04.01.12 08:57 Age: 13 yrs

Lehman, Lee & Xu awarded as a Best China Patent Law Firm 2012

The Lawyers World Global Awards 2012 recognize a select number of leading professional firms, across the globe, for their individual areas of specialization, within their geographical location.

Lehman, Lee & Xu was selected as a Lawyers World Global Awards Winner 2012 - in the category of Patent law firm of the year.

According to the Lawyers World magazine, “98,850 electronic voting forms were issued.” By close of business Friday 23rd December 2011, The Lawyers World Global Awards 2012 votes received totaled 25,701, demonstrating a 26% response rate.  The poll represents who the readership believes are the leading professional firms, within the various areas of specialization, across the various geographical regions.

Managing Director of Lehman, Lee & Xu Mr. Edward Lehman commented: “While resident in China for 25 challenging years we are pleased to be recognized by our legal peers worldwide as our firm, one of only eight, that enters the 20th year of existence in mainland China. I am honored to have served as the longest managing director of any firm in China for these past 20 years, and that combined with my five years work as an associate with an international 'big law firm' in China (in Shanghai commencing 1987) and as the first foreigner to work in a Chinese-state- owned law firm (in Shanghai 1989), I have been grateful to have been a guest in China and a witness to the greatest economic transformation in the history of the world”

Lehman, Lee & Xu is a prominent Chinese corporate law firm and trademark and patent agency with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, and Mongolia. The firm has been recognized as one of the top trademark firms in China by several intellectual property magazines and is managed by Mr. Edward Lehman, a leading expert on corporate law with 20 years of practice experience in Mainland China.

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