On January 15, 2015, during the Pro Bono Legal Service Work Experience Exchange of Beijing Lawyers Activity organized by Beijing Judicial Bureau and Beijing Lawyer Association, Senior Partner Chen, Xu was awarded as the Excellent Pro Bono Legal Service Lawyer in Beijing, and he gave a speech about Strive to do a Good Job in People’s Mediation by Practicing the Principle of Empathy, Reasoning and Abiding by the Law and promoting mediation arrangements.

On January 15, 2015, the Beijing Judicial Bureau and the Beijing Lawyer Association held an event for Beijing lawyers to exchange experiences regarding public legal service. Xu Chen, senior partner of Longan, was given the honor of being named as an outstanding pro bono lawyer of Beijing and gave the keynote address with a theme of: “Practice reasonableness and legal compliance. Try to improve mediation for people.”

Recently, the first batch of Guangdong Lawyers Expert Database selected by Guangdong Lawyers Association was announced. Jia, Hongwei, Lai, Xiangdong and Jiang, Zhiyun of Shenzhen Offices were selected into the International Commercial Legal Affairs Lawyers Expert Database and Intellectual Property Rights Lawyers Expert Database respectively. It is understood that the Guangdong Lawyer Expert Database the declaration and selection of the first batch the lasted more than a year, set up links including: voluntary reporting, Municipal lawyers association preliminary review, Guangdong Lawyers Association working group review evaluation, public in Internet and secret ballot, etc. So that this selection has high credibility. The election of three lawyers adds impetus to the professional and intern...

Recently, the Guangdong Lawyers Association announced the preliminary list for the “Guangdong legal expert database,” and three lawyers from Longan’s Shenzhen office, Hongwei Jia (David), Xiangdong Lai (Tony) and Zhiyun Jiang, were elected into the international business legal issues expert database and the intellectual property legal issues expert database. Reportedly, declarations and selections of the preliminary list of the “Guangdong legal expert database” took more than one year. Major processes included: voluntary application, preliminary investigation by the city’s Lawyers Association, investigation and evaluation by the province’s Lawyers Association’s legal expert database review working group, Internet notice, audit and secret ballot. Owing to the list’s high prestige, the elect...

From December 27 to 28, 2014, Long An Law Firm Held 22nd Anniversary Celebration in Beijing. Approximately 200 people including the directors and partners as well as lawyers of Beijing Head office and other 15 Offices across the country attended the celebration. The celebration was presided over by the Managing Partner Liu, Xiaoming. At the meeting, the Founding Partner Xu, Jiali send New Year’s greetings to all colleagues, and made a brief review of the great progress and achievements in the past 22 years, and thank staff for the development and growth of Law Firm the hard work and outstanding contributions. On behalf of Beijing Head office, Liu, Xiaoming made the 2014 annual work report, which comprehensively summarized work and achievements in the past year. Other partners, attorney rep...

On July 29, 2014, Zhao, Hongbo, member of the Management Committee of Shenzhen Offices, accepted the invitation of Futian District People’s Court and was appointed as the member of Committee of the Presiding Judge Selection of Futian District People’s Court again in 2014 after 2013. It is understood that the reform attempt of Shenzhen Futian People’s Court aims to expand the openness and democratic participation in the selection of presiding judges, improve the credibility of the selection of presiding judges, and select high-quality legal talents with firm political stance, and has good professional quality and rich experience in handling cases to the presiding judges. The appointment reflects the high praise of government for Zhao, Hongbo.

Jiali Xu was appointed executive director of the Intellectual Property Law Protection Research Institute of Zhongguancun on August 8 by the decision of relative organizations in light of his contribution to and influence in the area of intellectual property.

On August 8, in view of Xu, Jiali’s contribution and influence in the field of intellectual property, the relevant organizations decided to hire Xu, Jiali as Executive Director of Institute of Intellectual Property Protection of Zhongguancun.

On July 31, 2014, the Award Ceremony of Arbitrator Certificate and Arbitrator Seminar of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) and China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC) was successfully held in Hong Kong. Nearly 70 arbitrators from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, Australia, France, Spain, Turkey and other countries participated in the event. As the newly appointed arbitrator of the CIETAC, Lai, Xiangdong of the Shenzhen Offices participated in the seminar together with other arbitrators from southern China. The two topics of the arbitrators’ seminar covered the latest business development of the Hong Kong Arbitration Centre (HKAC). The first topic is the fee standard of HKAC. The second topic i...

The CPC Party Committee of Lawyers Association, Chaoyang District organized a selecting activity to select a “Merit” party branch, the advanced party branch, outstanding communist party member, outstanding party workers and friends of the party construction in May 2014. Our firm was rated as “2014 Advanced Party Branch”, and Xiaoming Liu, secretary of our party branch was awarded “2014 Excellent CPC Party Member”.