Bruce has decades of experience in international trade law and has successfully served his clients in diverse capacities, from classification and due diligence, to ITAR compliance and drawback. He has significant expertise with importing and exporting high tech products.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Bruce was an Import Specialist at the U.S. Customs Service in Los Angeles for seven years. During this period, he was promoted to Team Leader at LAX. Bruce then joined Hughes Aircraft Company, where he worked in various positions related to import and export compliance. He went on to Hughes Space & Communications Company and The Boeing Company – all in export and import compliance positions. Bruce served on the Commercial Operations Advisory Committee to CBP and the Private Sector Advisory Group at the World Customs Organization. He holds a customs broker license and is a U.S. Army veteran.
George Alfonso has provided both individuals and businesses with his unique brand of “Concierge Counsel” through the he founded over twenty-five years ago. His focus includes complex commercial drafting and negotiation, corporate structure counsel, creditor bankruptcy representation, commercial litigation and arbitration as well as appellate representation, including oral argument before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Alfonso has also been retained as an international law expert in litigation both in the U.S. and internationally.
Mr. Alfonso has been Of Counsel to Braumiller Law Firm, PLLC for over half-a-decade, representing Braumiller clients regarding complex international third-party commercial contract drafting and negotiations as well as pre-litigation/pre-arbitration dispute resolution.