Career Highlights

1972, passed the bar examination in the summer, between the first and second years of university, and admitted to practice in the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan); the ROC bar examination is considered as one of the most difficult bar examinations in the world with around 1% passing rate annually at that time

1973, passed the Special Examination for Tax Officers

1973, formed “Ace Tax, Patent & Law Offices” and commenced law practice while in the second year of university study

1975, received LL.B. (Bachelor of Law) degree

1976, passed the Entrance Examination of the National Chung Hsing University (now, National Taipei University) School of Law, and admitted into the Master of Law Program.

1979, admitted into the Yale Law School, LL.M. (Master of Law) program, as the first law student from ROC in around 7 years

1980, graduated first in the Yale LL.M. program and admitted into Yale J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law) program, as the first law student from ROC in around 15 years

1980, completed the first draft of the J.S.D. dissertation during the summer, within two months and 10 days, before the J.S.D. class commenced in September 1980

1981, received Yale J.S.D. degree and admitted into Yale J.D. (Juris Doctor) program, as the first “law” graduate from ROC and from all Chinese communities in the world in centuries

1981-1982, Associate at Debevois & Plimpton (perhaps the first ROC law graduate to work in the American top law firm).

1982, passed the American bar examination, and subsequently admitted to practice in several states and federal courts within the United States of America.

1982, formed “Yale & Yale”, and “Shieh & Shieh”

1983, Summer Associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (then one of the largest law firms in California, now over 1,000 attorneys)

1983, selected Editor of the Yale Law Journal through written competition (Article: “Act of State Ad Absurdum”)

1984, received Yale J.D. degree (perhaps, broke the historical record for being the first to receive all American law degrees in three years actual time and in four years academic time for J.D., LL.M, and J.S.D. degrees in centuries).

1980-1981, 1982-1984, Scholarship winner and holder of postgraduate degrees from Yale University

1984-1985, Associate at Stoel Rives, the largest law firm in Oregon (now over 390 attorneys)

1985-1987, Associate at O’Melveny & Myers (then one of the largest law firms in California, now 700 lawyers)

1987-1988, Senior Associate at Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisggard (then 200 lawyers. Now, 1,000 lawyers)

1988-1989, Senior Counsel at Graham & James.

1989, April, became Partner at Lewis, D’Amato, Brisbois & Bisggard, (perhaps, the first law graduate from ROC to become a Partner in the large American law firm in less than 5 years after commencing work or after graduation in 1984).

1990-, Guarantee Equity Partner at Fulbright & Jaworski (then 700 lawyers. Now, more than 3800 lawyers)

1994, won Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act litigation in a landmark case in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

1995, won freedom of association litigation for a “country’” to be an independent country in a landmark case in the United States District Court

1995, won Texas jury trial

1997, through the Court, convicted David S. Wesley, Eugene W. Brott & C. Bernard Kaufman, three Los Angeles judges, and their partners in crime: Major Williams, Jr., Leslie R. Lopez, Cydney Tabor Batchelor, Donald Robert Steedman, Elizabeth M. Avila, Irene Dobbins, Judy Harrison, Andrew Castellano

1998, through the Court, convicted Paul A. Turner of 2d District of CA Court of Appeal, Edward Y. Kakita, Joanne Earls Robins, James Williams Obrien, three Los Angeles judges, and their partners in crime: Linda Oliver, Gerald Varno Hollingsworth, Jr. & David Stuart Eisen of Quinn, Kully and Morrow (which merged with Arnold & Porter; now Eisen is with Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker)

1999, won ROC’s judicial independency, free from American judicial intrusion in a landmark case.

2003, won Grand Justice (same as the US Supreme Court precedent) Interpretation 569 on the inter-spousal self-prosecution, a landmark case

2007, won the ROC Supreme Court’s first landmark case in the civil aspect of the freedom of speech and press in 最高法院96台上928 第5庭

2013, September 4, won the ROC Supreme Court’s final and conclusive judgment of “not guilty” after 16 years’ defense against the political and judicial persecution and prosecution against an innocent person

2013, October 16, through the Taiwan Taipei District Court’s first counting the ballots in a century, won and elected as director, controller and representative of the bar associations with the highest ballots

2016, July 27, won the ROC Supreme Court’s judgment on freedom of association and speech, as well as litigation privileges after 12 years’ defense against the malicious political and judicial persecution and prosecution against an innocent person

2017, April 27, won two landmark criminal cases in the Court of Appeals: (1) a final and conclusive criminal judgment of “not guilty” was rendered to reverse the lower court’s guilty judgment on “Offenses of Obstructing an Officer In Discharge of Duties”, including allegation of defamation and insulting against clerk, judge and court; and (2) a judgment, which is in essence a final and conclusive “not guilty” judgment on freedom of association and speech, as well as litigation privileges against the attacks from the ROC’s most powerful, corruptive and collusive lawyers (self-admitted as “Literary Mafia”, “Corrupted Mafia”, “Corrupted Literary Mafia” in Singapore; and as 文聯團 “Wen-Lien Group/Camp—partnership in crime” in ROC) who conspired with corruptive and collusive prosecutors and judges in conducting malicious political and judicial persecution and prosecution against an innocent person for decades

Up to the present, won all American and ROC clients’ criminal cases pursuant to the goals of the criminal defendants (no one goes to jail during the retainer relationship), and won all cases on anti-dumping initiated by People’s Republic of China (PRC).