BEIJING –Edward Lehman, Managing Director of leading red circle law firm Lehman, Lee & Xu has been named as one of Who’s Who leading Business Lawyers.
Lehman, who founded his form seventeen years ago has been consistently ranked among the top corporate and IP lawyers in the country for the last decade. “Its an honor to be recognized in this category. As China continues to open up the legal market here gets more competitive. Its important to keep focus and remember that the client must always remain the central focus” relays Lehman, a Chicago native who first came to China in 1987.
Who’s Who Legal publishes a list annually of lawyers who are considered pre eminent experts in their field. The guide takes twelve months of intensive research with the winners being chosen through a careful vetting and peer review process. “In China the names are traditionally from foreign firms with representative offices in the PRC” states Lehman. “I’ve always been especially proud to be nominated as it shows that local firms are now matching the foreign firms in terms of expertise.” Lehman has no doubt that one day the names will be made up almost exclusively of practitioners from local Chinese firms. “Within the next decade there will be a sea change as local practitioners become more sophisticated”
The guide, seen as a crucial tool for selecting and vetting practitioners in an increasingly crowded marketplace, is endorsed both by the International Bar Association and the International Section of the American Bar Association.
