“In Kenya every year I have about 60 to 80 Chinese companies as my client in Kenya. So that’s the reason I can have an office in Nairobi Kenya. But for other countries nearby, for example, in Tanzania, I have four clients. And it also gives me a lot of very good legal fees and…
“For the Chinese law firms, the tax is really calculated based on their total fees without the deduction of the cost of their foreign counsel. So that the total cost that we will charge of our clients would be normally would be like 15% or 20% higher than to use the kind of alliances structure.”…
“If someone takes over the coordination in a difficult case with various jurisdictions, I support that, and I tell to my client, listen, this work is so important, has to be paid. So there must be a budget for the coordination only, especially if various jurisdictions are involved.” The Cost and Regulation Framework Peter Ruggle…
“At the centre of the network of the platform, it should be a centralised structure that can perform quality control, but this requires very skilled lawyers, of course, because they should be able to supervise the job done by the single lawyers in the various jurisdictions. This requires very good lawyers, very well-trained lawyers. And…
Opening Quote: “What kind of alternative model you choose depends on the costs. As a lawyer, we are also entrepreneurs. We have our employees, we have our cost at the end of the month. So we have to consider cost. And also the second point, we are working or living as a lawyer in a…