Law.com - Ropes & Gray Jumps Into the China Fray

Law.com - Ropes & Gray Jumps Into the China Fray
Although Ropes & Gray's Hong Kong office is stated to have been in the planning stage for a few years, the triggering event seems to have been the willingness of Scott Jalowayski to jump from Morrison and Foerster with two senior associates. According to the article, Jalowayski was only made a partner at MoFo in 2007. As I have noted in prior posts, one of the features of the new transnational law firm is mobility. This scenario would appear to put a new emphasis on mobility. It seems to ignore the obvious danger of building what will certainly be a very expensive office to open and maintain on the willingness of highly mobile staff not to jump again.