Long An law firm news

Over 8,000 IP lawyers from all over the world attended the132nd annual conference hosted by the International Trademark Association (INTA) in Boston recently. For a regular attendee like King & Wood patent partner Shi Yusheng, what becomes immediately noticeable is the growing number of legal representatives from Chinese firms.

The global financial crisis has not diminished law firms’ passion for the country’s most cosmopolitan and fast-paced city. Rather, it provides a timely opportunity for ambitious firms in this up-and-coming financial centre to prepare for a new wave of competition. ALB China investigates

Three firms that merged recently provide some perspective on how to make a law firm merger work in the long term

The Supreme People’s Court recently selected and published ‘100 typical IPR cases’. Local lawyers expect these cases to provide precedent value to future trials and IP practices.

Arnold Bloch Leibler (ABL) has added an office in Sydney to the firm's traditional Melbourne base, with the new office located in the city's Chifley Tower

Arnold Bloch Leibler (ABL) has added an office in Sydney to the firm's traditional Melbourne base, with the new office located in the city's Chifley Tower.

Although informal in nature and lacking a constitution, an association of in-house lawyers is in the throes of formation in Japan

It is no exaggeration to describe e-marketing as a revolution for the marketing industry

China issued a revised version of its Catalogue Guiding Foreign Investment in Industry on 30 November 2004, which will take effect on 1 January 2005 (the 2004 Catalogue).

"We've got a good book of business on," is what Gilbert + Tobin M&A partner Garry Besson said last year shortly after Thomson Financial released its half-yearly results on M&A activity across Australia and New Zealand.

If the past year is anything to go by, 2004 is set to be another bumper year for Australian M&A activity.

This month' managing director of Investec Asset Management Asia' Stewart Aldcroft' answers investment-related questions posed by the legal community

Four North American firms have teamed up to form a unique alliance in Mainland China, which will result in the quartet pooling their joint resources and increasing their coverage of the region.

The January 12 ceremonial opening of the legal year in Hong Kong saw the ushering in of the judiciary to the Great Hall at the Conference and Exhibition Centre with a 40-piece band and a show of pomp and pageantry - harking back to the city's colonial days under British rule.