China

How can you, as an importer of products, avoid getting hit with a massive antidumping or countervailing duty fee?

When should you walk away from a business proposal with a prospective partner in China?

When surrogacy laws lead to unintended consequences, we need to rethink those laws and find a better way to protect all parties.

Be careful out there.

Attorney Dan Harris says there's only one way to deal with labor disputes in China.

Lawyers in China get good news about salary.

Clients need to get clear on these nine issues when negotiating a China licensing deal.

With regard to technology licensing deals, Chinese companies usually make offers that will typically be horrible for an American tech company. What are they?

If any of your clients have Hong Kong/China problems, you must take steps to resolve them -- quickly.

Chinese companies sued in U.S. courts are often relatively easy marks because they typically have no clue how to handle a United States litigation matter.

When it comes to foreign currency outflow, China's laws on the books have not changed, but the reality on the ground has.

Not using product development agreements in China is a big mistake, and your clients could wind up with a disaster on their hands.

If you check out clean for this list, congratulations. But if you do not, start making changes now.

With equity so central to China disputes, potential litigants should stop reviewing their cases strictly on the law and instead start looking at them from an equitable perspective as well.

Whatever the reasons, now that both Chinese and Western companies have gotten a taste for suing each other, there may be no end to this trend.

* Now that Rudy Giuliani’s in the news again thanks to his departure from his namesake firm, he’s letting his opinions be known on all sorts of things relevant to lawyers and law students. In fact, he thinks law school should be four years long. Go back into the woodwork, Rudy. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA]

* After a decade on SCOTUS, Justice Samuel Alito hasn’t strayed from his conservative roots like some of his colleagues. He “has been every bit as conservative as conservatives could have dreamed — and as liberals would have feared.” [ABA Journal]

* Prior to Martin Shkreli’s arrest, prosecutors obtained a secret order nullifying attorney-client privilege in communications between the pharma bro and his Biglaw attorney. Per records, this case has been ongoing since before he outed himself as a d-bag. [Reuters]

* “Whether I want to marry or not, it should be my right to decide.” China’s first-ever lawsuit challenging its ban on same-sex marriage is expected to be heard in court today. In a country as conservative as China, this could be revolutionary. [New York Times]

* Shake those pom-poms, because the New York Jets have reached a settlement with the team’s cheerleaders in a lawsuit filed over alleged wage theft. The J-E-T-S will pay out $324,000, making it the fourth NFL team to settle such a suit. [New York Daily News]

Registering your IP with China Customs has always made economic sense, but considering that it's free right now, you should do it ASAP.

* Has the dearth of law school applicants finally pinched Harvard Law? [Bloomberg Business]

* Meanwhile, New York Law School is doing just fine… thanks to its savvy real estate moves. [Crain’s New York Business]

* Amal Clooney sighting in D.C. [Washington Post]

* For those keeping score, only Scalia, Thomas, and Alito skipped the State of the Union last night, which was not really surprising. [CBS News]

* Former Cravath attorney Robert Miranne talks about the movie “Joy,” chronicling the life and times of his mother, Joy Mangano. [The Am Law Daily]

* In July, China arrested Wang Yu, a top women’s rights lawyer for creating a disturbance. They got around to notifying her mother of this… on Monday. In fairness, they’ve really been swamped over there with the sabotaging the global economy thing. [Reuters]

* FLSA class actions expected to hit record high this year. “I keep waiting — because I’ve been studying it for 15 years — for the number of wage-and-hour lawsuits to crest or go down” said Seyfarth’s Gerald Maatman Jr. And I keep waiting for companies to dutifully pay employees the money they actually owe them, yet here we are. [Law 360]

What happens when you want to take down an audio recording from the Chinese Internet that infringes on a copyright?

* Guess what? Science says political incorrectness is an insincere sham. Sounds about right to me. [The Denver Post]

* How are Law and Order: SVU and law school exams the same? The both desperately try to wedge current events into their same old, boring fact patterns. In related news, expect both to soon feature the issue of spousal privilege when the wife of a celebrity accused of rape is forced to give testimony against him. [The Guardian]

* Can the Netflix show Making a Murderer actually lead to a pardon? Probably not, but it’ll make you feel better about the binge watching you did over the holidays. [Time]

* This is why China’s new counterterrorism law is terrifying for tech companies doing business there. [Slate]

* The ABA has released the full, school-by-school bar passage rates for 2014. Which school was the best? More interestingly, which was the worst? [Bar Exam Stats]

* Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman of the New York State Court of Appeals is retiring. He took a larger view of the law, where getting justice was not about money. [Guile Is Good]