Alexandria, Virginia (July 22, 2008) – The American Inns of Court Foundation, America’s oldest, largest and fastest growing attorney mentoring organization, has signed an affiliation agreement with the Inn of Transactional Counsel, a New Jersey based attorney educational organization. The affiliation agreement enables the American Inns of Court Foundation to charter Inns to promote excellence in professionalism, ethics and civility in the practice of transactional law based upon an organizational model and materials developed by the Inn of Transactional Counsel since its inception in 2001. Prior to this affiliation, most Inns chartered by the American Inns of Court Foundation focused on litigation and not transactional law.
Because the purposes of the Inn of Transactional Counsel and the American Inns of Court Foundation are virtually the same, the affiliation brings together two ideally suited partners. Transactional Inns chartered by the American Inns of Court Foundation will be known as “American Inns of Transactional Counsel” and will follow generally the structure of the Inn of Transactional Counsel in that members will be attorneys engaged primarily in transactional law and there will be less participation by members of the judiciary. Under the affiliation agreement, the Inn of Transactional Counsel will be chartered by the American Inns of Court Foundation as the “First American Inn of Transactional Counsel” and will continue to operate in northern New Jersey.
The Inn of Transactional Counsel and the American Inns of Court Foundation intend to explore new ways to expand upon the structure and materials developed for transactional Inns by the Inn of Transactional Counsel.
Dean Robert K. Walsh, President of the American Inns of Court Foundation, expressed his gratitude to Paul R. Murphy, President of the Inn of Transactional Counsel, and his board of trustees for developing an outstanding curriculum that will serve seasoned and brand new transactional lawyers alike. “Both the American Inns of Court Foundation and the Inn of Transactional Counsel eagerly look forward to working cooperatively to spread the Inn movement to other groups of transactional lawyers, filling a much needed mentoring void.”