Trying a case is rarely easy. Trying a case in a foreign country with unfamiliar procedural rules is particularly challenging. No one knows that better than Steven Bauer, who spent November successfully defending a Norwegian businessman with ties to accounting firm KPMG LLP against money-laundering charges in an Oslo court.
Bauer, the San Francisco-based global co-chairman of Latham & Watkins' white-collar defense and investigations practice, quickly learned that he had to rein in the courtroom style that helped him win cases in the United States and adjust to the quirks of Norway's system.
