BEIJING, March 17 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Lehman, Lee & Xu warmly welcomes its new Beijing office interns Guo Haina, Xinyu Wang and Chunlei Yang from China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) and Richard Phillips and Jonathan Griffin from American University, studying for the semester at Peking University.
The firm regularly hosts internship programs ranging in length from one to six months in cooperation with renowned Chinese universities, such as Beijing Agriculture University, China University of Political Science and Law, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University, and for foreign applicants from all over the world.
Duties assigned to the interns include conducting legal research and supporting senior attorneys and foreign legal counsels on civil and commercial cases. Lehman, Lee & Xu has also designed three dedicated courses on corporate and commercial law, labor and employment, and intellectual property, through which the firm aims at providing interns with a practical learning approach to main legal issues related to doing business in China.
Mr. Edward Lehman, Managing Director at the firm, believes that "teaching others is the best way to teach ourselves. It is based upon this conviction that we commit ourselves to helping young and motivated people at our offices to find their way to the legal profession. We thank all the students for applying to have an internship experience at our firm and wish them maximum success for their future careers." When asked about the characteristics of the ideal candidates, Mr Lehman replies that "passion for law, Chinese culture, and challenges are a must, but an open mind and propensity for interpersonal relationships are fundamental qualities that we certainly take into account."
Lehman, Lee & Xu is a prominent Chinese corporate law firm and trademark and patent agency with offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, Mauritius, 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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