John Dong, the partner of Shanghai Baohua Law Firm, holds both Chinese and NY (USA) bar. John has been granted the Bachelor of Law degree by the East China University of Political Science and Law, and the LLM (Master of Law) degree from the Vanderbilt Law School in the U.S.A.
Lawyer John Dong has been long engaged in the practical and theoretical regimes of labor and employment law, and has provided legal service to hundreds of multi-national and leading corporations as well as large-scale state-owned corporations. Services provided to those corporations include Chinese, English and Japanese legal consultancy, legal document reviews, collective negotiations and litigations. John Dong has wide experience in helping companies dealing with international commercial disputes involving labor and employment issue, such as commercial related civil litigation, corporate policy establishment and so on.
Lawyer John Dong has published quite a few legal articles, some of which were embodied by the core legal journals such as “Hebei Law Science”. John has also authored publications such as “Case Analysis on Latest PRC Labor Contract Law (Chinese - English version)”, “2012 China Labor Law Yearbook (Chinese - English version)” and “HR Legal Counsel (up to 4 versions during the past 8 years)” which have been highly complimented.
Lawyer John Dong has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in the Field of Employment Law in the Asia-Pacific/ China Region by Chambers & Partners for multiple times. Additionally, he has also been awarded A-list China's Elite 100 Lawyers, Ranked Lawyer in Employment Law, Top Ten Outstanding Young Lawyers, Golden List Top 100 Young Lawyers, 2024 GRCD Most Preferred Labor Compliance Lawyers and so on by several famous evaluation institutions and medias including China Business Law Journal, Benchmark Litigation, CLECSS, China Law & Practice Awards, and Asia Pacific Media Foundation.
Under the leadership of Lawyer John Dong, Baohua Law Firm has been consecutively recognized by various ranking agencies as top employment law firm in the Asia-Pacific/ China region.
Lawyer John Dong also leads the Baohua Law Firm to build up its own labor law database “HR Legal Counsel” to help its clients with plentiful general labor law questions. Comparing with other database in the market, all the labor law answers collected in the “HR Legal Counsel” has been winnowed by professional lawyers to secure its accuracy and relevance, and recently AI features have also been built into the system for
