We currently have a number of active openings for associate roles at US and UK firms in HK / China, Singapore and two new in-house openings. As always, please feel free to reach out to us at asia@kinneyrecruiting.com in order to get details of current openings in Asia, as well as to discuss the Asia markets in general and what we expect for openings later this year. Our Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney will be in Beijing the week of March 25 and Evan Jowers will be in Hong Kong the week of April 1, if you would like to meet them in person.
The US associate openings we have in law firms are in the usual areas of M&A, cap markets, FCPA / white collar litigation, finance, and project finance. The most urgent of our top tier (top 15 US or magic circle) law firm openings in Asia (among many other firm openings that we have in Asia) are as follows:
• 2nd to 5th year mandarin fluent M&A associates needed in Beijing and Hong Kong at several firms;
• Korean fluent 2nd to 4th year cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 5th year Japanese fluent M&A associates needed in Tokyo;
• 4th to 6th year mandarin fluent cap markets associate needed in Hong Kong;
• 2nd to 4th year M&A / cap markets mix associate needed in Singapore.
Also, we have the two below in-house openings:
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Comment of the Week: You’ve Been Trolled
By Elie MystalYou see, I’m the guy who thinks law schools are trolling all of you. I don’t actually think most law school administrators could possibly believe all of the things they say to their students. It’s a joke. It’s one big joke, and the only people who aren’t in on it are prospective law students.
The person who comes onto Above the Law and says, “the car is spelled LEXUS, not Lexis,” is exactly the same person who comes on and says, “I’m going to law school on the cheap because I received a LOAN through financial aid.”
We live in a world of trolls, so we might as well give a T-shirt to one of the most successful ones….
After I explained how the versatility of a J.D. degree was a hoax, Successful Troll objected:
I’ve got nothing else to add, so I’ll turn the rest of the post over to the Walrus Blogbot 3000:
BOOM goes the dynamite.
I mean, you know, come on, if you want to get a T-shirt over a colored commenter, get a better comment score or STFU.
I knew a guy like ST when I was studying law in Boston, well not in Boston, but in CAMBRIDGE.
If ST goes to a TTT law school, he should just kill himself.
Pleese sent us a email and claimant you’re t-Shirt.
Earlier: Your J.D. Didn’t Build That
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