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Established 1999/Civil litigation on six continents
They are counting
on you to back down.
Global Law Network is a civil firm built for contested matters. For more than twenty five years we have litigated fraud, defamation, harassment, family and immigration cases against opponents who assumed the other side would run out of money, patience or nerve.
Retained for
Inquiries are read by an attorney every day, including weekends. Emergency applications are reviewed the day they arrive.
25+
Years litigating civil matters
40+
Jurisdictions engaged
3,100+
Civil matters handled
94%
Resolved before verdict
The firm
Twenty five years of taking the cases other firms return.
We opened in 1999 with a narrow proposition: represent people and companies in civil disputes that are already hostile, already complicated, or already spread across more than one country. That is still the entire practice.
Our lawyers have tried cases, argued appeals and obtained emergency relief in courts on six continents. We work with admitted local counsel where we are not admitted ourselves, and we keep strategy in one place rather than handing files off and hoping. Clients deal with the attorney litigating the matter.
We are not a volume practice and we do not accept every inquiry. The cases we take, we prepare as though a jury will hear them, because the credible threat of trial is what produces settlements worth signing.
Practice areas
Six groups. One civil practice.
Matters rarely stay in one category. A defamation claim becomes a harassment case, a divorce becomes an asset investigation. We staff accordingly.
01
Civil Litigation
Contract, fraud, business tort and multi jurisdiction disputes handled by trial counsel who prepare every file as though a jury will see it.
02
Immigration
Removal defense, family and employment petitions, appeals and the cross border harassment cases that most immigration practices refuse to touch.
03
Divorce and Family Litigation
High conflict and high asset divorce, custody, support and international family disputes, litigated with forensic discipline.
04
Defamation
Libel, slander and online reputation attacks pursued for damages, retraction and removal, including anonymous and foreign publishers.
05
Harassment and Stalking
Protective orders, civil damages claims and coordinated law enforcement referrals for targets of harassment, stalking and surveillance.
06
Other Civil Matters
Privacy, employment, fraud recovery, estate and probate conflicts, professional negligence and cross border enforcement work.
Practice Area 04
Defamation: a lie about you is a claim, and the clock is already running.
Defamation is a false statement of fact, published to others, that damages your reputation. Calling you difficult is opinion. Stating that you stole from a client, falsified records, assaulted someone or hold a criminal history you do not have is a statement of fact, and it is actionable.
The cases that do real damage are rarely one post. They are campaigns: coordinated reviews, fake accounts, messages sent to your employer and clients, and content built to surface whenever someone searches your name. We litigate the campaign as a whole and pursue damages, retraction and removal at the same time.
Defamation carries some of the shortest filing deadlines in civil law, often one year and sometimes less. Evidence disappears faster than that. If something false about you is live right now, the useful window is measured in weeks.
What we pursue
- False statements presented as fact, not opinion
- Coordinated review and social media campaigns
- Anonymous accounts unmasked through subpoena
- Content engineered to rank against your name
- Statements to your employer, clients or licensing body
- Foreign publishers and offshore hosts
1 yr
or less to file in many jurisdictions, running from the date of publication
Practice Area 05
Harassment and stalking: the pattern is the evidence.
Any single message can be explained away. That is the point of a pattern. Repeated contact after you asked it to stop, surveillance of your movements, approaches to your family or your employer, a new account every time you block one: taken together, this is a course of conduct that courts recognize and restrain.
Modern harassment is physical and digital at once, so we treat device forensics as standard work. Tracking hardware on vehicles, stalkerware on phones, shared cloud accounts left in place after a relationship ended, and location data embedded in what the harasser posts themselves.
We pursue protective and restraining orders first, then damages, so the conduct carries a financial consequence and not merely an instruction. Where the behavior is criminal, we prepare referral packages investigators can act on and keep the civil case moving in parallel.
Social media harassment is not a platform problem, it is a federal one. Once threats, a coordinated pileon or stalking behavior cross a state line, federal law applies: interstate cyberstalking under 18 U.S.C. 2261A, interstate threats under 18 U.S.C. 875(c), telecommunications harassment under 47 U.S.C. 223, and a private federal claim worth $150,000 in liquidated damages under 15 U.S.C. 6851 when intimate images are shared without consent. Section 230 shields the platform. It has never shielded the person posting, and neither does an alias.
Signs of a course of conduct
- Contact that continues after you asked it to stop
- Appearing where you live, work or collect your children
- A new account created each time you block one
- Messages to your family, colleagues or clients
- Tracking hardware, spyware or shared cloud accounts
- Threats framed as warnings or jokes
Keep everything. Screenshots with timestamps, call logs, voicemails, delivery receipts and witness names are what turn a complaint into an order.
Harassment, threats and crimes do not stop at the border, and neither should your case. If someone is harassing, threatening or victimizing you, their citizenship or immigration status is not a shield. It is a fact we investigate and use.
We pursue every available civil remedy: protective and restraining orders, claims for damages, injunctive relief that reaches conduct originating abroad, and coordination with the appropriate law enforcement or immigration authorities when a perpetrator’s status is relevant to your case.
We also represent clients on the other side of that equation, where an accusation is being used as leverage in an immigration or family dispute. Either way, the work is the same: establish the facts, document them, and put them in front of the body with the power to act.
How we work
Preparation is the aggression.
File to win, not to posture
Pleadings are drafted against the evidence we can actually prove, with the trial theory already written.
Move first on protection
Restraining orders, injunctions, asset freezes and travel restrictions are sought in days when the facts justify them.
Follow it across borders
Foreign defendants, offshore assets and cross border conduct are pursued with admitted local counsel under our strategy.
Contact
Bring us the file. We will tell you where you stand.
Send the facts, the dates and any deadline you are facing. An attorney reads every submission and responds within one business day, sooner when the matter is urgent.
- Response
- Inquiries are read by an attorney every day, including weekends. Emergency applications, protective orders and injunctions are reviewed the day they arrive.