Frank A. Orban, III
forban@dhlaw.com
Complete list of Mr. Orban's selected legal publications.

Frank A. Orban, III has been engaged in the international law and business since 1968.  His experience covers a wide range foreign trade, customs, export controls, licensing and investment law areas relating to the U.S., Eastern and Western Europe, China and the former Soviet Union. 

Mr. Orban has held senior legal positions in U.S. and foreign multinational corporations, including general counsel of News International plc, London and international counsel at Armstrong World Industries, Inc.  In addition, he has served in the U.S. and foreign governments, including being appointed by the Reagan Administration to the senior diplomatic post as one of the American negotiators in the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear Arms and Space Talks in Geneva.  As a recognized expert on China, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, he has lectured and written extensively and has been an advisor to the U.S. and foreign governments on various foreign trade, investment and development issues.  Among major clients represented by Mr. Orban is the Government of the State Union of Serbia & Montenegro (former Yugoslavia). 

He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a formerly taught international and comparative law at the University of Virginia Law School. 

He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

He is also a former member of the U.S. State Department's Private International Law Advisory Committee, the Trade Policy Committee of the U.S. National Association of Manufacturers and the Board of the American Corporate Counsel Association as well as founder and chair of its International Legal Affairs Committee.  He is currently a Vice President and Director of the U.S.-Serbia & Montenegro Business Council and of the International Catholic Lawyers Society as well as a Board Member of the Ethics & Public Policy Center, Washington, DC. 

Recent articles by Mr. Orban include "Legal Globalization: The Challenges for In-House Counsel,"  ACCA Docket 19, no. 2, 2001; and "International Legal Malpractice in a Global Economy:  A Growing Phenomenon," International Legal Practitioner , Vol. 29 No. 2, July 2004.