http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com China law blog covering Chinese law, business, and non-profits by Thomas Chow Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:39:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Checked my mail the other day only to find a copy of Paul Midler's book Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game. In it, Paul defines and talks about the problem of quality fade, which I am sure I must've talked about ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/06/got-paul-midlers-book-in-the-mail/ Stan Abrams recently did a great post at China Hearsay about trademark registration, which piggybacks on Dan's post at CLB. So why am I so enamored with this post? Because Stan is saying something that so many attorneys wish we could say to our clients. Not because ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/06/straight-talk-on-trademarks-love-it/ I just couldn't resist doing posting at least one baby picture of Baby China Esquire.  I know, its not related to Chinese law, business, non-profits, or society other than the fact that the little baby has Chinese parents...  but I hope that you will pardon my excitement! I hope to get ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/06/baby-picture-i-just-couldnt-resist/ Just an FYI, I've been very busy and haven't been able to post.  Mrs. China Esquire and I had the privilege (and the responsibility) of bringing Baby China Esquire into the world this past week.  As a result, I haven't been getting much sleep on top of an already rigorous ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/06/busy-welcoming-new-life/ The New York Lawyer had an article yesterday entitled "Chinese Lawyers Could Be Disbarred for Taking Human Rights Cases".  It should come as no surprise to most readers that stuff like this happens in China.  I wasn't all that surprised.  The only interesting twist?  Its the judiciary in China that ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/05/thomas-chow-the-reward-for-doing-human-rights-work-get-disbarred/ And so this brings me to part 2 of my NERA notes—the part presented by Fei Deng, who talked about the role of nationalism in this deal.  Unfortunately, she decided to start with imperialistic times and talked about things like the Summer Palace, and Chinese humiliation.  Not any of my ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/05/nera-seminar-part-2-nationalism%e2%80%99s-intersection-with-antitrust/ Got this little post card in the mail the other day.  My alma mater, UC Hastings College of the Law, recently hired a "China expert".  (wait, I thought that was me?!)  Professor Keith Hand is going to do an MCLE presentation entitled "China's Legal System at a Turning Point."  I ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/05/china-legal-system-lecture-by-hastings-professor-618/ I figured I would get around to this eventually.  But it took a while to finally find some time to post my notes from the NERA Antitrust and Litigation in China seminar.  There were 3 speakers, so I will post multiple blogposts—because they each had a different focus. Greg Leonard presented ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/05/nera-seminar-mofcom-and-antitrust-in-china/ Here's something truly new with firms...  an international firm is building up its LITIGATION practice in China.  (Okay, Hong Kong, which is arguably part of and not part of China)  But this news story really caught my eye since I've been seeing the trend being more IP or corporate as ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/05/skaddens-coming-to-hk-with-a-litigation-practice/ Today is the kickoff of TechSoup Global's Partner Summit 2009.  And in case you were wondering, yes, we tried to briefly cover the NGO/GONGO sector in China.  John Fung, from HKCSS (our partner in Hong Kong and Macau), spoke this morning about how IT can strongly affect a smaller NGO ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/the-power-of-one-computer-for-a-chinese-ngo/ There was a time when I had a slowdown of these sort of postings about a new law firm opening shop in Beijing and/or Shanghai.  Last time it was Loeb & Loeb, which I noted was interesting from a smaller U.S. firm.  Well, now we have a U.S. regional firm ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/even-southern-firms-are-jumping-into-china/ TechSoup Global ("TSG"), where I work, is actually looking to add a Staff Attorney (Volunteer/Fellow) later this year.  Above the Law and other news outlets have been covering the news (e.g., here, here, and here) about large law firms like Skadden, Morgan Lewis, Latham & Watkins, Weil Gotshal, Orrick, White ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/public-interest-firm-looking-for-deferred-first-year-associates/ Seems like there is still a silver lining even for firms being rocked by the economic downturn.  Latham & Watkins, still most recently famous for its gigantic layoff of attorneys and staff (and deferring first year associates), has poached partners from the Hong Kong office of Allen & Overy.  It ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/latham-still-beefing-up-hong-kong-office-despite-downturn/ A friend forwarded an email to me about an interesting seminar that will cover "Antitrust and Intellectual Property Economics and Litigation in China".  Yes, sounds like a mouthful, and this could easily be a semeter-long course in law school.  But in that regard, it should prove to be really interesting.  ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/seminar-antitrust-ip-economics-and-litigation-in-china-423/ Well, at least the economy hasn't completely stopped U.S. based law firms from entering into the promised land of China.  The National Law Journal published an article today entitled "Firm Delivers Chinese Practice".  (free subscription required)  Seems like Loeb & Loeb has decided to join the party, opening a Beijing ... http://www.chinalawandbusiness.com/2009/04/smaller-bigfirm-opening-first-overseas-office-in-china/