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Wlawdragon |{A Note FROm ThePUBLISHER AND EDITOR}e marvel at how much is always going on at Lawdragon. There’s the magazine you are nowviewing, of course, which is our most prominent calling card along with the Lawdragon 500lawyers of the year featured in these pages.But what’s thrilling in this digital world is how much else percolates unseen as we develop Lawdragon’s core missionof being the online legal news site. We undertook a complete redesign of our website in 2012 to support our growingbusiness – helping clients better support their practices with online presence at Lawdragon.com. We also enhancedthe visual presentations of our legal features and photography, including many of the images in this magazine.As you peruse these pages, we’re sure you’ll be captured as we were by arresting photos of Gerald Shargel, KathleenFlynn Peterson, Leo Strine and Travis Laster, Ted Mirvis, Patrick McGroder and so many others. These lawyersare truly the face of the law today and in their eyes, you can see the passion and dedication they bring to each oftheir roles in the law.Another little known feature of our site is our expanding coverage of international law, anchored by our Editor-in-Chief John Ryan. “Last Stop Belgrade” continues our focus on international justice from last year’s look at SouthAfrica and its efforts to apply post-apartheid transitional justice – mechanisms to address widespread human rightsviolations after a period of war or oppression. For “Last Stop,” Ryan traveled to The Hague, Bosnia-Herzegovinaand Serbia to explore efforts to prosecute crimes from the wars that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the1990s. Over recent decades, a consensus has emerged that accountability mechanisms may be vital to transitioningsocieties – but questions remain of what mechanisms work most effectively, and in what types of settings? Ryan’smeticulous reporting provides insight through the lens of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,at The Hague, and within the domestic War Crimes Chamber in Belgrade, Serbia, a nation that has beenresistant to holding war crimes suspects accountable.For a whole other take on “transitional” issues, we turn to the practice of intellectual property law and thenew trend for lawyers to create new practices dedicated to monetizing intellectual property assets for theirclients, as well as themselves.In “The New IP Lawyer,” Contributing Editor Xenia Kobylarz explores the work ofLawdragon 500 member David Berten, co-founder of Global IP Law Group, which handled Nortel’s historic $4.5Bpatent auction.And Founder Katrina Dewey sits down with the nation’s leading litigation luminary, David Boies, as he preparesto celebrate Boies Schiller’s 15th anniversary. Aptly, he had to take a call as we sat down to have a drink at theFour Seasons, as Al Gore was on the line. Gore is just one of the world leaders who have relied on Boies fordecades for his unmatched judgment and skill, which we reminisce about while looking at what shaped thisremarkable firm and its leader.It’s been a great year and, like each and every year, it’s only because of you, our readers. Your support helpsus achieve our vision of building an online legal news site free to all readers where anyone from a corporatecounsel to an individual consumer can easily find information to help them better understand and make betterchoices about the law.So this one’s for all of you. We’re honored for your ongoing support and passion to provide justice.K a t r i n a D e w e YPublisher and CEOkatrina@lawdragon.comJ o h n R y a nEditor-in-Chiefjohn@lawdragon.comL A W D R A G O N 14 I s s u e 1 3