Lesli Ligorner has more than 25 years of experience serving clients on a wide range of labor and employment matters, with more than 15 of those years spent on the ground in China. She advises a broad range of financial services, telecommunications, media, technology, life sciences, and general manufacturing clients on the full suite of employment issues in China, including hiring and termination, discrimination and harassment policies, training, and investigations. Lesli is the managing partner of the firm’s Shanghai office. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey only.
Lesli leads the labor and employment practice in mainland China and handles cross-border employment matters and internal investigations across the Asia-Pacific region. She advises on global mobility and immigration, leaves of absence, wage and hour laws, intellectual property protection, and unionization and collective bargaining.
Lesli’s practice further includes compliance counseling and training covering establishment and enforcement of company policies, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and local anticorruption compliance, export controls, data protection and cybersecurity issues, and employment and anticorruption due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and related internal investigations.
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Listed, Business Law Awards APAC, Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year (2023)
Hall of Fame, Labor and Employment: Foreign Firms, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: China (2024, 2025)
Recommended, Life Sciences and Healthcare: Foreign Firms, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: China (2024, 2025)
Recommended, Regulatory/Compliance: Foreign Firms, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific: China (2023–2025)
Leading Individual, Hall of Fame, Band 1, China: Labor and Employment, Foreign Firms, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2011–2022)
Recommended, Regulatory/Compliance: Foreign Firms, China, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2021)
Ranked, Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption (International Firms), Chambers Greater China Region (2023, 2024)
Ranked, Employment: PRC Law (International Firms), Chambers Greater China Region (2023, 2024)
Ranked, Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption (International Firms), China, Chambers Global (2017–2024)
Band 1, Employment: PRC Law (International Firms), China, Chambers Asia-Pacific (2019–2021)
Ranked, Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption (International Firms), China, Chambers Asia-Pacific (2018–2022)
Listed, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Top 100 Women in Litigation (2021, 2022, 2024)
Listed, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Litigation Star, Dispute Resolution and White Collar Crime, China (2020–2024)
Listed, Lexology Index, Thought Leader, Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR (2024)
Listed, Acritas, Star Lawyer (2018–2021)
Listed, China Business Law Journal, The A-List (2017–2022)
Member, Law360, Practice Group of the Year, Employment (2017, 2019)
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