Mr. Pierce is a partner at WilmerHale, LLP in the firm's Litigation/Controversy and Securities Departments. He is the leader of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group in the New York office, and he divides his time between the firm’s New York and London offices. Mr. Pierce is a founding member of the International Arbitration Club of New York, a member of the Committee on International Commercial Dispute Resolution at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of the Federal Bar Council and a member of various international arbitration associations around the world (the International Bar Association (Committee D - Arbitration and ADR), the Association Suisse de l’Arbitrage, the Section of International Law and Practice of the American Bar Association and the International Arbitration Association in Paris). Mr. Pierce is a former Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Young Leader of the American Council on Germany. Mr. Pierce is a frequent writer and lecturer on issues related to international dispute resolution.