Background
Setrakian, Berge was born on April 14, 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon. Son of Hemayak and Arminee Setrakian. came to the United States 1976.
Setrakian, Berge was born on April 14, 1949 in Beirut, Lebanon. Son of Hemayak and Arminee Setrakian. came to the United States 1976.
Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon. Université de Lyon, France (Diplôme d"Etudes Supérieures de Doctorat en Droit, 1974. Licence en Droit Francais, 1972).
F.I.E.D.C., Strasbourg, France (Diplôme d"Etudes Supérieures de Droit Comparé, 1974).
Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon (Licence en Droit Libanais, 1972). Spoken languages: Arabic, Armenian, English and French.
Worked at Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan Limited Liability Partnership (New York, New York) specializing in General Practice including International Commercial Law. Admitted to the bar, 1972, Lebanon. 1983, New York; (also licensed by the New York State Court of Appeals as a Legal Consultant on Foreign Law, 1978).
Registered as foreign lawyer with the Law Society, England, 1994.
Author: "Arbitration and Settlement of Disputes Under Islamic Law and Local Laws of the Middle Eastern Countries," Mideast Executive Report, 1978. Member: New York State, American and Beirut Bar Associations.
American Foreign Law Association. Military: ege Year">1972) (Also Of Counsel, Tyan & Associes, Beirut, Lebanon).
Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan was formed in 1993 and has offices in New York, Greenwich, Newark, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, London and Tokyo.
Our practice combines those of Whitman & Ransom and Breed, Abbott & Morgan. Whitman & Ransom was founded in 1919 and Breed, Abbott & Morgan was founded in 1898. The firm conducts a national and international commercial legal practice providing advice to corporations, individuals and other entities in the United States and throughout the world.
Board of directors, vice president, secretary Armenian General Benevolent Union, New York City, since 1977. President Worldwide Youth organizations, since 1978. Board directors Armenian Assembly of America, Washington, 1978-1987.
Board directors American Task Force for Lebanon, since 1988. Board directors American U. Armenia, since 1992. Member American Bar Association, New York Bar Association, Beirut Bar Association, United Kingdom Law Society, American Foreign Law Association, Englewood Field Club.
Married Vera L. Nazarian, November 22, 1975. Children: Ani, Lara.