The plurality of law practitioners in many Asian contexts leads to complex and vibrant ecologies of legal services markets, in which multiple types of legal professionals coexist and compete with one another in everyday work.

This section uses three selections from the cases of China, India, and Vietnam to illustrate the different logics of market relations among law firms and their practitioners. While Sida Liu's article examines the market competition among ordinary law practitioners, Swethaa Ballakrishnen's study focuses on lawyers in corporate law firms. John Gillespie's article, by contrast, examines cause advocacy by successful commercial lawyers. Taken together, they pre­sent three different sites in which lawyers navigate or resist the forces of the legal services market.

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