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Simpson Thacher Poaches China Leaders from UK Magic Circle Firms for New Hong Kong Practice

New York-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has had an office in Hong Kong since 1993. But, until now, it only practiced United States law there. That will soon change, following the firm’s raid on two top United Kingdom-based firms to poach practice leaders for a new Hong Kong practice, reports…

Apr 29, 2011 9:12 PM CDT

Harvard Law Fellow Is Likely Winner of Election to Lead Tibetan Exile Government

Harvard Law School fellow Lobsang Sangay may soon have a new position—as leader of the Tibetan government in exile. Sangay is favored to win the election for Tibetan prime minister that was held Sunday, the Boston Globe reports. The results won’t be announced until late April. Sangay has never been…

Mar 24, 2011 10:30 AM CDT

Harvard Professor Announces Launch of Project to Study Impact of Emerging Economies on Lawyers

David B. Wilkins, one of the nation’s leading thinkers on where the legal profession is headed, received the outstanding scholar award Saturday from the fellows of the American Bar Foundation. But the Harvard Law School professor is hardly about to rest on his laurels. Instead, Wilkins used the occasion of…

Feb 13, 2011 7:57 AM CST

Quarles & Brady Opens First Foreign Office, in Shanghai

In operation in Milwaukee for almost 120 years, Quarles & Brady has been a rapidly expanding presence in Arizona and Chicago in recent years. Now the 450-attorney firm is planting its flag on foreign soil for the first time. After establishing a China practice group in 2007, it is opening…

Jan 20, 2011 9:11 PM CST

Breaking China

WTO complaint could end the ‘Great Firewall’ Internet ban

Nov 1, 2010 9:10 AM CDT

Jailed Chinese Dissident Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo probably won’t be told that he is the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, his wife observes, and it’s unclear how he will receive the $1.46 million prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee is recognizing Liu for his “his long and nonviolent struggle for fundamental human…

Oct 8, 2010 11:29 AM CDT

Hong Kong Is Law Firm Battleground, Davis Polk Partner Says

Seventeen lawyers from Davis Polk & Wardwell were among the record 224 lawyers who took the Hong Kong bar exam last year. Davis Polk partner William Barron was one of them, Bloomberg reports. “Hong Kong has become the battleground for the world’s law firms,” Barron told the wire service. “This…

Jul 8, 2010 2:38 PM CDT

Travel Agent’s Input Led to New Houston Office for Blank Rome

Blank Rome uses one agency to make arrangements for lawyers traveling on business. So when the firm was deciding where to focus its latest expansion efforts, it sought input from the Lawyers Travel Service, co-chairman Alan Hoffman tells the Law & Finance blog of the Philadelphia Business Journal. The travel…

Jun 7, 2010 4:08 PM CDT

Seeming Case-Related Slayings This Week: 3 Judges, 2 Clerks, 1 Lawyer, 11 Others

A magistrate judge and a court clerk were shot to death today in Belgium as they were in a courtroom working on a civil case near the Palais de Justice in Brussels. It is the first time in the country’s history that a magistrate has been killed in a courtroom,…

Jun 3, 2010 7:06 PM CDT

Chinese Law Firm Opens Silicon Valley Office With 2 Perkins Coie Partners

A leading Chinese law firm has opened a Silicon Valley office staffed by the former managing partners of the Perkins Coie law offices in Beijing and Shanghai. In addition to James Zhu and Zhaohui “Zoe” Wang, the Beijing-based Jun He Law Offices has also hired former Jones Day counsel Steven…

Jun 3, 2010 1:55 PM CDT

Gunman Kills at Least 2 Judges, Wounds Workers in China Courthouse

Angry over the property settlement in his divorce case three years ago, a bank guard shot and killed three judges in a different court in China today as they met to discuss a case. Zhu Jun, 46, also wounded three other court workers before killing himself, reports Agence France-Presse. However,…

Jun 1, 2010 1:48 PM CDT

7 Homeowners Awarded $2.6M in Chinese Drywall Suit

In a ruling that is expected to provide guidance for determining potential damages in more than 2,000 similar federal lawsuits filed by other homeowners, a federal judge in New Orleans today awarded $2.6 million to seven homeowners who alleged that their houses were damaged by the installation of drywall manufactured…

Apr 8, 2010 6:14 PM CDT

Law International Style: Steptoe to Ramp Up in Beijing, DLA in Brazil, K&L Gates in Warsaw

Announcing a new step forward in its strategic plan for Latin America, DLA Piper says it has formed an alliance with Campos Mello Advogados in Brazil. The firm currently has 60 professionals and is expected to expand in Sao Paulo soon. “This arrangement is a great beginning for us in…

Mar 1, 2010 9:47 PM CST

Hong Kong Lawyer Known for Lavish Lifestyle and Golden Toilet Has Died

Chau Kai-bong, a lawyer and flamboyant Hong Kong socialite known for owning a golden toilet and who was often seen traveling with his wife Brenda in their pink Rolls Royce has died of cancer. He was 75. Chau, who earned his law degree at Cambridge before starting his law practice…

Feb 10, 2010 3:35 PM CST

Winston & Strawn Opens Two More China Offices

Winston & Strawn is planning to open offices in Beijing and Shanghai after getting approval for the expansion by the country’s Ministry of Justice. The law firm opened an office in Hong Kong at the end of 2008. The new offices represent “the next step in a remarkable period of…

Nov 17, 2009 7:11 PM CST