Richard Weiner

RICHARD L.A. WEINER律师是盛德国际律师事务所布鲁塞尔和华盛顿办公室的合伙人，还是本事务所国际贸易和仲裁团队的成员。Weiner律师从事欧盟和美国监管法律业务、国际贸易和国际仲裁及诉讼业务。

Weiner律师担任欧盟委员会的国际贸易业务律师后，再次进入律师事务所执业。Weiner律师的执业领域包括处理对在欧盟开展业务的客户和在美国开展业务的跨国公司至关重要的问题。Weiner律师经常就国际贸易和市场准入争端、WTO诉讼、国际条约谈判及欧盟和美国贸易救济程序向客户提供咨询。Weiner律师被政府和利益相关方聘请，就WTO在钢铁、航空、航空引擎、电子、汽车、清洁能源产品等行业的关切提供咨询。

Weiner律师拥有丰富的诉讼和仲裁经验，代表政府和公司在WTO、美国最高法院、美国、欧盟及亚洲的行政机构及其他机构参与相关程序。Weiner律师成功地在美国最高法院代表欧盟参与举世瞩目的AMD诉英特尔案和Massachusetts/Burma诉讼案。Weiner律师担任位于华盛顿的国际争端解决协会主席，并因为墨西哥城设计债务环境交换机制而被授予“墨西哥城荣誉市民”称号，该协议于1992年里约热内卢地球峰会上签署。

Weiner律师就国际关系、国际贸易、欧盟竞争法、电信监管和国际环境事务撰写文章和发表演讲。Weiner律师在顶级律师出版物（如钱伯斯、法律500强和法律名人录）的欧盟法和国际贸易业务排名中名列前茅。

Building on his global experience, Richard has handled trade remedies and market access issues in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, the EU, Russia, China, Japan, Australia, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

He has served as legal counsel to the European Commission in more than 50 legal matters, including more than 20 proceedings before the WTO and four matters before the United States Supreme Court, including the landmark Massachusetts/Burma and AMD/Intel litigations and efforts to bar imposition of the death penalty on juveniles.

• Richard is a member of the District of Columbia and California Bars and an Associate Member (B-List) of the Brussels Bar (Flemish Order).
• Richard served on the Board of Advisers of the European Institute, a leading transatlantic policy forum based in Washington, D.C. He also serves on the Board of Advisers of LearnServe International, a prominent Washington, D.C.-based service organization benefiting diverse local area high school students.  
• Richard served as Chairman of International Dispute Resolution Associates, based in Washington, D.C., and was named an “Honorary Citizen of Mexico City” for devising a debt-for-environment swap for Mexico City, which was signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Under Sidley’s Emerging Enterprises Pro Bono Program, Richard leads a team of firm lawyers providing pro bono counsel to the Kigali, Rwanda-based Akilah Institute for Women, East Africa’s only accredited college for women, as it establishes an innovative student tuition deferment program, the first of its kind in East Africa. 

He is handling an application for asylum by a 25-year old Afghan student threatened by the Taliban for her support of equality of opportunity for girls and young women.

Richard was one of several lawyers from Sidley’s Washington, D.C. office who staffed a Ghetto Worker Payment Clinic at the Jewish Social Services Agency in Rockville, Maryland. The team helped five Holocaust survivors apply for a new German reparations program designed to compensate individuals who “voluntarily” worked in Nazi-controlled ghettos during World War II.

Richard was part of a team of lawyers and staff from Sidley’s Washington, D.C. office that regularly volunteers in Miriam’s Kitchen, a local homeless shelter.