A busload of lawyers wearing matching orange ties and scarves filed into Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker’s midtown office last week. The group, hailing from about two dozen mainland Chinese firms, had already visited Jones Day, Hogan Lovells and Sidley Austin as part of a tour by an upstart Chinese law school catering to practicing lawyers. Davis Polk & Wardwell was next on the agenda.

For three hours on Thursday morning, the crowd soaked up the words of Philip Quaranta, a Wilson Elser executive committee member who heads the firm’s Asia practice. Before delving into the brass tacks of partnership law, capital and compensation issues, Quaranta noted similarities between 38-year-old Wilson Elser and Chinese firms.

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