Jun 27, 2023
Migrants are returning to Australia
post-pandemic, and with more and more non-English speakers in our
community, some firms may see a need to build international desks
that can better service those persons to ensure equal access to
justice. Both from the perspectives of legal service and business
needs, building such a desk makes a lot of sense.
On this episode of The Boutique Lawyer Show, host Jerome Doraisamy
speaks with Robinson Gill principal Lu Cheng about her experience
in running her firm’s China desk, how and why the opportunity to
build such a capability within her suburban firm came about, what
is so important about building such desks, and the ever-present
need to ensure equal access to justice to those in the
community.
Ms Cheng also responds to questions about whether or not offering
such services for non-English speakers in the community will become
a duty for law firms of all stripes, the challenges in establishing
an international desk within a law firm, how to manage client
relationships for those non-English speakers, ensuring that
business owners and leaders see the value in establishing an
international desk, and the trends dictating the need for such
capabilities.
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