Below is an excerpt of a wide-ranging interview with Robert Amsterdam by the Estonian publication Diplomaatia:

How did you end up doing what you are doing? How do people all over the world find you?

I would have to say that in Thailand and Kyrgyzstan it was by word of mouth. As for Khodorkovsky, we did this major case that is still going on in Guatemala and that got a lot of attention over the years because it involved us representing a group who was prepared to take on the whole oligarchy, which we were prepared to do. That case has been something of a template case for what we did for Khodorkovsky, in Nigeria or for the Red Shirts in Thailand, in Kyrgyzstan and for other cases – we’ve been involved for the last year in a major dispute in the Czech Republic. So, it is really an amalgam of various roles that are not just legal in nature, but that also very much involve understanding politics.