474 ABA Journal Asia articles.
Apparently weary of seeing clients defect to to low-cost companies in India and elsewhere when it came time to perform so-called legal process work, at least one major U.S. law…
Feb 11, 2008 6:06 PM CST
A Russian lawyer who is a well-known critic of the government there is seeking political asylum in the U.S. because of his legal work.
Boris Kuznetsov, 64, claims he is…
Feb 6, 2008 6:13 PM CST
Updated: British bar groups are calling for the release and reinstatement of judges and lawyers who remain imprisoned in Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf’s Nov. 3 suspension of the constitution…
Jan 25, 2008 4:39 PM CST
Baker & McKenzie has formed an antitrust practice group in its Tokyo office in advance of a likely broadening of Japanese antitrust rules.
The firm’s Tokyo managing partner, Jeremy Pitts,…
Jan 24, 2008 1:29 PM CST
One of London’s biggest and best-known law firms has restructured its litigation management team, adding a steering group of international partners and a newly created firmwide general counsel to help…
Jan 23, 2008 5:53 PM CST
More than 10 weeks after the president of Pakistan suspended the country’s constitution and declared what many considered martial law, the chief justice of the country’s supreme court remains under…
Jan 19, 2008 12:53 AM CST
In many ways, it looked like a standard bar association meeting. But the woman clad in an orange tutu and thigh-high black stockings offered one clue that the attorneys attending…
Jan 8, 2008 8:29 PM CST
The escalator accident that left a 4-year-old’s hand severely injured, happened in China. But American jurors decided the case, this week awarding $3.35 million after a trial in Massachusetts.
In…
Jan 4, 2008 9:37 PM CST
In a move that will boost Mayer Brown’s presence in Asia, Mayer Brown announced Friday that is has agreed to merge with Hong Kong’s venerable banking and finance firm Johnson…
Dec 21, 2007 6:25 PM CST
The globalization of law practice is a two-way street, and, just as U.S. law firms are seeking to establish a presence in China, Chinese law firms are looking to set…
Dec 19, 2007 7:04 PM CST
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has acquired a three-lawyer Los Angeles boutique and is sending one of the partners from the new acquisition to Tokyo to launch a new…
Dec 12, 2007 12:32 PM CST
Foley & Lardner will expand into China with a Shanghai office led by a partner recruited from Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Partner Catherine Sun jumped to Foley earlier this year…
Dec 6, 2007 4:06 PM CST
Although bar groups throughout the world, including the ABA, have made unprecedented efforts to lobby for the restoration of the rule of law in Pakistan, a deposed Pakistan supreme court…
Dec 5, 2007 11:22 PM CST
The president of the American Bar Association is calling on fellow attorneys to sign an online petition seeking the restoration of the rule of law in Pakistan.
“I urge you…
Dec 4, 2007 10:22 PM CST
A high-profile real estate lawyer from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom collapsed and died at an airport in Australia last week after a drug sniffing dog took an interest…
Dec 4, 2007 12:54 PM CST
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