The strong team of lawyers with solid 13-year uninterrupted professional experience in lobbing, corporate governance, educational management, business transactions and litigation; we highly value professional standards, ethical norms and impartiality by recognizing attorney-client privilege, confidentiality and other professional responsibility to our clients, the courts and the public.

Full coverage of legal services by prioritizing of attorney-client privilege as top value with integrated legal and business solutions to our clients, counting complex cross-border and domestic transactions with business tax advisory, pre-trial negotiation and strategic litigation;

We actively support placement of domestic and foreign direct investments on Caucasian market by launching challenging projects.

We have unique legal expertise in online contracting, electronic commerce, marketing and PR campaigns legal support, intellectual property and patent law, competition and cybercrime law;

Since 2012 KMG is an initiator, exclusive partner and sole manager of the prominent US private educational program – School of American Law for Caucasus & Turkey. Success of this unique program is achieved by devoting pro-bono time and expertize of KMG partners.

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) founded in 1940 is a private, national, technological, Ph.D. granting research university, with world-renowned programs in engineering, architecture, the sciences, humanities, psychology, business, law, and design. In 1969, IIT became one of the few technology-based universities with a law school when Chicago-Kent College of Law, founded in 1887, became an integral part of the university. IIT Colleges and Institutes: Chicago-Kent College of Law; Stuart School of Business; Armor College of Engineering; College of Architecture; College of Psychology; College of Science and Letters; Institute of Design; Institute for Food Safety and Health; School of Applied Technology; University Technology Park;

Head of School of American Law
Board Member of SAL 
E: k.jeladze@salcaucasus.ge

Mrs. Jeladze and Ms. Meskhi being deeply inspired by the US educational system and US dynamic legal environment decided to initiate School of American Law for Caucasus and consequently has launched in 2012 this outstanding US master program with meaningful support and dedication of Professor Richard Warner.

Two prominent young lawyers Mrs. Jeladze and Ms. Meskhi by establishing of Chicago-Kent College of Law special program truly motivated their colleagues and legal practitioners to meet challenges of effective integration into the modern and globalized world.

Mrs. Jeladze is a board member and Head of School for American Law for Caucasus Region on behalf of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Mrs. Jeladze and Ms. Meskhi dedicated their pro-bono time of behalf of KMG Law Firm to effectively manage School of American Law operation in Georgia.

The founder members of School of American Law for Caucasus – Professor Richard Warner, Ms. Meskhi and Mrs. Jeladze have significant plans for up-coming future to ensure professionals’ effective professional adaptation and integration into globalized world.

Managing Partner 

E: m.meskhi@kmg.ge

Maia Meskhi is a founder partner of Knowledge Management Group – KMG Georgia LLP.

Prior to 2011, Ms. Meskhi served as General Counsel of Millennium Challenge Georgia Fund - US Department of State Project. In the capacity of GC at MCG Fund, Ms.Meskhi provided advices to MCG management on all legal issues affecting the MCG and its operations, including areas of evaluation, conduct legal due diligence and representation the MCG in Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Meskhi has an extensive experience of working in energy sector. Having held a position of a General Counsel of JSC Caucasus Energy & Infrastructure, she has thorough knowledge into legislative framework on hydropower plant development, licensing, administrative, contractual, and laws on obligation. 

While working on drafting and lobbying legislation since 2006 during specific projects funded and implemented by Global Fund, Ms. Meskhi has a sound experience in drafting and lobbying legislation in administrative, criminal, and health care legislation. During the last 10 years she acquired an extensive experience in drafting and lobbying legislation in the following fields: health care, drugs, criminal code, code of administrative offences, civil code, tax code, tourism, non-commercial law, legislation of the Adjara autonomous region in Georgia, by-laws/subordinated acts.

Is member of Georgian Bar Association.

Chicago-Kent College of Law, the law school of Illinois Institute of Technology, is nationally recognized the second oldest law school in the state of Illinois, Chicago-Kent has a history marked by innovation and excellence.

Chicago-Kent was gained accreditation by the American Bar Association in 1936 and membership in the Association of American Law Schools in 1951. Within its first twenty-five years, Chicago-Kent had already established itself as one of the most innovative law schools.

In January 1992, Chicago-Kent moved into a new ten-story, state-of-the-art building located at 565 West Adams Street in downtown Chicago. The building is equipped with the latest technology and includes a five-story library, a complete courtroom that seats one hundred people, and significant additional space for classroom and student activities.

Chicago-Kent's growth has been spurred by a number of factors: an innovative and dedicated faculty, constantly upgraded facilities, and an outstanding student body. Chicago-Kent's law library, one of the largest among law schools in the nation, provides resources that enhance the educational process.

Chicago-Kent is nationally recognized for offering the most comprehensive research and writing program of any law school in the country.

In addition, its extensive clinical and trial advocacy programs help to sharpen students' practice skills. The law offices of Chicago-Kent which supervises the clinical program is the first fee-generating law firm to operate as part of an American law school.

The Programs in Business Law, Criminal Litigation, Environmental and Energy Law, International and Comparative Law, Intellectual Property Law, Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Labor and Employment Law, Public Interest Law, and the Center for Law and Computers underscore Chicago-Kent's commitment to curricular innovation to better prepare lawyers for the demands of practice in a complex society.

All of these programs contribute to the essential task of the law school, which is to teach its students to think like lawyers. Faculty members continually pursue this fundamental goal, whether by exploring the theoretical justification for a rule of law in traditional Socratic fashion or by helping a student fashion a complaint on behalf of a client in the Law Offices of Chicago-Kent. The faculty distinguishes itself in legal scholarship in areas ranging from international business to environmental law.

From the initial gathering of law students in judges' chambers, Chicago-Kent has grown to a current enrollment of over 1,000 students, a large full-time faculty and an adjunct faculty made up of practicing attorneys and members of the judiciary.

School of American Law (SAL) is an oversea program established by Chicago-Kent College of Law operating in Europe since 1998 and in Caucasus since 2012 to provide equal access to modern legal education. School of American Law is unique, the first and so far the only program in whole Caucasus with the guaranteed educational opportunity to master legal education and obtain master degree in Law (LL.M) at Chicago-Kent, Chicago, IL, USA; 

School of American Law for Caucasus operates in Tbilisi, Georgia and offers two-semester pre-master program in Tbilisi and one-semester LL.M program in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Since 2012 thirteen successful lawyers from Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan graduated from SAL Caucasus, became SAL Alumni and were admitted to Chicago-Kent with significant scholarship to complete master degree.

After graduation from SAL Caucasus each graduate receives an admission if earned 2.7 GPA and obtains LL.M from Chicago-Kent College of Law in one semester instead of one academic year;
SAL Caucasus program graduates have right to keep their place at LL.M up to three years and choose the most convenient period for their LL.M study at Chicago-Kent;

Lusine Bakumyan

Lusine Bakumyan holds a position of Chairperson and Integrity Officer at the FFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC). She is a member of the Qualification Committee of the Chamber of Advocates of Republic of Armenia.

Since 2004, holds a position of Head at the FFA Legal & HR department. Since 2000, Lusine is a Member of the Chamber of Advocates of Republic of Armenia. Her specialization is to represent and protect interests of citizens and organizations in all levels of civil and administrative procedure (Pre-trial, First Instance, Appeal and Cassation Courts. 

Mary Japaridze

Mary holds the position of a lawyer at a joint stock company, which operates shopping mall Tbilisi Central. She also provides legal counseling to different private companies on a regular basis.

Prior to the current position, Mary has been employed as an attorney at Kordzadze Law Office and NGO Article 42 of the Constitution, where she has gained substantial experience in litigation, both in Georgian courts and also in the European Court of Human Rights.

Mary holds BA degree from the Tbilisi State University and LLM degree from the University of Georgia.

Zurab Melkadze

Mr. Melkadze is General Counsel at L.E.P.L. Georgian National Investment Agency, with more than 8 years of continuous professional experience in Banking and Insurance Law, Corporate and Investment Law, Cross-border Transactions and Commercial Contract Negotiations.

During this period Zurab worked as a Legal Associate at UBC International LLC, Senior Legal Counsel and Deputy Head of Legal Department at Bank Republic, Societe Generale Group.

Mr. Melkadze holds International Law degree from Tbilisi State University and Masters Degree in Public Administration from Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). Mr. Melkadze was involved in additional studies of American legal system and English legal writing skills; Zurab has successfully passed Georgian Bar Association exams.

Valerian Davitaia

Mr. Valerian Davitaia holds the position of the Executive Director of the Law Office “Gabunia and Partners”, which is one of the dominant players in Georgian market of legal services. As G&P mostly deals with some of the biggest companies operating in Georgia, Valerian has to deal with legal issues of complicated business transactions.

He has a great experience of providing legal assistance to clients in varied fields like contract law, corporate law, tax law, property law, etc. During four years of his professional career Valerian represented individuals, private entities, different types of companies and non-governmental organizations as an Attorney at Law in the courts of Georgia and in communication with other governmental bodies.

Although, Mostly his professional activities are oriented on local segment, he also has the experience of dealing with foreigners providing assistance about the immigration issues as well as providing memorandums and due diligences to foreign entities and individuals.

Valerian Davitaia holds a Diploma of the Certified Specialist in Law from Tbilisi State University. He is member of Georgian Bar Association since 2009. He also holds the Certificate of Business Accountant from Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA) since 2008. Due to his will to widen his professional knowledge, he addressed Chicago-Kent College of Law for the LL.M. Program in International and Comparative Law.

Grigori Poghosyan

Grigori Poghosyan is a Ph.D lawyer with uninteraped professional practice in legal field. Since 2012 he works for as an Advisor of Deputy Head of Police of Republic of Armenia.

From he same period he is a member of Chamber of Advocates of the Republic of Armenia.

Rashad Yusifov

Rashad Yusifov is an Attorney at law, Member of Bar Association of Republic of Azerbaijan and Head of Legal Department of Vision Fund Azercredit LLC (VisionFund International Affiliate)

Rashad Yusifov is a graduate of Azerbaijan National Aviation Academy and holds Specialist degree in Law. Right after the graduating in 2006 Rashad took the position of lawyer with one of the leading banks of Azerbaijan, “UniBank” CB.

Rashad’s academic and professional interests focus on Banking and Finance law, Corporate and Investment Law, Employment Law, Constitutional Law. His area of expertise also comprises Real Estate and Criminal law.

Full coverage of legal services by prioritizing of attorney-client privilege as top value with integrated legal and business solutions to our clients, counting complex cross-border and domestic transactions with business tax advisory, pre-trial negotiation and strategic litigation;

We actively support placement of domestic and foreign direct investments on Caucasian market by launching challenging projects.

We have unique legal expertise in online contracting, electronic commerce, marketing and PR campaigns legal support, intellectual property and patent law, competition and cybercrime law;

Since 2012 KMG is an initiator, exclusive partner and sole manager of the prominent US private educational program – School of American Law for Caucasus & Turkey. Success of this unique program is achieved by devoting pro-bono time and expertize of KMG partners.

At Chicago-Kent, you will study and collaborate with one of the most productive and influential groups of legal scholars in the country;

Chicago-Kent combines rigorous theoretical course work with first-rate training in lawyering skills, legal writing and advocacy;

Beginning in your first term, you are assigned a career counselor who helps you create a career development plan that fits your personal and professional goals;

The pass rate for Chicago-Kent graduates who took the Illinois bar exam for the first time in July 2012 was 95.43 percent - more than six points above the state average;

Chicago-Kent students come from 42 states and 19 countries, with backgrounds in biochemistry, journalism, engineering, teaching, fine arts and more. They are interesting people leading interesting lives.

Chicago-Kent College of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association in 1936 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (1951) and the Order of the Coif (1989).

Chicago-Kent became a member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1951, merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1969, and was elected unanimously to the Order of the Coif law school honor society in 1988.

U.S. News & World Report ranked Chicago–Kent College of Law as the Top 100 Law Schools, Best Graduate School with the following details: 

3^rd Trial Advocacy  

3^rd Highest rank in Chicago Area 


10^th Legal Writing 


11^th Best Part Time J.D Programs from 42 ranked and listed law schools of USA 


15^th Intellectual Property Law 


63^rd Nationally from the 145 ranked and accredited law       schools of USA

Based on U.S. News & World Report Chicago Kent College of Law has the following achievements: 

Employed at graduation – 66.2 per cent 


Employed 9 months after graduation – 90.7 per cent 


Schools bar passage rate in jurisdiction 93.8 per cent

Jurisdiction’s overall bar passage rate – 89 per cent

Yale University’s indices for “Employed 9 months after graduation” is 91% and for “Jurisdiction’s overall bar passage rate” is 76 per cent 
 

Stanford University’s indices for “Employed 9 months after graduation” is 97% and for “Jurisdiction’s overall bar passage rate” is 65 per cent  

Harvard University’s indices for “Employed 9 months after graduation” is 94% and for “Jurisdiction’s overall bar passage rate” is 76 per cent. 

Anna Gagua

Mrs. Gagua has more than 10-year uninterrupted professional practice. She is a member of Georgian Bar Association. She is licensed attorney in civil, criminal and administrative legislation. Her professional experience is strongly supported by her solid academic background. Mrs. Gagua holds professional LLM degree (Diploma with Honors) from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. In addition, she has undertaken additional studies in School of Attorneys in Georgia and in Prague, Czech Republic. Is author of different publications.

Mrs. Gagua presently works as a Legal Counsel at Georgia Transit LLC, a company associated with JSC Georgian Railways, which itself is a state owned enterprise. Mrs. Gagua practices civil law and administrative law. Her experience includes a wide range of areas including banking and insurance law, tax law, corporate law, intellectual property law, employment law and mediation, administrative law and administrative proceedings. Most part of her legal practice she devoted to the field of business advising which, among others things, includes conducting and participating in negotiation processes; drafting and analyzing complex agreement documents, including those related to business mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, board governance issues; insolvency; equity and debt security offerings, government-private sector transactions, etc. She has experience in presenting the rights of the clients at different levels of the court, including the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Before joining Georgia Transit LLC Mrs. Gagua has worked as legal counsel for the following companies: JSC Bank Republic Societe Generale Group; Center Point Invest Ltd; Hotel Network Rcheuli; Center Point Group LTD; Tbilisi Water Company LLC; Grigol Robakidze State University; Human Rights Information and Documentation Center; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia; Center for Public Constitutional Rights and Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association.

Giorgi Taktakishvil

Mr. Giorgi Taktakishvili is a founder and managing partner of IP Law Firm Mikadze Gegetchkori Taktakishvili (MGT). At the same time he is the chairman of National Association of Patent Attorneys of Georgia and chairman of Intellectual Property Commission of ICC Georgia. His practice focuses on various issues of intellectual property rights, including trademarks, copyright and enforcement. Mr. Taktakishvili has more then 14-year uninterrupted professional practice in the field of intellectual property. From 2000 to 2005 he worked for Georgian Patent & Trademark Office (SAKPATENTI) as a head of legal department and Member of Chamber of Appeals being responsible for coordination and supervision of Legal Department, legal drafting, comparative analysis of national legislation and European regulations, representation of Georgian Patent & Trademark Office (SAKPATENTI) before governmental bodies, WTO, WIPO and non-governmental organizations. During this period Mr. Taktakishvili participated in preparation of book “International Copyright Law” being its co-author. He left Georgian Patent & Trademark Office (SAKPATENTI) in January 2005 and in December of the same year has successfully obtained status of Registered Patent Attorney of Georgia.

Earlier in 2004 Mr. Taktakishvili successfully passed bar exam in Civil and Administrative Law. In 2007, along with his partners, he established specialized IP law firm Mikadze Gegetchkori Taktakishvili (MGT). Mr. Taktakishvili is personally responsible for representation of the most known clients of MGT like The Coca-Cola Company, SAMSUNG, General Motors LLC, Beiersdorf AG, Johnson&Johnson. For his experience he used to provide expertise and advice for international organizations. During 2009-2010 he was selected as short-term Local Senior Expert of Georgian-European Policy and Legal Advice Centre (GEPLAC) and as UNDP National Consultant for Study on Piracy and Counterfeiting in Georgia.

Natia Burduli

Mrs. Burduli has been a Chief Legal Counsel in international investment company Hunnewell Partners LP (former Salford Georgia) for the past eight years. Leads and co-ordinates the real estate practices within the group. She specializes on transactions related to acquisition, sale and lease of immovable property; supervises all legal issues within the company. Ms. Burduli has dealt extensively with government agencies and has wide experience in negotiating with public authorities and counterparts. Furthermore, she has consulted a variety of public entities and non-governmental organizations on the general public administrative legislation of Georgia. Ms. Burduli has considerable experience in Corporate and Investment Law, Commercial Contract Negotiations, Real Estate law, Sale and Lease of Immovable Property, Constitutional law, Legislative drafting and adoption procedures, General Administrative Code and related issues, copyright and related rights.

Ms. Burduli has over 14 years of continuous professional experience and practice. During this period she extensively worked with various types of organizations operating in Georgia in different years of her professional career. Ms. Burduli worked as legal counsel for: the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), International Centre of Civic Culture, Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association, Finca Georgia -International Credit Organization, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Centre for Combating Criminality under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

Ms. Burduli`s professional experience is supported with solid academic background. Ms. Burduli holds General degree in Law from Tbilisi State University with the diploma in International Law. Ms. Burduli has undertaken additional studies in Advocacy Skills, Tax Law and Banking Law Courses at Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association; Legislative Drafting and Legislative Drafting Process courses at US Academy of Education Development. Ms. Burduli has successfully passed the Georgian Bar exam and is admitted to the Georgian Legal Bar. Ms. Burduli has taught law at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). Her lectures were covering issues of constitutional law, legislative drafting and adoption procedures, general administrative code and other related topics. She is an author of publications: ”Recommendations Aimed at Drafting New and Improved Election Legislation and Commentary to the Election Code of Georgia’’ and “Guide for Electorate and Trainers.”

Marina Meskhi 

Mrs. Meskhi Graduated from Faculty of Law of the Tbilisi State University. Since 2010 she is a Doctoral Degree Programs / PHD Program Student of Tbilisi State University. She holds a position of Director of the State Fund for Protection and Assistance of (Statutory) Victims of Human Trafficking.  

Mrs. Meskhi is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Tbilisi State University. Has sound experience in law drafting in Human Rights field. Since 2006, member of working groups for drafting piece of legislation in the field of Human Rights, Anti-Trafficking, Domestic Violence. Author of the books in Women’s Right, Property Rights and translations on Women’s Human Rights as well as several publications and scientific works.

Akaki  Beridze 

Mr. Akaki Beridze received bachelor degree in 2010 and master degree in 2013 in International Law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Akaki Beridze had worked as a lawyer at Georgian young lawyers association (2008-2011), after 2011 he was lawyer of LLC Getsadze and Pateishvili. During 2011-2012 he was appointed as a legal consultant of the State Cancellary of Georgian government. Since 2013 he is a chief specialist of legal, constitutional and judicial commission of the Supreme Council of Adjara Autonomous Republic. Mr. Beridze has participated in several international law moot courts, summers schools high-ranked and accredited by United Nations and European Union. His academic and professional interests focus on subjects of Public International law, investment and international private law.

Anano Tsintsabadze 

Ms. Tsintsabadze received her Law degree from Tbilisi State University, faculty of Law in 2006. In 2006 she completed Business law and Contract Law qualification courses in American University of Hawaii. She has been participating in Human Rights Standards qualification courses from OSCE mission Georgia and Georgian Yong Lawyers’ association in 2007-2012. In 2012 Ms. Tsintsabadze completed certified specialized course in Business Law, from Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA). In 2013 Anano participated in US State Commercial Law Development program, in certified seminar of International commercial dispute resolution program. She started her practice with International Law firm “Andronikashvili, Sachsen-Altenburg and partners.

Teona Diasamidze 

Ms. Diasamidze received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. She is a PhD student at Law at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Ms. Diasamidze is the Deputy Director of Faculty of Law at Samtskhe-Javakheti State Teaching University and at the same time she teaches the course in Democracy and Citizenship since 2012. She is an expert of one of the TEMPUS projects. From 2009 to 2010 she was an intern of Akhaltsikhe District Prosecution Office. From 2010 to 2011 she worked at Tbilisi Bureau of Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance of Georgia as an Intern-Lawyer. From 2011 to 2012 she was an Intern-Investigator at Investigation Service of Ministry of Finance of Georgia. Since 2013 Miss Diasamidze facilitates Trainings for Civic Educators about modern methods of teaching. 

Nino Mindiashvili 

Mrs. Mindiashvili graduated from the Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi, Faculty of Law in 2005 and completed the full study Programme with a major of Jurisprudence. She was awarded the qualification of Lawyer with an equal Master Degree. Since graduating from the University Mrs. Mindiashvili has been working for public Institutions. In 2005-2008 years she had been working as Chief Inspector at the Business Registry of the Ministry of Finance; during 2008-2012 had been working as The First Category of Advisor at the Department of Agreement Expertise for the Ministry of Justice. Currently, Nino Mindiashvili is employed by the National Bank of Georgia. She is a Lawyer at the Legal Department of the Bank. In addition to her practical experience, Mrs. Mindiashvili had been attended in many Professional Theoretical Courses both in Georgia and abroad.

Elene Sulkhanishvili 

Ms. Sulkhanishvili is a law faculty student at Tbilisi State University. As an active student, she was the winner of the championship in constitutional cases and the winner of Karl Popper Debate. During 2011-2013 she was a member and the director for legal research group at European Law Students’ Association (ELSA). She was the organizer of a large-scaled project – Moot Court Competition on Intellectual Property Law. Since 2012 she is working at the development company Arci on the position of lawyer. In 2012, during parliamentary elections in Georgia she worked at OSCE on the position of international observers’ assistant.

Elene is fluent in both English and French, good at Russian.

Marine Ghandilyan 

Ms. Ghandilyan is SAL Program Student from Yerevan, Armenia. She graduated from YSAU, Faculty of Law in 2002. During her University education as one of the best students of the faculty she got scholarship two years in succession. Within the period of her education she was cooperating with non-governmental organizations as a volunteer in assisting to socially disadvantaged people. In 2009 she took the Bar Exam and got the license of the attorney at law. In 2010 she established Law Company, where she is a partner attorney and director. She is working in the field of civil, family and administrative law. Ms. Ghandilyan is specialised in business law; is invited as an expert of family law in many projects.

Ovsanna Stepanyan 

Ms. Stepanyan graduated from Yerevan State University, Faculty of Law in 2002 with diploma with honor. During her education she got several fellowships as the best student of the faculty and the University. In 2001 she participated in program “Legal Clinic Education" and got the Certificate of honor. In summer 2001 she was the first student form the YSU who was chosen to participate in the international summer school “The Academy of Human rights” in Stavropol, Russia.

In 2007 she took the Bar exam and got the license of the attorney at law. She has been working in the field of business law, including international commercial law, contract, tax and customs law. As an expert she often participated in public discussions and was involved in the projects on revision of the legislation. She has been working with Governmental agencies since 2012. In January of 2012 she was invited to the State Revenue Committee in order to use her knowledge for improvement of the administration implemented by the tax inspectorates. In 2013 she was invited by the Ministry of Finance to work as a Deputy Head of the State Revenue Policy and Administration Methodology Department. Ms. Stepanyan is taking part in international negotiations, is involved in several inter-governmental working groups, is working on drafting amendments to the tax and customs legislation of Armenia.

Sophio Kurtauli 

Ms. Kurtauli graduated from Tbilisi State University. Since 2010 she has been working in Ministry of Justice of Georgia LEPL National Bureau of Enforcement (NBE). During her study at Tbilisi State University she was an intern in Tbilisi city court. She was a trainer in School of Law “Enforcement Law”. She has taken Bar Exam in civil law. Ms. Kurtauli was trained in Project Management and Effective Communication course with support of LEPL Training Centre of Justice, Secured Transactions in the USA and Georgia with support of Free University of Georgia and Washburn University. She is a main author of a studybook and the first book in Georgia about enforcement procedures “Observations on the Georgian enforcement system – the Georgian Enforcement system in its national and international context” funded by EU.

 Mariam Gogiashvili 

Ms. Gogiashvili is a third year law school student of Georgian-American University. Mariam attended “The Byron School of Tbilisi” in collaboration with the “International Byron Society” and received “Excellent Graduate Certificate in The English Language and Cultural Studies”. She is a member of non-governmental organization “Tolerance and Human Rights” since the January of 2013^th, also of European Student’s Forum AEGEE since 2011. In 2010 Mariam worked for Information agency “ExpressNews” as an interpreter of Georgian to English and English to Georgian. She was a participant of “Commonwealth Parliamentary Association” simulation organized by “Free Parliament”. Is participant of several training programs, international simposiums, international summer schools and youth summits. 

Narek Arushanyan 

Mr. Arushanyan obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in International Law from Yerevan State University. His professional experience started in 2006. Currently he is working as a lawyer for non-governmental organization “Children and Adolescents’ Social and Health Support Center”. His duties include working with young people, providing information about their rights, and solving their law-related problems. The scope of his interests includes Civil Law, International Law.

Sopiko Meshvelishvili 

Ms. Meshvelishvili is a lawyer with 5 years of experience in civil and administrative law. She has participated in number of projects and litigations involving contract law, company law, commercial law, banking law, family law, etc. She graduated from Ivane Javakhisvhili Tbilisi State University (Bachelor’s degree) and Caucasus University (Master’s degree in Civil law). During the study she was a deputy editor of the faculty newspaper “Akhalgazrda Iuritsi”. Currently works at the National Agency of Georgia in the legal department as a main specialist. Before joining National Agency of Georgia she was a lawyer at Eristavi Law Group and at Georgian Nab Noosh International. She also has a practice in Appeal Court of Tbilisi. She has passed Qualification Examination of Employees of Public Prosecutor’s Office, three months course for Assistant of Judges and Certification test, Qualification Examination for Lawyers with General Law Specialization. She has participated in number of trainings and courses: Tripartite Georgian-German-French Research Workshop organized by Potsdam University, Paris Ouest University and Caucasus University, Business Training Association, Defending Customers’ Rights in the Civil Court organized by the Educational Centre of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

Nino Lomaia   

Ms. Lomaia joined BP AGTR (Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Region) Legal Team as Paralegal in 2007 based in Tbilisi, Georgia. In her role as Paralegal, Nino is responsible for the wide variety of legal matters, such as ensuring compliance with local corporate requirements and dealing with banking compliance issues, giving advice on different employment, property and security issues as required. She has a primary responsibility for preparing Contingency Liability and Litigation reports and has a significant input in setting and managing AGTR Budget for outside legal expenses. 

In 2008, Nino Lomaia was given the opportunity to participate in Job Share program with BGI Legal where she was introduced to the peculiarities of the private practice. At the end of the same year Nino passed Georgian Bar Exam. Prior to joining BP, Nino worked at Telecom Georgia Ltd. Long Distance Telecommunications Company at different positions. During this period she closely collaborated with Georgian National Communications Commissions (GNCC) and local companies on different interconnection issues, as well as with various international telecommunication companies like AT&T, Sprint, Cable and Wireless, Siemens, OTE, ALCATEL etc. 

Ms. Lomaia holds her Bachelor Degree from the Tbilisi State University Department of Law and the Bachelor Degree in Philology in the Specialty of English. She is an alumnus of the United States Telecommunications Training Institute (2001) and Telecommunications Executive Management Institute of Canada (2003). 

In addition to her native Georgian, Nino speaks fluent Russian and English.

Vako Natsvlishvili 

Mr. Natsvlishvili manages Transparency and Accountability direction of Human Rights and Good Governance Program at Open Society – Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation). He has graduated from Georgian-American University and holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Law. Mr. Natsvlishvili is an author/co-author of various draft laws adopted by the Parliament of Georgia and, as a guest lecturer, teaches General Administrative Law at Georgian Technical University.

IIT, Chicago-Kent College of Law with School of American Law Announces Winter 2017 Enrolment for LL.M Program with ONE FULL Scholarship, 75 % Tuition Scholarships for Each Student & TWO 50% Scholarships.

 Announcement SAL Georgia winter enrollment 2017 October 2016 (PDF)

Chicago-Kent College of Law with School of American Law in Greece Announces Enrollment for LL.M program with Significant Scholarships for Balkan Countries’ Lawyers!

SAL Greece Winter Enrollment for Balkan Countries 2017