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“Here we are, more than a year later, making it work!” Reich says. “I feel like we’ve survived the trials and tribulations of startup and now we’re enjoying the opportunity to practice law for ourselves and in the areas of practice that we enjoy.”
GLOBAL CLIENTELE
Reich is a commercial litigator with a practice focusing on complex business dispute resolution and commercial ar- bitration. Rodriguez is a board-certi-  ed international law attorney focused on commercial litigation, international arbitration, and art law disputes.
“Interestingly, only a handful of our repeat clients are local,” Reich says.
“We have a real love for international clients and international work,” Reich continues.  e  rm’s clientele includes entities and individuals from Mexico, Venezuela,  e Caribbean, Canada, Greece, Singapore, as well as across the United States in a wide variety of dis- putes and dispute resolution forums.
“It’s so interesting to become part of the client’s team, really dig in and learn how our clients operate,” Reich says. “ at’s part of the appeal of doing in-
It’s so interesting to become part of the client’s team, really dig in and learn how our clients operate.
ternational work. In other countries, businesses are run di erently.  ey have di erent goals and viewpoints and it’s enjoyable to see the world through your clients’ eyes.”
Together, they also orchestrate a lot of pre-suit work where a matter could go to trial, could go to arbitration, or could be resolved before an action is  led. “You can imagine how hesitant an international client might be to engage in the dispute process in the United States, which to them is a foreign legal system,” Rodriguez explains. “We help them with pre-suit dispute resolution to avoid having to  le a lawsuit or be sued in the United States.”
With running their own practice comes the opportunity to explore areas of the law that interest them. For ex- ample, Reich and Rodriguez recently had some outstanding success in court as co-counsel in an IP matter for a client in Mexico involving a “cybersquatting” dispute, an area of law they look for- ward to expanding. Reich has also be- gun serving as a commercial arbitrator and is growing that part of her practice. With each case, the duo learns more and more that in turn make their services
more valuable to future clients.
‘ART DISPUTES ARE EVERYWHERE’
In another facet of the practice, Rodriguez works in art law and in the resolu-
tion of art disputes. Nearly two years ago at a confer- ence, she was introduced to a preeminent California lawyer, Don Burris, who specializes in the restitu- tion of Nazi-looted art. “For me, it was amazing! It was like meeting Indiana Jones,” ex- plains Rodriguez, who has always
had an a nity for anthropology, ar- chaeology, art, and history.
A er meeting Burris and realizing that he was doing the kind of work she dreamed of doing, Rodriguez made a point to reach out and build a profes- sional relationship with Burris that ulti- mately turned into a friendship. When Reich Rodriguez was founded, Rodri- guez approached Burris about serving as co-counsel to each other’s law  rms.
“Don is such an experienced practi- tioner,” Reich says. “He loves to teach and talk to people who are interested in art law. And Clarissa was eager to learn as much as she could about the area. Don and Clarissa just clicked.”
Although the two are vastly di er- ent in their ages and backgrounds, they share a passion for the law of art that has made them kindred spirits, and the two  rms work synergistically in a  eld they both love.
“We look forward to building out our practice of art law in Miami and through- out the region,” says Rodriguez. Any- where you have wealth, you will have art, and the presence of art inevitably leads to art-law disputes, the duo says.
Together, Reich and Rodriguez fully plan on expanding the  rm and their practices in the coming years. Indeed, they look forward to working with tal- ented women and men in the future.
“We are going to make our own way, provide our clients with excellent legal service, and I think we’ll have an awful- ly good time doing it,” Rodriguez  n- ishes with a smile. “We have something special here, and we’re going to be very successful, no doubt.”
REICH RODRIGUEZ, P.A.
9999 NE 2nd Ave, Suite 204 Miami, FL 33138
(786) 420-6235 reichrodriguez.com
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