Zhang Xuebing appointed to lead Beijing Bar

Zhong Lun founding managing partner Zhang Xuebing (pictured) will be the next president of the Beijing Lawyers’ Association.
Zhang was elected in the vote among over 250 lawyers representing more than 1,200 law firms in Beijing to replace his predecessor Li Dajin, who stepped down as the president of the Beijing Bar at the end of his three-year term.
There are currently18,655 lawyers in Beijing, double the number four years ago.  Leading the country’s largest and most dynamic legal profession to a new level poses many new challenges even to a veteran managing partner like Zhang, who won ALB’s Managing Partner of the Year award at the 2008 China Law Awards. 
“How to make such a large number of lawyers feel and appreciate the function of the lawyers’ association, how to manage and educate them, and how to improve the overall image and capability of [the] Beijing legal profession, are big challenges to me and to the bar as well,” Zhang said.
He noted that one of his plans was to launch more foreign-related initiatives to broaden Beijing lawyers’ international expertise.