[Ed. note: This post is authored by Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney of Kinney Recruiting—sponsor of the Asia Chronicles, and an ATL advertiser. Kinney has made more placements of U.S. associates and partners in Asia than any other firm in the past two years. You can reach them by email: asia at kinneyrecruiting dot com.]

Robert here. Evan had intended to follow up on his article from last week regarding expat packages, but he’s stuck in a hotel in Hong Kong that our travel people chose, called the Garden View, which has a great location on MacDonnell Road but nothing else to recommend it. Not only is the internet down, but the toilet was not even flushed when Evan arrived. Once he’s flushed and reconnected, we’ll get the expat discussion back up on the web…

In the mean time, for this edition of the Asia Chronicles, we’d like to point any of you who do not read the Sunday New York Times to the following article, which discusses our work in Asia—”Lawyer Wanted: Abroad, That Is.” Kinney Recruiting moved heavily into working in Asia three years ago and, at least from the tenor of this article, we’re doing a good job.

I think we’re a little different from a lot of recruiting firms. Our focus is on serving the candidates, who are the readers of this column, by knowing as much as we can possibly know about the markets we cover and sharing as much as we can possibly share with the people who consider the jobs on offer. We don’t make every placement in Asia or our other major market, Texas, but we make a lot of them. If we can’t get you a job we’ll still talk to you (or at least email - volume of calls has gotten pretty high) and try to assist in any way we can.

So read the New York Times article, contact us at asia at kinneyrecruiting dot com, and look forward to a continuation of the expat packages article on Wednesday.