478 ABA Journal Asia articles.
Photographs of an alleged pedophile posted on the Internet by Interpol in what reportedly was the first such effort ever made by the international law enforcement agency have reaped immediate…
Oct 16, 2007 4:27 PM CDT
A Chinese human rights lawyer says he was abducted, beaten and warned to leave Beijing last weekend.
Li Heping told the New York Times that after…
Oct 3, 2007 3:35 PM CDT
The starting annual salary for a graduate of one of India’s top law schools working in an outsourced position for a major U.S. law firm is less than an American…
Oct 1, 2007 9:51 PM CDT
Inside India’s hottest legal outsourcing team
Oct 1, 2007 8:43 PM CDT
Saying that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t notice for months that its computer system had been attacked by hackers, a Congressman who works closely with the department is now…
Sep 24, 2007 7:12 PM CDT
Corrected: Two New York City-based corporate partners of Weil Gotshal & Manges are moving to Hong Kong to open a new firm office there, and the firm also plans a…
Sep 6, 2007 8:06 PM CDT
Abortions are illegal in the Philippines, but that doesn’t prevent women from having an estimated 500,000 annually. Some 80,000 reportedly are treated in hospitals each year for complications from induced…
Sep 5, 2007 3:29 PM CDT
London-based Lovells has formed an alliance with nine Chinese law firms to provide joint legal services.
The new Sino-Global Legal Alliance is “a genuine first,” Lovells’ Asia regional managing partner,…
Sep 5, 2007 1:04 PM CDT
The law firm soon to be known as Dewey & LeBoeuf is opening a Hong Kong office.
LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae had planned to open…
Sep 5, 2007 11:20 AM CDT
Jones Day has hired four intellectual property lawyers for its Hong Kong office from Baker & McKenzie’s office in the same city.
They are Peggy Cheung, Anita Leung, Chiang Ling…
Aug 31, 2007 10:21 AM CDT
The government of India and attorneys throughout the country reportedly are considering a proposal to make it easier for foreign law firms to establish a presence there.
Under possible legislation…
Aug 29, 2007 12:09 AM CDT
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
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