Law firm leaders in the West are grappling with the complex dynamics of managing offices in Asia, as expounded on by Jessica Seah in the Asian Legal Briefing. With almost fifty distinct countries in the region, and a multitude of varying laws and traditions, therapists is no one-size-fits-all method to manage the challenges faced by law firms based in the West. The subject was candidly discussed by a management-level partner of a large Global 200 law firm.
The partner openly admitted the firm’s struggles to establish a successful Asia strategy, conceding that it had perhaps been heading in the wrong direction for a while. The firm continues to wrestle with navigating the Asian market, putting a spotlight on the challenges that many Western-based firms may also experience in formulating their own strategies.