The Tribune

A Higgs & Johnson partner has attended the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Bar Leaders’ Conference and the mid-year Officers’ Meeting that took place in Zurich, Switzerland.

Tara A. A. Archer said: “The experience was great. God opened the right doors and colleagues such as businessman, Martin Murbach, assisted me greatly in getting around Zurich.

“In addition to attending the conference, I had other informative discussions with banking clients regarding the current pressures upon private banking in Switzerland.”

Mrs Archer is chair of the IBA’s consumer litigation committee. She was also recently re-appointed to its Dispute Resolution editorial advisory board.

The IBA is an organisation of international legal practitioners, with more than 50,000 individual lawyers and over 200 bar associations and law societies, spanning all continents, among its members.

It provides networking and development opportunities through conferences, publications and other media, and has a wealth of experience in providing assistance to the global legal community.

The Zurich conference was attended by Bar leaders from around the world, as well as high ranking IBA officers.

The meeting also focused on planning for the upcoming annual IBA Conference, which will be held in Boston this year. It is expected that this conference will be one of the largest held by the IBA, with over 5,000 prominent lawyers from around the world expected to attend.

Mrs Archer is in the process of organising two sessions at the upcoming annual conference, entitled ‘Chasing the Seller’ and ‘Demolishing Legal Borders’, which is a joint session with the Judge’s Forum Committee.

Mrs Archer has more than 14 years of legal experience concentrated in areas such as commercial and civil litigation, the law of insolvency, banking law, employment law and admiralty law.