On April 21, 2026, Asian Legal Business (ALB), a leading legal publication under Thomson Reuters, recognized Han Kun as a 2026 ALB China Employer of Choice—the 12th time for the firm to receive the honor. Han Kun has won high recognition from employees and wide public praise for their outstanding talent pool, scientific talent training programs, and distinctive talent development principles.
Han Kun Law Offices has unique appeal as an employer based on long-term and stable talent development. Lawyer Zaiguang Lu, partner and head of Han Kun's talent committee, told ALB that building an employer brand does not stem from a single initiative, but is based on the concept of long-term and stable talent development, adhering to the principles of "being people-oriented, value fitting, cultural identity, and long-term focus and continuous cultivation of lawyers' career development". Han Kun continues to promote three major directions around talent development and organization building. "First, create and continuously optimize a challenging and growth-oriented business platform, so that lawyers can continue to exercise and improve their professional capabilities and expand their industry horizons in complex and diverse projects; second, build a clear and transparent career development path, so that lawyers can form stable expectations for development goals and long-term directions at different stages; third, create an open and collaborative working atmosphere, encourage cross-team cooperation and experience sharing, and enhance the team's sense of belonging and long-term development momentum. These measures support each other, forming Han Kun's unique talent attraction and allowing it to always maintain an advantage in the competition for talent.
Han Kun provides employees with market-competitive salaries and incentives at different stages of growth through a mechanism linked to business performance, with the return on investment being relatively clear. Han Kun focuses on creating an open and inclusive communication atmosphere, encouraging cross-team experience exchange and internal sharing. Han Kun is committed to enabling team members to gain understanding and support during high-intensity professional work, thereby further enhancing the cohesion and long-term attractiveness of the organization. Han Kun regards systematic talent training as an important source of core competitiveness and continues to promote the construction of a forward-looking talent development mechanism. Han Kun has formulated differentiated training priorities for lawyers at different stages. For young lawyers, Han Kun emphasizes the combination of systematic training and project practice to help them quickly consolidate their professional foundation to make professional and prudent legal judgments and also to deeply understand business logic and provide practical solutions. For senior lawyers, we pay more attention to continuous improvement of professional depth, industry insights and business capabilities, implementing the concept of "Legal Mind, Business Sense". We promote business development that is oriented toward specialization and sustainability through cross-team collaboration and resource sharing.
"Han Kun wants to create a sustainable development platform that is both professional and attractive long term." In the future, Han Kun will continue to improve in four aspects: first, continue to optimize the talent development system and explore more diversified growth paths; second, strengthen cross-regional and cross-business collaboration capabilities to provide lawyers with broader development space; third, strengthen the application of artificial intelligence in legal services, improve the efficiency of information retrieval, legal research and project management, empower lawyers in their daily work, and accelerate for young lawyers skill acquisition and experience accumulation, promote their transformation from executive to professional and then to comprehensive talents, and improve the overall operational efficiency and service capabilities; fourth, continuously optimize the organizational mechanism and cultural construction to enhance the resilience of the firm's long-term development.
The 2026 Employer of Choice survey was launched in December 2024, and the research team ranked the law firms based upon factors including job satisfaction, salary levels, salary structures and overall wage transparency, training opportunities and career development opportunities, opportunities to receive professional guidance, transparency on the path to partnership, teamwork, knowledge management and IT support, work-life balance, career development prospects, and the willingness to recommend the firm as an employer of choice. This year's list recognized 20 of the most competitive law firms in the legal talent market in total.
