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ANALYSIS: The Russian bear’s bull run
By ALB
| Monday, 23 August 2010
Chinese-owned cranes dotting the horizon or chaebol-operated factories churning out consumer electronics are familiar sights to business travellers in most Asian or Middle-Eastern countries nowadays. But the same Chinese construction companies building pipelines deep in Siberia or the same Korean company making DVD players in the Altai may still surprise many. But for how long? As the Russian bear awakes, lawyers on both sides of the sovetsko-kitayskoye soglasheniye o (the border agreement demarcating China and East Asia from Russian territory) stand to benefit.
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ANALYSIS: The real North face
By ALB
| Thursday, 5 August 2010
Talks of Australian law firm mergers may be continuing to simmer,but the real action is happening in the Northern hemisphere
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ANALYSIS: ECFA good news for cross-Strait practices
By Yun Zhang
| Friday, 16 July 2010
On the first anniversary of Taiwan opening its borders to investment from the mainland, cross-Strait economic ties have been further strengthened with the signing of the Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement.
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ANALYSIS: Aussies provide alternative to LPO
By Joshua Scott
| Thursday, 20 May 2010
Indian legal process outsourcers (LPO) may have flagged their intention to enter the flourishing Australian legal services market, but they would be ill-advised to replicate their Indian model in Australia. ALB investigates.
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ANALYSIS: The North Face
By ALB
| Monday, 10 May 2010
Blake Dawson in Tokyo, Clayton Utz in Hong Kong and Minter Ellison in Beijing: there seems to be an Asia renaissance for Australian firms. ALB investigates
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Asia’s IBs go international
By Alice Yan
| Thursday, 18 February 2010
The financial crisis has created opportunity for investment banks Asia to accelerate expansion plans both within and beyond the region.
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The 'counsel' position: good for lawyer, firm or client?
By Yun Zhang
| Thursday, 11 February 2010
Are international firms increasingly using the title 'counsel' to provide an extra career path for their lawyers or an extra weapon in their business development agendas? ALB finds that the truthful answer varies from firm to firm and lawyer to lawyer...
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ANALYSIS: Creating synergy in Greater China
By Yun Zhang
| Thursday, 4 February 2010
As delegates from 16 lawyer associations who came together at the Cross Strait Four Regions Lawyers Summit in Hong Kong recently found, minds must be kept open if lawyers are to contribute optimally to the future development and prosperity of Greater China.
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Behind the Carrefour ruling
By ALB
| Friday, 22 January 2010
The Carrefour decision in Indonesia has attracted criticism from investors, the business community, lawyers and almost everyone in between.
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ANALYSIS: Charge up for new charge-out rates in 2010
By Jade Ng
| Tuesday, 15 December 2009
A recent survey by Altman Weil, a legal management consultant, found that US law firms project an average overall increase in rates of 3.2% for 2010. Given that the US was hit particularly hard by the GFC, this is somewhat surprising and prompts queries about potential increases in charge-out rates of law firms in Asia…
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ANALYSIS: Crisis billing
By Rashida Yosufzai
| Thursday, 12 November 2009
The more in-house budgets are cut, the more firms need to be innovative in the way they bill.
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ANALYSIS: Market for legal talent: recovery imminent
By Jade Ng
| Friday, 6 November 2009
Lawyers in Asia are hoping that reports of a recovering economy will breathe life into a barren legal recruitment market. ALB investigates whether firms are already on the lookout for new lawyers.
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