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No one can be an expert in everything. That’s why our network contains more than 1,700 acknowledged authorities in over 3,000 areas of law including regulatory investigations, litigation, transactions, employment and international law. Our experts include law professors at preeminent universities, partners at distinguished law firms, authors of legislation and legal treatises, and former government attorneys.

Before any research is performed, we provide a complete background of each expert involved on your project, including specific qualifications and certifications that might be essential to the proposed research. We also honor requests for experts with particular credentials. Although our research is performed double-blind, LRN Legal Research Counsel can arrange for you to speak to your expert during the project definition phase and during the course of the project. We will also work to accommodate requests for follow-up questions and communication.

After more than 12 years, our experts have covered most areas of the law, allowing us to identify and source precisely the experts needed for a particular assignment. We are so confident in the results of our research methodology we back every research engagement with our complete satisfaction guarantee.

The depth of experience our network of experts brings is unmatched. Below are a few of the experts who put their knowledge to work for you:

Carla Schoonderbeek Partner, NautaDutilh law firm
	Carla Schoonderbeek is a partner in the Amsterdam office of the Dutch law firm NautaDutilh who focuses on regulatory, pricing and reimbursement law in the pharmaceutical, medical devices and biotechnology industry, both at the European Community and national levels.

Schoonderbeek has advised and represented important players in the pharmaceutical industry and has extensive litigation experience before the national courts. She coordinates pan-European marketing authorization cases in cooperation with local counsel in the EU and has extensive experience in advising the industry in respect to pricing and reimbursement of their products. A graduate of the University of Utrecht, Schoonderbeek was admitted to the Dutch bar in 1980. Before joining NautaDutilh, she was a partner at CMS Derks Star Busmann.

Schoonderbeek was a member of the team that conducted the 2000 audit of the Community pharmaceutical marketing authorization rules on behalf of the European Commission and is recommended as a leading professional for regulatory law and "High profile regulatory professional, among the first ports of call for pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients across Europe" in European Counsel's Life Sciences industry report and global Counsel's Life Sciences Report.

For LRN, Schoonderbeek has performed research on several projects for LRN including the enforceability of employee noncompete clauses in the EU, supply contract terms under Dutch law, a piece on clinical trials regulation and a project on the privacy of personal information (data protection).

Ronald E. Pump Senior attorney, Mohamed Al-Sharif law firm
	Ronald E. Pump is the senior Western attorney resident in Riyadh at the law office of Mohamed Al-Sharif. His practice has involved representing clients in telecommunications, international and domestic commercial transactions, litigation, regulatory matters, international trade policy, and government relations. He also advises on WTO and GCC regulatory issues.

Prior to joining the law firm of Mohamed Al-Sharif, Pump practiced law and government affairs at AT&T in New York, Washington, D.C., and in Cairo, Egypt, as regional director and senior attorney. While in Cairo he was responsible for all aspects of AT&T’s international business, including facilities agreements, carrier agreements, accounting rates, return traffic, business development, infrastructure finance, and regulatory compliance and advocacy.

Pump also was an associate at Shearman & Sterling in New York City and served as an assistant staff judge advocate in the USAFR. He is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia, and his federal court admissions include the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Pump holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from The George Washington University, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Washington, a J.D. degree from the Washington College of Law of American University, and a Master of Laws (Trade Regulation) from New York University School of Law. He attended the Columbia University School of Business Executive Program in International Management and IMDI in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a member of the American Bar Association, International Law and Practice Section (Middle East Law), D.C. Bar Association, a member of the Board of the International Human Rights Law Group, a member of the Board of the National U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce, and also a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Middle East Policy Council, and is the immediate past chairman of the board of Youth Services America, Inc.

Paul M. Schwartz Professor of law, University of California School of Law - Berkeley (Boalt Hall)
	Paul M. Schwartz is professor of law at the University of California School of Law- Berkeley (Boalt Hall). A leading international expert on informational privacy, copyright, telecommunications and information law, he has published widely on these topics. Professor Schwartz was educated at Brown University (1981) and Yale Law School (1985) and was a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Professor Schwartz's articles and essays have appeared in periodicals such as the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and Michigan Law Review. His co-authored books include the leading casebook, Information Privacy Law (2d ed., forthcoming 2006).

In addition, Professor Schwartz has provided advice and testimony to numerous governmental bodies in the United States and Europe. During 2002–2003, he was in residence as a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and as a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. He has also acted as an advisor to the Commission of the European Union on privacy issues. On behalf of the Practicing Law Institute, he has served as co-chair for a series of annual institutes on privacy law in New York and San Francisco.

For LRN, Professor Schwartz has written a study for a major customer on EU Data Protection in Germany as well as an article on identity theft and pretexting in the U.S. and is part of our Network of Experts.