We are now beginning a new year – 2019.
As we welcome a new year full of promise, I offer my best wishes to all members of the professional legal community and their families for a healthy and happy year ahead. I sincerely hope that we, as a community of legal professionals are prepared to move forward confidently in the year ahead, putting the troubles experienced in certain areas of the legal community during the past year behind us and restoring the public’s trust. I am happy to note that Lee & Ko has in the past year completed much groundwork in preparation for making significant future advances. Among other things, the firm’s successful conversion into a limited liability corporation (LLC), along with steady fine-tuning and strengthening of the firm’s specialized practice groups, during the past year have already been producing many positive results.
For the New Year 2019, we will go forward with even greater dedication to accomplishing the goals that we have already established, while consolidating the gains that we have made. We plan to further raise the level of excellence of the services that we provide to match and exceed the highest global standards. We will be seeking closer connections with our clients in order to steadily build increased trust and further improve the quality of our services. We are also moving forward with efforts to further develop new specialized organizations to enhance our ability to efficiently meet newly emerging issues and concerns faced by our clients.
Indeed, as we enter the New Year, Lee & Ko is focusing steadfastly on successfully anticipating and meeting challenges and developments in the legal market for the next 10 years and beyond. We believe that our people will certainly be our most important asset in accomplishing these goals. Therefore, to ensure continuing future success, Lee & Ko is committed to recruiting and developing the abilities of highly competent young lawyers.
In terms of work philosophy, our firm will deepen its focus on maintaining and enhancing a reputation for trustworthiness and reliability, based on a steadfast commitment to fundamental principles and justness, rather than pursuing any dramatic, attention-seeking transformations in the years ahead. We believe that the increasing trust that our clients have given us during the past 41 years has been a clear manifestation of support for this time-tested managerial philosophy.
We at Lee & Ko pledge to do our utmost to fulfill our social responsibilities as a law firm in the future, based on continuing specialization, professionalism and caring – such things constituting what we call the “Lee & Ko spirit” – so that we will continue to be fully worthy of our leading position among Korean law firms.
Best wishes to all for a happy New Year!
Lee & Ko Managing Partner
Yong Seok Ahn