Good Practice

Auld lang syne – resolving to reconnect in 2022

Issue 20.
February 2022

Author
John Pisa-Relli
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John Pisa-Relli currently serves as consulting legal counsel to a multinational aerospace and defense company headquartered in the United States, where he advises on a wide range of trade compliance matters. For the previous ten years, he directed the internal trade compliance program for Accenture, the world’s largest business consulting firm. Prior to joining Accenture, John served in the US federal government, practiced law privately, and served as in-house director of trade compliance with a multinational aerospace and defense group headquartered in Europe. Connect with John on LinkedIn..

Around the world, at the stroke of midnight on January 1st, many people sing an 18th-century Scottish ballad to celebrate the arrival of a new calendar year. It’s fair to say that most of them don’t really know what they are singing, or what it precisely means. But they know it is a traditional way both to bid farewell to the old year and to welcome the new one.

The song is “Auld Lang Syne”, which sets a Scots-language poem by the celebrated poet Robert Burns to a traditional folk tune. “Aul...

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