Happy Chinese New Year! We were extremely busy the past few months, including most of our US based team working from our Hong Kong offices during November and December. As a follow up from our
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KINNEY’S 62 US ASSOCIATE PLACEMENTS IN 2011 THUS FAR IN ASIA / STATE OF MARKET
The lateral hiring market for biglaw US attorneys has slowed down substantially in the past four months. We at Kinney have been fortunate to have continued a nice run of placements, but even our pace
Read moreHiring Spree in HK / China Fund Formation
In the past month, while cap markets hiring has finally slowed, we have made 4 placements in fund formation at US and UK firms, and we expect a few more of such hires in the
Read moreExpat / COLA Allowances Continue to Rise in HK / China
Please feel free to check out this link to see some of our recent articles on expat / cola allowances in Asia. As we predicted in November, ’10, US$80,000 has become much more the standard
Read moreKorea – The Next Frontier – But When?
A good number of our placements over the last six years have been of Korean-speaking attorneys, most of whom are Korean natives who were educated in the United States after a preliminary legal education in
Read moreSTATE OF THE MARKET IN ASIA / HOW TO HANDLE THE INEVITABLE COUNTER OFFER, BOTH FROM FIRM AND CANDIDATE’S PERSPECTVIE
Please check out our daily blog, www.theasiachronicles.com, where we also have a new post today by Alexis Lamb, regarding the rising need for US litigation associates in Asia, among our numerous daily news posts on
Read moreDon’t be an “IMPULSE BUYER” When Selecting a Legal Recruiter – Ask For at Least 10 References of Past Placements in your Target Asia Markets
Despite best intentions, it has been some time since our last post here on ATL, except for ratcheting up our placement numbers. Since continuing on like that seems a bit gauche to us (and wasteful,
Read moreHousing / COLA Allowances in HK and China on the Rise Again
Robert Kinney here. There is nothing like expat package discussion to get our readership up. It seems like we have recently written on this topic, but there has since then continued to be an uptick
Read moreKinney’s 26 (so far) 2011 Asia Placements of US associates in Law Firms
Robert here. It has been a solid past few months for us in HK / China and Singapore. Here is a list of our very recent placements in 2011. We also are in the process
Read moreOnly Kinney Can Provide 100+ References Of US Associates We Placed in HK / China In Past Few Years
Robert here, writing from a lounge on a short layover at LAX. Robert and I just returned to the US this morning from another exhausting China trip (8+ meetings per day makes for early rises
Read moreINTERVIEWING FOR ASIA US ASSOCIATE POSITIONS – WHAT HIRING PARTNERS ARE LOOKING FOR IN A CANDIDATE
Interviewing for a US associate position in Asia can be quite different from interviewing for a spot down the street in New York or another major domestic market. Similar to applying at US offices, key
Read moreAs Predicted, The HK / China Mini Hiring Boom Has Begun
Robert here. As we have been predicted would happen in past posts, a sizzling biglaw US associate lateral hiring boom has arrived in Hong Kong / China for the first quarter ’11. We expect this
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