Margaret Chisholm Marsh

During her residency in our Brussels office, Ms. Marsh advised a variety of U.S. clients on the development and implementation of EU legislation, especially as it related to the New Economy. She focused on the progressive liberalization of the EU telecommunications sector and the development of regulations governing e-commerce, as well as on EU trade policy and regulation. Ms. Marsh also advised clients on EU regulation of certain marking, transport, industrial, consumer and labor issues. Before joining Akin Gump, Ms. Marsh served as a research associate at the National Economic Commission, a blue-ribbon panel chaired by Robert S. Strauss and Drew Lewis, chartered by Congress to draft a deficit reduction plan. Ms. Marsh received her A.B. cum laude in both French language and literature and international relations from Smith College in 1987. From 1985 to 1986 she studied in Paris at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and at the Sorbonne. She received her J.D. in 1994 from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as a student attorney and in the Appellate Litigation Clinic. During law school, she worked in Washington and Tallinn, Estonia, with a team led by the Estonian Minister of Justice to assist Estonia in its promulgation of laws compatible with a market-based economy. Ms. Marsh is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade and is a member of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia Bars.