Through the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, International Relations Committee, CP&M regularly hosts delegates from across the world.

• The firm recently hosted a prominent government official from China. Jing Wang, a legal scholar from Beijing, teaches civil law to provincial governors from throughout China at the Community Party School. She was among numerous lawyers and judges who were dispatched across the country as part of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers rule of law delegation. In addition to participating in firm and community events, Professor Wang visited with former partners U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston and Superior Court Judge Marie Weiner, and State Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin. She stayed at the home of Diane and Frank Pitre while in California.
   
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  Adrianna Morganti with CP&M's Mark Molumphy
  Adrianna Morganti, a member of the Rome-based law firm of Guttieres & Remeddi, immersed herself in the U.S. legal system and American culture during a two-week visit to San Mateo and San Francisco Counties as a guest of CP&M. Ms. Morganti was one of eight Italian lawyers who participated in the IATL Cultural Exchange Program to learn from experienced American attorneys, witness trials and study the legal system. Specializing in international family law, Ms. Morganti said the exchange program is a special educational experience that helps build ties between Italian attorneys and their American peers. Ms. Morganti, who is fluent in Italian, French and English, is a graduate of the University of Studies of Rome (La Sapienza) where her thesis was "Constitutional Problems of Decency Protection." She successfully passed the written and oral Rome bar examinations, and continued her studies in Great Britain and France. She is a member of the Rome Bar Association.
   
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  Kang Yu, director of the Division of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Peoples Republic of China, spent two weeks in San Mateo and San Francisco Counties studying the American judicial system, meeting with lawyers, academics, judges and others. Kang said during his visit that he was looking for parts of American law that may be beneficial to China, including those protecting the rights of individuals. China, he said, wants to study the U.S. practice of the legal principle rule of law and make China a country ruled by law. Kang attended several trials in San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, saying he was especially interested in the jury selection process and how the jury fulfilled its judicial role. Kang received his LLM degree in International Law from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, after going to Harbin University in China. He has authored several publications on comparative law and reports directly to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Peoples Republic of China.
   
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  Former CP&M partner and now San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Marie S. Weiner and Professor Xhang Zhangjun at the law firm’s library.
  Professor Zhang Zhangjun’s visit to CP&M was designed to focus on the American judicial system in general and on corporation, securities and banking law in particular. Zhang, who selected the name Kings Zhang as his western name, is the author of more than 50 articles concerning corporation, banking and securities law, including his doctoral dissertation On Financial Regulation and Supervision Law, published by Law Publishing House, 1998. Since 1999, Zhang has served as a professor at the prestigious Central Party School of the Peoples Republic of China. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Law School of Renmin University of China in 1997 and spent the next two years in postdoctoral work in economics at Renmin University of China.
   
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  CP&M partner Steven N. Williams with a senior education official at the Communist Party School in Beijing.
  Steven N. Williams of CP&M was part of a delegation of the Academy to visit Beijing, China. The visit included meetings with senior officials from the Department of Justice and veteran education dignitaries. The goal of the Academy is to cultivate the science of jurisprudence, promote reforms in the law, promote the Rule of Law internationally, and elevate the standards of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession.