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Founded in 1907, United Press International is one of the leading providers of critical information to media outlets, businesses, government agencies and researchers in the world. It maintains operations in Lebanon, Hong Kong, London, Chile, Korea and Tokyo. The organization licenses and distributes content to newspapers, magazines, policy groups and academic institutions. It offers a range of products in news brief and analysis formats. United Press International maintains NewsTrack, which is a newswire that is comprised of more than five topic-specific channels, including top news, entertainment, business, health, science, sports and quirks. Its Emerging Threats division features perspectives on terrorism and insurgency, pandemic influenza and cyber threats. The organization serves clients in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. It is owned by News World Communications, which is a global multimedia company.

The Institute for International Economics is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution devoted to the study of international economic policy. Since 1981 the Institute has provided timely, objective analysis and concrete solutions to key international economic problems. Its audience includes government officials and legislators, business and labor leaders, management and staff at international organizations, university-based scholars and their students, other research institutions and nongovernmental organizations, the media and the public at large. Its agenda emphasizes global macroeconomic topics, international money and finance, trade and related social issues, investment and the international implications of new technologies. The Institute moved into its own award-winning building, which includes full conference and videoconferencing facilities in Washington, D.C., in 2001.

Since 1986, the only national organization exclusively dedicated to reforming the civil justice system. A nationwide network of state-based liability reform coalitions backed by 135, 000 grassroots supporters. An unparalleled track record of legislative success. ATRA was founded in 1986 by the American Council of Engineering Companies. Shortly thereafter, the American Medical Association joined them. Since that time, ATRA has been working to bring greater fairness, predictability and efficiency to America's civil justice system. Those efforts have resulted in the enactment of state and federal laws that make the system fairer for everyone. Further, ATRA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with affiliated coalitions in more than 40 states. We are the only national organization dedicated exclusively to tort and liability reform through public education and the enactment of legislation. ATRA's membership is diverse and includes nonprofits, small and large companies, as well as state and national trade, business, and professional associations. Click here for sample list of members. ATRA is the only national organization exclusively dedicated to repairing our civil justice system. ATRA fights in Congress, in state legislatures, and in the courts to make the system fairer. We identify and champion elected officials and judges who want to fix the system. In the media, we serve as the national voice of the civil justice reform movement. Today, America's $246 billion civil justice system is the most expensive in the industrialized world. Aggressive personal injury lawyers target certain professions, industries, and individual companies as profit centers. They systematically recruit clients who may never have suffered a real illness or injury and use scare tactics, combined with the promise of awards, to bring these people into massive class action suits. They effectively tap the media to rally sentiment for multi-million-dollar punitive damage awards. This leads many companies to settle questionable lawsuits just to stay out of court. These lawsuits are bad for business ; they are also bad for society. They compromise access to affordable health care, punish consumers by raising the cost of goods and services, chill innovation, and undermine the notion of personal responsibility. The personal injury lawyers who benefit from the status quo use their fees to perpetuate the cycle of lawsuit abuse. They have reinvested millions of dollars into the political process and in more litigation that acts as a drag on our economy. Some have compared the political and judicial influence of the personal injury bar to a fourth branch of government. ATRA works to counter that influence by challenging this status quo and continually leading the fight for common-sense reforms in the states, the Congress, and the court of public opinion. Since ATRA was founded in 1986, more than 45 states have enacted portions of ATRA'ss legislative agenda. On Capitol Hill, ATRA has a strong track record of enacting civil justice reform laws, including liability protection for teachers and principals ( enacted into law in 2002 ) and immunity for volunteers ( enacted into law in 1997 ).We continue to fight in Congress for class action reform and health care liability reform. ATRA's goal is not just to pass laws. We work to change the way people think about personal responsibility and civil litigation. ATRA programs shine a media spotlight on lawsuit abuse and the pernicious political influence of the personal injury bar. ATRA redefines the victim, showing how lawsuit abuse affects all of us by cutting off access to health care, costing consumers through the "lawsuit tax, " and threatening the availability of products like vaccines. Our innovative "Judicial Hellholes" program has curbed lawsuit abuse in the most egregious trial courts.