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[email protected] www.amerasialaw.com
Background: Founder Created Asian eDiscovery niche 2007
151 pure Asian cases
30+ years U.S. litigation experience
Established 2012 - Private Company
Exclusive Asian American Focus
San Clemente, California (Headquarters ) New York Washington D.C. San
Francisco Los Angeles Chicago Dallas Denver
Tokyo Beijing Xiamen Hong Kong Taipei Seoul Singapore
Lines of Service:
Amer Asia Discovery
Amer Asia Investigation
Amer Asia Alliance
Amer Asia Media
Amer Asia Translate
Client Markets Served
AMER ASIA LAW LLC
[email protected] www.amerasialaw.com
America Asia New York Tokyo Washington D.C. Beijing San Francisco Shanghai Los Angeles Xiamen Chicago Hong Kong Dallas Taipei Denver Seoul San Clemente Singapore
Global Presence
Amer Asia Law Locations
Amer Asia Hosting Center Capacity
Amer Asia Alliance Law Firm
Amer Asia Services:
Discovery Investigations Alliance Media Translate
eDiscovery Internal Legal Counsel Publications Machine
Information Governance Governmental Full Service Amer Asia TV Enhanced Machine
Compliance Zero²∞ Chambers 100 Firms Seminars Legal Human
Asia Asia Asia Asia Certified Human
America America America America Asia/America
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Amer Asia Discovery Services
In-House or Offsite, Amer Asia Discovery helps law departments of Asian corporations and U.S. law firms minimize/control company costs associated with legal disputes or government
investigations. Amer Asia personnel in Asia and the United States work as one team designing and implementing economical, confidential and defensible discovery plans.
Discovery Consulting
Discovery Risk Management Discovery Readiness
Legal Hold & Preservation
Data Mapping
Discovery Plans
Discovery Defensibility
Discovery Services
End to End Discovery Services
Local Asia & U.S. Amer Asia personnel Deep Asian & U.S. Roots
Flexible & Economic Pricing Models
Human Predictive Coding Document Review
Discovery Testimony for Asian Corporations
Document Review
Analytics
Technoloy & Workflow
Translation Productions
Consulting
Technology & Workflow
Discovery Plan Testimony
CASE STUDY
Large China SOE facing Discovery Sanctions in U.S. Court
Challenge How to defensibly satisfy U.S. court production requirements while complying with China State Secrets laws
Strategy U.S. and PRC “dual defensibility” testimony combined simultaneously with China and U.S. discovery protocols
Solutions
• Amer Asia China and Amer Asia U.S. personnel testimony
• Filtering of 1TB for potential State Secret documents behind Beijing Company firewall • Analytics based document review of simplified Chinese documents resulting in rolling productions within 1 week of
testimony
• Sanctions averted
Discovery Plan
Document Collection
Early Case Assessment / Processing
Document Hosting
Butterfly Effect
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Amer Asia Investigation Services
Amer Asia Investigation Services help legal and I.T. departments of Asian corporations protect and manage critical digital assets from internal theft,
leakage or misappropriation. U.S. law firms representing Asian corporations under government investigation rely on Amer Asia Investigation for defensible
document production services while minimizing/controlling costs for the Asian Corporation client.
Service Offerings
Development of digital asset enterprise policies and protocols
Monitoring network traffic for suspicious behavior
Identification & trapping of confidential digital asset network traffic
Investigation and prosecution of bad actors leaking, stealing or misappropriating company digital assets
Government investigation preparedness, document production and defensibility
Zero²∞
Advantages of Zero²∞
1. Prevents zero to infinity company damage from confidential digital asset loss
2. Automatic digital design recognition
3. Compatible with most networks and IT environments
4. Easy review of trapped digital design network traffic
5. Effective investigation and prosecution of bad actors
CASE STUDY
Global Taiwan company stung by employee theft of next release new product designs
Challenge How to prevent, detect and investigate suspicious employee distribution of confidential new product designs
Strategy Deploy enterprise wide software utility capable of identifying, trapping and flagging network traffic of confidential new product digital designs
Solutions • Design and development of enterprise wide confidential digital asset policy
• Deployment of Amer Asia Zero²∞ (zero 2 infinity) digital asset traffic management software
• Theft risk minimized for new product designs
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Amer Asia Alliance
Amer Asia Alliance brings together top American and Asian law firms, corporations and attorneys for mutually advantageous educational and professional relationships. Attorney stakeholders from Asia and America
integrate and implement proven legal strategies on behalf of their firms and companies.
Representative Expertise
Litigation
Anti Trust Mergers Acquisitions
Asset Freezing/Tracing
Fraud
Employment/Labor Intellectual Property
Trademark/Copyright Securities
Data Privacy/Data Protection
CASE STUDY
Large U.S. company suing foreign entity for fraud and misrepresentation
Challenge How to preserve $4,000,000 U.S. transferred by plaintiff to fraudster defendant’s bank account in Hong Kong
Strategy File for a Mareva Injunction in Hong Kong court
Solutions Plaintiff contacted Amer Asia Alliance regarding the services of an expert Hong Kong law firm
GALL law firm based in Hong Kong traced and successfully froze the HK financial assets of U.S. jurisdictional defendant Remedy preservation exceeding $4,000,000 U.S. pending final adjudication of U.S. case
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Amer Asia Media
Amer Asia Media provides a multi-media communication platform for our law firm and corporation clients on both sides of the Pacific. Introducing, integrating
and implementing mutually beneficial relationships and legal strategies between Amer Asia stakeholders is greatly enhanced by Amer Asia Media.
Media Services
• Amer Asia Magazine
• Amer Asia TV
• Amer Asia WhitePaper • Amer Asia Webinar • Amer Asia Conference
• Amer Asia Network
CASE STUDY
High quality successful domestic Chinese law firm interested in acquiring new clients from United States and Greater Asia.
Challenge How does a China law firm introduce and expand their legal service relationships in the United States
Strategy Design and implement a focused cost effective marketing campaign
Solutions Amer Asia Media campaign centered around stand out China IP legal practice area
Cull Amer Asia global market contacts to outside and inside counsel doing business in the PRC
Amer Asia Marketing series - “Acquiring and Defending Intellectual Property rights in China”
Five new client engagements for Chinese law firm
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Amer Asia Translate
Breakthrough translation technologies blend with translator craftsmanship via a secure, accessible interface. Human readability at unmatched speed translating only
relevant information, designed and built specifically for the Amer Asia lawyer.
Four Translation Methods
1) Machine Translation (Bulk)
2) Enhanced Machine Translation
3) Human Translation
4) Legal Certified Translation
E M T
Advantages of EMT
Better – Human quality machine learning from advanced analytic libraries applied by subject Smarter – Translate only relevant information, collections, documents, excerpts as needed
Faster – Translate 100s of documents overnight Cheaper – No translation of unnecessary material!
CASE STUDY
Japanese Corporation M&A transaction faces 2nd Request
Challenge: 140,000+ page DOJ production deadline in 6 weeks
Strategy: Treat documents progressively by responsiveness to save time / comply
Solution: MT, MT post editing, Accurate Translation, Certified legal Translation (493 translators on 5 continents managed by 23 project managers and 10 subcontractors)
Amer Asia Lawyer Use Scenarios
Client Engagement “Client Pitch” research
o In Country Writings
o IP Prior Art
Dispute Practice
New Complaint o Case Analysis
o IP Claims
o Pleadings
o Subpoena’s
o Letters Rogatory
Discovery o eDiscovery
o Client Docs
o Incoming Prods
o Deposition transcripts
o Request For Admissions
o Interrogatories
Trial o Court evidence
o Exhibits
Internal Investigations o Communications
o Price Lists
o Technical Docs
Corporate Practice o Due Diligence
o Contracts
o Purchase Agreements
o Prospectus
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What our Clients Say
“Despite numerous barriers and time deadlines, everything went great. This was a beautiful project”
“You performed great. The firms we used from the States couldn’t get this done. Thank you”
“Why did we select Amer Asia ? We haven’t found anyone else like you”
“Why did we partner with Amer Asia Law? That’s easy, track record in Asia; 8 years and 148 cases”
“There are providers that know Asia and providers that know the U.S.
You are the only firm we have met who truly knows both”
“You guys rock”
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