For the global corporate legal market chinas period of exponential growth continues to represent massive opportunity in 2017 china benefited from just over 168000m inward direct foreign investment and in turn made 102000m outward direct foreign investment source oecd impact on legal spend average legal spend in china 32 lower. The legal market in the china is evolving rapidly said li steven wang head of the corporate segment for asia emerging markets at thomson reuters adding that the adoption of the us european model of law firms as private and commercial businesses is a relatively recent development in china. Legal market overview in china in december 2019 reports started emerging of a novel disease outbreak in the chinese city of wuhan a month later the government notified the world health organisation and soon after the entire country faced quarantines and restrictions on domestic travel. Purchase the legal services in china country report as part of our legal services market research for november 2018 euromonitor international is the leading provider of strategic market research reports. Professionals and help expand employment opportunities in chinas legal services market uscbc recommends allowing lawyers with chinese licenses the ability to retain their licenses when joining foreign firms thus contributing to the development of chinas legal industry by