Client Testimonials

"FLI and your network delivered on the promise and passed the test. We were especially impressed with the responsiveness and willingness from your HQ in Brussels to get to the right answer and deliver a quality memo that we could use to make business decisions, all in a timely and cost effective manner."

"We have been very pleased with the support provided by FLI NET China Partner, Dacheng Law Firm - Shanghai, and especially with their responsive and direct approach to our requirements and expectations: straight to the point, keeping away the classical long-winded memos and unnecessary reports.
We are happy to recommend FLI and their innovative business model to renderiing both cross-border and local support through a central management point of coordination."

"As General Counsel of a multi-national pharmaceutical company operating worldwide and in far-flung regions where the large international firms don’t even have a viable presence, I find that the First Law network hits the sweet spot in a variety of ways –real local presence, professional solutions, and excellent cost control.  I know when I give First Law a matter to handle that they will hustle to put the right resources on it, that they will quickly evaluate the situation and come forward with thoughtful solutions, and that it won’t cost me an arm and a leg.  It’s not easy to find legal providers who can provide true cross-border, seamless support while striking the right balance between these considerations and who can provide coverage in the smaller and emerging markets.  First Law does it smoothly and effectively."

Peter Edwards
Executive Vice President and
General Counsel

May 15th, 2010

"We have been very impressed with the international support of First Law International. FLI's business model seems to be at the right place at the right time. In these financially difficult times where budgets are very carefully spent, a law firm with FLI's global reach is managed by seasoned attorneys who happen to be business minded."

"On behalf of Hertz, I would like to take this opportunity to thank  you for your valuable role...Please convey to your principals that we have thoroughly appreciated working with you on this matter. And while the process may have taken much longer than either party had hoped, ... we are pleased with the final product and look forward to a long, profitable partnership associaton."

"We have been very pleased with the level of services we have received by FLI...We have been very impressed with FLI's business approach to rendering legal services. Their understanding of international law and its application to our way of thinking and doing business in Europe has been a real asset. We intend to continue to use them in the future as we expand into other markets. We recommend FLI without reservation."

"We are happy to recommend First Law International as our preferred international legal support. During our professional relationship we have found FLI's model very much in line with the evolving requirements in current recessionary market place. FLI's executives are very competent attorneys witih a business mindset, which proves invaluable for companies such as ours."

"First Law International and its Principal, Mr. Orlando Casares, have been our international legal service provider for a number of years. During all this time, Mr. Casares has not only provided valuable legal support but has become a trusted advisor well beyond the realm of a traditional lawyer."

"From the outset, FLI has been very proactive with our emerging requirements, not only by organizing key-level meetings with your multinational partners to better identify our strategy into the European market, but also by enabling a unique and extremely valuable platform of top-level contacts within MODs in Germany, France, the Netherlands and UK. Our company has been very impressed by your keen sense of understanding of our core business and your tenacity to locate opportunities where one might not otherwise be found as was the case in Italy and Spain where your contacts both within the government and heads of industry have proven both unique and invaluable."

"FLI’s business model and international presence worldwide for a company such as ours has been a real plus given the nature of our market, especially FLI’s key-level contacts in difficult places to conduct business."