International Law

Rio Tinto Phase II: Non Sequitur About Shanghai Legal Market

By Stan

This is really appropos of nothing, but as I was reading a recent article in the WSJ blog about the case against four employees of Rio Tinto, I thought it really illustrated the difference between the Beijing and Shanghai legal markets very well.

Specifically, if the case were being handled in Beijing, I almost guarantee you that any news article would include not just the name of the attorney hired to represent each of the defendants, but also the name of the law firm (e.g. one of the big firms here like King and Wood or Jun He, or a boutique litigation outfit).

As this case in being handled in Shanghai, the article mentions the four attorneys with no mention of any firm.
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Full post as published by China Hearsay on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).