468 ABA Journal Asia articles.
Criticized for its almost 100 percent conviction rate, Japan’s legal system is in need of an overhaul, many believe. Among the critics is the country’s bar association, which condemned the…
Aug 27, 2007 9:52 PM CDT
Once upon a time, U.S.-based corporations routinely hired American law firms to do virtually all of their legal work. But today, using cheap foreign lawyers—or even American lawyers in lower-paid…
Aug 21, 2007 3:31 PM CDT
A lawyer from DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., has helped free a former Harvard classmate from a Chinese prison.
Jared Genser works on behalf of imprisoned dissidents through a boutique…
Aug 21, 2007 12:11 PM CDT
Investors hoping to make big money in Vietnam face risks, not the least of which is jail.
That’s the lesson learned by American businessman Hoan Nguyen, who sat in a…
Aug 14, 2007 4:10 PM CDT
Japan’s Supreme Court has affirmed a company’s right to mount a poison-pill defense to a corporate takeover.
The court ruled for Bull-Dog Sauce Co. in a suit by a hedge…
Aug 8, 2007 3:53 PM CDT
As of Sept. 1, Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, may no longer reincarnate himself—or recognize the reincarnation of others—without permission from China’s communist, atheist government.
That is one key…
Aug 3, 2007 9:29 PM CDT
Four months after he sought to remove Pakistan’s top judge from the bench, the country’s president is now trying to get back on his good side.
After a July 20…
Aug 1, 2007 6:31 PM CDT
The Khmer Rouge’s chief inquisitor was charged with crimes against humanity today by a Cambodian-United Nations tribunal.
The man widely known as Duch is the first official from the notorious…
Jul 31, 2007 2:36 PM CDT
A Microsoft lawyer who battles illegal copies of the company’s software sees “a real milestone” in yesterday’s seizure of more than $500 million worth of Chinese-made counterfeits.
The FBI and…
Jul 25, 2007 2:56 PM CDT
In addition to Pakistan’s suspended top judge, two sisters, both attorneys and longtime political activists, are among the emerging leaders in a lawyer-led movement to promote judicial independence and a…
Jul 19, 2007 12:04 AM CDT
The widow of a Wall Street Journal reporter abducted and murdered in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002 has sued his alleged killers, al-Qaida, and Pakistan’s biggest bank in federal court…
Jul 18, 2007 10:21 PM CDT
A suicide bomb blast today at a Pakistan rally for lawyers supporting the country’s embattled chief justice has killed at least 12 people.
Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry was not…
Jul 17, 2007 9:07 PM CDT
Broadening its expansion into Asia, a major Philadelphia firm has announced it will open two offices in Vietnam.
Duane Morris, a business firm with an attorney roster of 650, announced…
Jul 13, 2007 6:38 PM CDT
It isn’t just data entry, computer programming and some legal work that’s being outsourced to India these days.
Infertile couples from the U.S. and other foreign countries are now paying…
Jul 12, 2007 10:37 PM CDT
China has executed the former director of its Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes to approve medicines.
Zheng Xiaoyu was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth more than…
Jul 10, 2007 1:22 PM CDT
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