Foreign lawyers based in Shanghai are to be offered membership of a local association for the first time, as the Shanghai Lawyers Association extends a welcome to ?specially invited members? reports UK based legal magazine, The Lawyer
Like all reports on China it’s pretty short on detailed information .. but if this is all the Lawyer could glean we doubt anybody else is going to do any better
They write
?It is understood that the main benefits of being a ?specially invited member include the right to attend legal training programmes, representative meetings, seminars and ?conferences. Until now no membership group in China has opened its doors to foreign lawyers.
The proposal was init-iated in 2010 and a draft has now entered the final stage of revision and review with the organisation and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice.
On?7?November?the ?committee working on the measure met representatives from the Shanghai offices of various foreign firms.
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http://www.thelawyer.com/chinese-law-association-first-to-admit-foreigners/1010218.article
