South Africa!

Over the weekend I was assigned to do some research on South Africa. The reason for this research is because the firm is acquiring a new client, a wealthy surgeon from South Africa who is coming to Cleveland to look into our advance health care technologies. He also owns a vineyard in South Africa and sells his wine commercially. Because he is an invidual of high net worth, he is coming to the firm for his trust/estate planning and the security of the assets he is bringing to America. In my research I created a brief overview of colonization, apartheid, and the rise of the Dutch Afrikaners to power. I then created a structural outline of modern South Africa including the culture, values, and the governmental structure. This familiarity with the country the client is coming from is so important because in order to teach him how the law/government works in our country, it is necessary to relate it to him in terms he can understand from his own country. I never thought I would be researching a different country on my senior project, but it was a nice break from the usual paperwork and legal research I have been completing over the past couple of weeks. I am hoping to possibly meet this surgeon before the end of my project, he sounds so interesting!!!