Partner
Chang Soo JIN
Labor & Employment
Chang Soo Jin is a partner in the Labor & Employment Group. Mr. Jin served as a judge for about 21years in various courts, including 2years as a Research Officer of the Constitutional Court. His practice ranges from civil and criminal law to the Constitution.Shortly before joining Lee & Ko, Mr. Jin handled mainly Labor & Employment, Administrative, Tax cases for 5years in the Seoul Administrative Court and Seoul Southern District Court. Mr. Jin took the lead in a number of rulings on the Labor & Employment, Administrative Litigations that made enormous effect on the legal practices such as pilot's ordinary wage case, dismissal of a low performer case, limit on giant retailer's operating hours case, real-estate holding tax case etc.
主要事例
- Spearheaded major workforce restructuring projects for clients (in both public/private sectors) to convert non-regular workers to regular-employees, and handled litigations arising out of the conversi
- Successfully defended clients against allegations of unfair labor practice and potential criminal sanctions
- Successfully represented clients in management-union disputes and collective bargagining negotiations involving multiple unions
- Consulted clients major distributors and large-scale manufacturers on labor-management relations and non-regular workers management
- Advised high profile financial holdings companies and prominent construction entities on matter related to the management of non-regular workers
- Represented public institutions and renowned financial institutions against claims for employee-status by subcontracted workers
- Represented major clients in the financial, public, manufacturing, and airline industries in socially impactful cases involving ordinary-wage
- Represented major clients in wholesale on work hour claims
- Successfully represented multiple clients in litigations involving wrongful terminations, unlawful layoffs, reassignment orders of underperforming employees, claims of minimum wage
- Successfully represented large corporate employers against claims of unfair labor practice by labor unions
- Provided legal advisory services for clients to engage labor unions and lawfully respond to union activities
- Handled a wide variety of other legal matters including, litigations involving the constitutional rights of local authorities/governments, property taxes issues (at the Constitutional Court), double t
学歴
| 2008 | U of Illinois School of Law - V.S. Tax Law |
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| 2005 | Korea University School of Law - Law of Financial Transactions |
| 1992 | Judicial Research & Training Institute, Supreme Court of Korea |
| 1990 | College of Law, Seoul National University - LL.B. |
経歴
| 2016-Present | Lee & Ko |
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| 2018-Present | Auditor to Society of Labor Law Theory and Professional |
| 2018-2019 | Advisory Counsel to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety |
| 2017 | Adjunct Professor, Ewha Woman's University Law School |
| 2014-2016 | Presiding Judge, Seoul Southern District Court |
| 2011-2014 | Presiding Judge, Seoul Administrative Court |
| 2009-2011 | Presiding Judge, Incheon District Court |
| 2007-2009 | Presiding Judge, Daejeon District Court |
| 2004-2006 | Research Officer(dispatched), Constitutional Court |
| 2003-2007 | Judge, Seoul High Court |
| 2002-2003 | Judge, Seoul District Court |
| 1999-2002 | Judge, Kwangju District Court |
| 1997-1999 | Judge, Seoul District Court |
| 1995-1997 | Judge, Incheon District Court |
言語
| Korean and English |
受賞実績
| 2022 | Who's Who Legal (Labour& Employment) |
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| 2022 | Recognized as a 'Leading Lawyers' by AsiaLaw (Labour and Employment) |
| 2021 | Recognized as a 'Leading Lawyer' by Chambers Asia (Employment) |
| 2021 | Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Leading Individuals (Labour and Employment) |
| 2019 | Legal 500 Asia-Pacific Leading Individuals (Labour and Employment) |
| 2018 | Who's Who Legal (Labour& Employment) |
| 2018 | Selected as 'Best Labor Attorney' by Hankyung Business Weekly |
| 2018 | Chambers Asia-Pacific Ranked Lawyer (Employment) |
著書/活動
- Analysis on Superime Court's Decisions 2019, Law Times (2020)
- Analysis on Constitutional Court's Decision to Include Commute-Injuries as Part of 'Work-Related Injuries' under the Industrial Accident Compensation Act, Labor Law Monthly (2019)
- Analysis on Superime Court's Decisions 2018, Law Times (2019)
- Analysis on Employee Status of TV Actors under Labor Union Act, Law Times (2018)
- Analysis on Constitutional Court's Decision to Strike Down the Prohibition against Employers from Providing Financial Support for Unions, Labor Law Monthly, (2018)
- 'GREATER REFORMS FOR PROMOTING WORK-LIFE BALANCE CHANGES TO THE GENDER EQUAL EMPLOYMENT'(2019)
- 'Discussion on the Disposition of Corrective Orders,' Labor Law Magazine (2017)
- 'Legal Issues of Significance in Collective/Wage Agreements,' Labor Law Magazine (2017)
- 'Theories and Practice of Administrative Litigation (Administrative Litigation Related to Labor)', Seoul Administrative Court (2014)
- 'Understanding of Trials involving Refugees' (revised edition, co-author), Seoul Administrative Court (2014)
- 'Income Tax on Married Couples Assets (Commentary on Constitutional Court Precedent), Judicial Development Foundation (2010)
- 'Sales of Drinking Water and Tap Water (Commentary on Constitutional Court Precedent),' Judicial Development Foundation (2010)
- 'Confirmation of the Unconstitutionality of the Special Law on the Remedy for University Faculty Members whose Professorship is Lost by the Expiration of Appointment Term (Commentary on Constitutional
- 'On the Constitutionality of 4-Time Continuous Terms of Heads of Local Governments (Commentary on Constitutional Court Precedent), Constitutional Court (2006)
- 'On the Constitutionality of School Real Estate Premium Fees (Commentary on Constitutional Court Precedent), Constitutional Court (2006)
- Adjunct Professor, Ewha Woman's University School of Law (2017)
- Practical Labor Law, Supreme Court Labor Law Community (2015)
- Labor Law In Practice, Korean Public Workers' Society (2015)
- Application and Operation of the Proportional Principle in Practice, Supreme Court Constitution Research Council (2014)
- Practical Issues on Administrative Procedures, Korean Bar Association (2014)
- The 15th Anniversary Conference of the Seoul Administrative Court, Administrative Litigation for Foreigners, Seoul Administrative Court (2013)
- Issues and Trends in Administrative Cases, National Human Rights Commission (2013)
- Procedures and Issues of Labor-related Administrative Litigation, Judicial Research and Training Institute (2013)
- The Trial Court of the Seoul Administrative Court, Seoul High Court (2012)
- Proportional Principle in Constitutional Court Cases (Public Law Study No. 37, No. 4), Korean Public Law Institute (2009)
