It has been a busy past several weeks for our Asia team at Kinney Recruiting. Evan Jowers was in Boston earlier this week, participating in Harvard Law School’s Market Series. This is the first year they are including Asia markets in the program and Evan was asked by Harvard to be their recruiter representative for those markets. Evan will work with Harvard’s office of career services and be available to its law students who seek advice on the Asia markets and US and UK firms in Asia, where they may 2L summer and / or start as a 1st year associate. If you are a law student from another top JD program and have questions about the Asia markets, please feel free to reach out to us as well, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Of course, we can’t place law students at firms (that is what on-campus recruiting is for), but we are happy to provide advice and begin positive long-term relationships.

In late April and earlier this month, Evan Jowers and Robert Kinney were working out of our Hong Kong offices for a couple of weeks, meeting with various law firm and attorney candidate clients. Also, in late March and early April, Evan Jowers and Yuliya Vinokurova were working out of our Hong Kong offices for a few weeks. Alexis Lamb is of course based in Hong Kong full time.

In mid April, from our Asia team, Evan Jowers, Robert Kinney, Alexis Lamb, Yuliya Vinokurova, Danielle Cyr, Peter Gutensohn, and Josh Carr were all in Austin, Texas for the annual NALP conference.

Please note that Evan Jowers will be in Beijing for most of July.

While much of our work and advice is over the phone and by email, the meetings we have in-person with hiring partners and other senior partners at our US and UK client firms in Asia are a critical part of our information based recruiting (rather than simply cold call based recruiting). We are fortunate to have been able to establish relationships over time with key players in the market (many who are not only business relations but also have become friends) who take the time to meet with us numerous times per year. We are sure that no other recruiting firm in Asia is able to get as many in-person meetings as we do with managing partners, hiring partners and other senior partners at top law firms. Evan and Robert routinely have 5+ such meetings per day set up on short notice when they are in Hong Kong and we are very grateful to our law firm clients for this.

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