Being a lawyer in a desert area on the border of the U.S. and Mexico comes with many challenges. To do business on both sides of the Americas requires much skill. To be a lawyer with clients and lawsuits on both sides of the border is a completely different story. Sometimes you have to be a negotiator, sometimes you have to be a conciliator. Sometimes you have to be a gunslinger as a lawyer. That is why we call Mike Mandig el pistolero. ¨Without guns and without violence¨Mike has said of this image.

Mr. Mandig received his J.D., B.S. and B.A. degrees at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the American Association of Trial Attorneys and member of the Association of Trial Attorneys of Arizona. He has been a professor at the University of Arizona, College of Law, and developed international litigation and dispute resolution courses for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Proyecto ACCESO. He has trained hundreds of law students and students and lawyers from all over the Americas in the skills that a lawyer needs in the era of globalization.