Munger, Tolles & Olson litigation partner Jerry Roth, who is almost four months into his yearlong tenure as the president of the Paris-based legal, non-governmental organization Union Internationale des Avocats, is gearing up to host a summit in his home base of San Francisco next month on the growing international flavor of business disputes. The summit, titled “Cross-Border Litigation in the Digital Economy” will feature a day and half of panels starting March 12 focusing on the unique challenges that going international is raising for litigators and the in-house lawyers who hire and manage them.

In the run-up to next month’s conference, The Recorder caught up with Roth to discuss the new issues raised by the globalization of litigation and the community of lawyers coming together to address them.