about Membership and a Membership Application, and a Resource Page for related legal sites, documents, and other Lithuanian organizations and sites of interest. Our on-line membership directory provides contact information for many of our law student members and practice areas for our attorney and legal academic members.


Relationships With Law Schools in Lithuania LABAS actively supports activities with law schools in Lithuania, most recently with the Vytautas Magnus University School of Law (VMU) in Kaunas and the Mykolas Romeris School of Law (MRU) in Vilnius. The VMU School of Law has a web site in English at teise.vdu.lt and publishes an on-line law review jointly with the Florida Coastal School of Law in cooperation with LABAS, called the International Journal of Baltic Law The MRU School of Law hosted the business law conference in June 2003 co-sponsored by LABAS. MRU has a web site in English at www.mruni.lt.

			This page last revised July 23, 2010



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