Speaker:         Simon Mui, Founder and Director, CLECSS

Moderator:     Jian Wu, Attorney, Kobre & Kim 

The program will provide an opportunity to talk with Simon Mui, Founder and Director of CLECSS (China Legal Education & Career Seminar Series) regarding legal career development in Mainland China and Hong Kong. Topics will include how to advance your legal career, set goals, get promotions and raises, and avoid career-killing mistakes.  The program will conclude with a Q&A session followed by a networking reception with beverages and light snacks. 

Simon Mui is an attorney admitted in New York, England & Wales and Hong Kong. Simon is also a General Committee Member of Stanford Club of Hong Kong and recipient of 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award of Washington University School of Law. Simon graduated from Stanford Graduate School of Business with Master of Science in Management and Washington University in St. Louis with JD and LLM.  He previously worked as a General Manager (Legal) of a leading solar energy company listed in Hong Kong. Before that, he worked with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Baker McKenzie in the areas of capital markets, corporate finance and compliance of listed companies. 

Founded in 2007, CLECSS is currently a large and influential lawyers’ platform in China. CLECSS has a long history of providing high-quality seminars and professional events to lawyers, in-house counsels, law students and other business professionals. Its collaborating partners include major international and PRC law firms as well as well-known enterprises.  With the slogan “Think Big; Do Big,” CLECSS has also set up an “Overseas Scholarship Program” and “Outstanding Lawyer Award Scheme” to encourage young lawyers and law students to gain more international exposure and pursue excellence in their legal career.

Sponsors:

NYU Asia Law Society 

CLECSS

Asia Practice Committee, Asian American Bar Association of New York

Asian Affairs Committee, New York City Bar Association