When U.K. prime minister David Cameron visited China in November, he brought Nigel Knowles, cochair of DLA Piper, with him. The U.K. government has been making an unmistakable push on behalf of the British legal profession in China, organizing fairs and sending trade missions in cooperation with the British Law Society. The critical issue, of course, is market access—ending the ban on foreign law firms practicing local law in China—and so far China hasn’t budged.
What about American efforts? “The U.S. government is already working on this,” says Timothy Stratford, the former assistant U.S. trade representative for China affairs and now a partner in the Beijing office of Covington & Burling. “There’s a team of folks from the Commerce Department and the U.S. trade representative.”
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