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The SR Group stands with the Black community, committed to the unalienable truth that Black Lives Matter. We've spent time listening, learning, and reflecting on how we can better equip our staff, leadership, clients and community to seek to understand and call out bias. It is up to us all to do more to dismantle the systemic structures which create barriers to equality for ...

Since mid-January our teams in Hong Kong have navigated various business continuation plans due to the COVID-19 outbreak, however with reported cases having dropped to relatively low numbers across the city, our staff have now fully returned to business as usual in our Central office. Carter Murray, Frazer Jones, Taylor Root and the wider SR Group are back in the office but ...

With the help of technology, we have seen the process of the job search dramatically change over the last decade. Technology has significantly reduced the time, knowledge and research needed for applying to a vacancy. In 2020, you can directly apply to a job easily by simply uploading your CV on social media or job portal websites. However, in my view, this is not always an ...

Following the recent developments with the COVID-19 outbreak both locally and globally, the Hong Kong government have implemented travel and quarantine restrictions to combat the rise in infections. Effective immediately, we will be splitting our staff so that at any given time half our team will be present in the office, and the other half working from home. This will conti...

Taylor Root is proud to be supporting International Women's Day 2020. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Whilst we all know that gender parity within the workplace has improved over the past decades, we all also know that there is still a long way to go. We interviewed Lily Guan, Country Lead Counsel & VP ...

Taylor Root is proud to be supporting International Women's Day 2020. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Whilst we all know that gender parity within the workplace has improved over the past decades, we all also know that there is still a long way to go. We interviewed our very own Heidy Zhou, Head of Chin...

The Hong Kong and mainland China legal market is rapidly changing. We are seeing even more international and Chinese law firms starting to build up and expand their local corporate businesses. At the same time however, firms are in more competition than ever with established international banks to attract overseas business from their Chinese clients whilst securing the best ...

Taylor Root is proud to be supporting International Women's Day 2020. International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. Whilst we all know that gender parity within the workplace has improved over the past decades, we all also know that there is still a long way to go. We interviewed Fannie Fan, General Counsel Greater C...

As the government announced yesterday that they will be keeping civil servants working from home for another week and all schools will stay closed until mid-March, all of us in Hong Kong are working to navigate the challenges we face with the coronavirus situation as it continues to develop. Our top priority is always the safety of our teams across Carter Murray, Frazer Jone...

Interviews can either be an opportunity to shout about what you are good at or an anxiety filled nerve wrecking experience where everything you KNOW you KNOW disappears and you are left stumbling over your words and panicking about your answers. Whilst most people will never truly be comfortable in an interview environment, there are some tactics I have learnt over my decade...