BigLaw Firm Cooking Up Some Asian Fusion With Practice Leader Takeaway

BigLaw Firm Cooking Up Some Asian Fusion With Practice Leader Takeaway
The mobility of lawyers in a globalized practice is some times amazing to those of us who are old enough to remember the partnership for life days. This article refers to an attorney who came to Hong Kong in 1994 (for an unnamed firm), then joining Sidley in 1997, then joining Paul Hastings in 2003, and now O'Melveney & Myers in 2008. The interesting thing is that, even though this looks about the same as the way sports teams trade players, this is no longer exceptional in the globalizing practice of law.