Stephen McGarry, BA, MA, JD, LLM (Taxation) has a broad background in international law, global business and the Internet. As in-house counsel for a Fortune 200 company, he was responsible for compliance in over 50 countries. His experience and expertise with building global professional services networks, including World Services Group (WSG) and Lex Mundi, is unmatched. As the founder of WSG he grew it to more than 23,000 professionals in over 650 offices. As the founder he grew Lex Mundi to become the world's largest law firm network whose 160 members now have 23,000 attorneys in 600 offices. WSG and Lex Mundi have more than 2% of all the lawyers on earth whose members bill their clients an estimated $21 billion dollars annually. They are the world's two largest networks after the "Big Four" accounting firms. McGarry has spotted future trends - particularly on legal practice and the Internet. At the dawn of the Internet in 1994 he conceived of HG.org, a site for all the world's law-related information. Today, HG.org is one of the world's largest non-subscription legal sites with more than 10 million pages of edited content. Its law firm directory has 77,000 law firms covering all 180 countries and 4,500 cities. An expert witness directory covers 1,500 expertises, including more than 700 diseases and medical conditions. Monthly there are more than 1,400,000 unique users. Its pages are generally found among the top 10 search result positions for everything related to law, law firms and lawyers. McGarry has written extensively on the global legal profession. He has met in-person with over 400 law firms in more than 100 countries and every US state and Canadian province. He was admitted by exam to the state bars of Minnesota, Texas and Louisiana. Languages studied: French, Spanish, and German.He has been featured in the: Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, IFLR, National Law Journal, Legal Business, Financial Times and other publications.