Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi (RKMC) Law Firm Hosts Event Introducing BFA to Atlanta Community

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi (RKMC) Law Firm in Atlanta hosted an extraordinary evening on June 25, 2010, presenting Books For Africa to members of the Atlanta community. Lisa Heller, a managing partner at RKMC, hosted the event, and Nina Sharpe and Joshua Navarro with RKMC organized a beautiful event at the City Club of Buckhead. In attendance were Vince Farley, Honorary Counsel of the Republic of Mali, and well as the Honorary Counsel of the Republic of Botswana and other dignitaries.

A focus of the event was the Jack Mason Law & Democracy Initiative of Books For Africa, which sends books to African law schools. The Initiative is a partnership with Thomson Reuters, which donates new, latest-edition legal textbooks and treatises. Books For Africa recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of a large warehouse in the greater Atlanta area.

At the event, Nancy Stafford, Co-Chair of the American Bar Association International Section Africa Committee, and Lane Ayres, Director of the Law & Democracy initiative at Books For Africa, spoke about the Initiative. Ms. Stafford, an attorney at King & Spalding, thanked Thomson Reuters for their commitment. She noted that the ABA has sponsored West law book shipments to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia, and hopes to do so again soon with shipments to law schools in Ghana and Zimbabwe. RKMC also stated their continued support of the Law & Democracy Initiative of Books For Africa by providing a grant for $10,000. This is RKMC's second $10,000 grant toward the Law and Democracy Initiative of Books For Africa. RKMC is headquartered in the Twin Cities and has a major office in Atlanta.