Ethical Issues for Alternative Business Structures and Management Services Organizations

Mr. Crystal is a scholar and a practicing attorney. He has advised individuals and entities, including major law firms, on matters of contract law and professional ethics and has lectured throughout the world on these subjects. Mr. Crystal frequently serves as expert witness or consultant in multimillion dollar cases. He is a Class of 1969 Professor Emeritus of Professional Responsibility and Contract Law, University of South Carolina. Mr. Crystal taught for 34 years at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He currently teaches Professional Responsibility at NYU as an adjunct professor. Mr. Crystal concentrates in the areas of professional responsibility and contract law. He has been a member of the South Carolina Bar Ethics Advisory Committee for more than 20 years and served as chair of the Committee from 2002-2003. Mr. Crystal has consulted on matters of Contracts and Professional Responsibility for almost 40 years and served as a testifying or consulting expert in more than 100 cases. In 2011, he co-founded, together with Ms. Giannoni-Crystal, Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal LLC.

Ms. Giannoni-Crystal is a dually-qualified U.S. and Italian attorney. In her vicennial career she has provided assistance to a wide range of clients (industrial, commercial and technological companies, banks & financial institutions, law firms) both domestically and internationally. Ms. Giannoni-Crystal's practice has focused on transactional work and contractual issues (commercial law, banking law, Internet law, business law, international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, constitution and reorganization of companies, financing, and property development). She is also a “lawyer for lawyers”, assisting law firms in bridging activities Civil Law-Common law, and supporting other lawyers in international litigation (including international privileges), issues of cross border ethics, and international transactions. After serving as a legal consultant for the Italian Industrial Association and as attorney for Deloitte Legal for several years, Ms. Giannoni-Crystal opened her own practice, where she regularly assisted major companies and international groups.