| PRESS RELEASE FOR RELEASE: July 11, 2000, Tuesday, 10 A.M. EDT Contact:Melissa Owen Texas Attorney Launches Ambientelegal.com, First Latin American Environmental Law Database
Ambientelegal.com (Spanish for 'the legal environment') was launched today by Texas attorney Melissa Owen. The new database on Latin American environmental law targets Mexico and Brazil in this initial phase. Coverage of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and Peru is scheduled for rollout later this year. The company’s founder, Melissa Owen, is a bi-national Texas attorney who worked in the international and environmental law fields for Baker Botts, L.L.P. in Austin before launching ambientelegal.com. "This database grew out of my frustration with the lack of reliable information on environmental regulations in Mexico, Central and South America," said Ms. Owen. "As an attorney for U.S. companies, I had to scramble, using my Spanish and Portuguese, to try to find the answers my clients desperately needed. My goal with this new service is to take all the fear and the headaches out of the process, especially as more companies move south of the border and as those countries beef up enforcement of their laws." The site is unique in being completely user friendly to U.S. environmental engineers, lawyers, and consultants because all the documents are written by a multilingual environmental attorney in an English that translates not just words but concepts. Further, each fact is rigorously checked by a network of highly regarded Latin American lawyers in each of the respective countries. "This blend of my U.S. perspective and training with the local insight of my teammates, each of them experts in their country, ensures our reports are both accurate and understandable," added Ms. Owen. This one-of-a-kind new service offers subscribers access to a database of detailed original summaries of environmental regulations for each country. The reports include commentaries and will be updated several times a year. As a companion service, subscribers receive a weekly "News & Developments" survey on each country. Prices start at $1,500 per country for the first year and scale down with subscriptions for additional services.
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From "Spectrum: WEBSITES," Texas Bar Journal, September 2000 (Vol. 63, No. 8) (p. 724) "Texas attorney Melissa Owen has launched ambientelegal.com, an online database which is intended to provide reliable information on environmental regulations in Mexico and Central and South America. For a fee, users may access regulations and related commentary in English. Coverage of Mexico and Brazil is available now, with information on other South and Central American countries to follow later this year."
From "The Legal Environment", The Texas Lawyer, October 9, 2000 (p. 3) "Corpus Christi lawyer Melissa Owen has developed an online database -- ambientelegal.com -- to provide information on environmental regulations in Latin American countries. Owen, formerly with the international and environmental law section at Baker Botts in Austin, says the idea for the database grew out of her frustration with the lack of reliable data on environmental laws and activities in Mexico and other countries in Central and South America. 'My goal with this new service is to take all the fear and headaches out of the process, especially as more companies move south of the border and as those countries beef up enforcement of their laws,' Owen says. The name of the database means 'the legal environment' in Spanish, she says. For a fee, subscribers can access the database with summaries of environmental regulations in each country. Owen, a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, says she researches and writes the summaries, which are checked by lawyers in the country on which the report is based. In addition, subscribers can receive a weekly 'news and developments' report on each country. Owen says the service provides information on Mexico and Brazil, but she hopes to add Argentina later this year and Venezuela, Colombia, Chile and Peru by next summer, 'if all goes well.' " |
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