Practice areas

Labour & employment

Introduction

John Dong has extensive experience in labour law, commercial-related civil litigation, corporate policy establishment, and the like.

Dong has long engaged in the practical and theoretical regimes of labour and employment law, providing legal services to many multinational corporations and large-scale state-owned corporations such as Carrefour, General Motors, General Electrics, Bank of Communications, Johnson & Johnson and so on. Services provided to those corporations include Chinese and English legal consultancy, legal document reviews, collective bargaining and litigations. Dong also has wide experience in helping companies deal with international commercial disputes involving labour or employment.

Dong has a bachelor’s degree in law of the East China University of Political Science and Law, majoring in international economic law, and has a master’s degree in law from Vanderbilt Law School in the US. He is qualified in New York State and the PRC.

Dong has published quite a few legal articles, some of which were embodied by core legal journals such as Heibei Law Science. Dong has also authored publications such as Case Analysis on Latest PRC Labour Contract Law (Chinese – English version), 2012 China Labour Law Yearbook (Chinese – English version) and HR Legal Counsel, which have been highly complimented.

Dong was selected as Asia’s Leading Lawyer or recommended lawyer of Employment from 2012 to 2020 by Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Legalband, etc.

He practises at Baohua Law Firm, which was founded by Dong Baohua, the vice president of the Social Law Studies Institute of China Law Society and vice president of the China Labour Law Research Association. Baohua Law Firm has assembled a lot of domestic first-class labour lawyers to provide all kinds of legal services in the area of labour law to clients from different countries. From 2012 to 2022, Baohua Law Firm was widely regarded as the top law firm in the field of labour and employment law in China by Chambers & Partners, and was ranked as Band 1 in the field of labour law in China by Chambers & Partners from 2015 to 2022.

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