"In an increasingly borderless business world, law firms and other professional service providers are expected to provide instantaneous integrated inter-disciplinary solutions beyond their national boundaries. This international dimension can be found in the membership of the World Services Group (WSG). Shearn Delamore & Co. benefited positively from this international dimension of the WSG by recently having occasion to work with Shoosmiths of the United Kingdom on a corporate acquisition. This referral is a direct result of our firm's membership in the World Services Group.

We also found the Annual Meetings, especially the New York Annual Meeting, to be increasingly relevant. It was highly focused and intense and gave the participants relevant networking opportunities. Participants left for home with a feeling that time spent at the annual meeting was well worth it.

We are also highly impressed with the WSG online tools and believe that WSG has one of the most advanced search engines of its kind, with its vast database of individual professional profiles. The platform, which is fast and flexible, makes our work as service providers easier by allowing us to access the vast resources and expertise of other members of the WSG."

"We have received instructions from Davis Graham & Stubbs the Colorado legal services member to set up UK subsidiaries for a number of US companies. They have also kindly allowed me to use their offices whilst I am in Denver in November this year."

"Our firm has referred a Spanish client company establishing operations in Miami to BankUnited, WSG Banking member, where the client has opened its accounts and to Rachlin Cohen & Holtz, another WSG member, who has been retained for accounting services. Rachlin provided a tax partner at Akerman a speaking opportunity at a Baker-Tilley conference."

"We have been delighted with the responses which we have received from the WSG network which have enabled us to assist our clients around the world in a way which would not have been possible as easily prior to WSG membership. In particular, we are grateful to WSG members in Chile and in India regarding information and advice which has been given regarding on the global protection of intellectual property rights.

Closer to home, we have been developing a good relationship with our English member Shoosmiths who have referred several pieces of litigation advice to us and we were delighted that recently we have also been able to reciprocate.

We were also able very recently, through the half hour free advice service, to obtain advice from our Gibraltar member which was particularly important in allowing a client to eliminate a preliminary due-diligence matter with regard to the structural implications of proceeding with a potential transaction based in Gibraltar."

"We were delighted to complete a major Czech acquisition recently on behalf of an Irish investor, thanks to the WSG referral system and have now obtained a second referral from the WSG member in Ireland for another corporate acqusition. The WSG legal network has also enabled us to provide specialized advice to Czech clients in respect of disputes concerning contractual partners in Luxembourg and the U.K., thanks to efficient cooperation with the WSG members in Luxembourg and U.K."