Jian Joe Zhou, S.J.D., LLM, MLI, LLB, Attorney at Law, New York Office

Licensed in the New York State and U.S. Federal District Court of New York Southern District
Qualified in P.R. China

Email: jzhou@hooyou.com  Tel: (212) 643-8203

Practice Areas: PERM, NIW, EB-1, Business Visas, China Law, International Transactions, and Dispute Settlement

Attorney Jian Joe Zhou is co-managing attorney at Zhang & Associates, and the leader of firm’s new PERM legal team. Mr. Zhou is a New York State and U.S. Federal District Court (New York Southern District) licensed attorney, and he also passed the Chinese Bar in 1995. He received his Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Master of Laws (LLM) degree and Master of Legal Institutions (MLI) degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In addition, he earned a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree and received two years of graduate education, both majoring International Economic Law, from the East China University of Politics & Law at Shanghai, China.

Attorney Zhou focuses on practice of international transaction, DOL PERM petition, employment-based immigration, and complicated non-immigrant and immigrant visa applications. As a business law specialist, Attorney Zhou leads the firm's International and China Practice. With extensive legal experience and knowledge in international business and trade laws from both China and the Untied States, Joe offers clients comprehensive legal solutions in cross border transactions, especially in transactions related to China and other Asian countries. He has assisted clients in corporate reconstruction, merger and acquisition, licensing and franchising, administrative registrations, trademark and copyright application, intellectual property licensing, business strategies, and commercial arbitration and litigation.

Since joining the firm in 2000, Mr. Zhou has gained expertise in employment-based immigration issues at both the individual and corporate level. He has handled more than one thousand of cases in Labor Certification (RIR and PERM), NIW, EB-1, H-1B and L Non-immigrant worker visas, and adjustment of status issues. Joe also offers legal solutions to clients with immigration legal problems related to international business expansion, investment, job transfers, layoffs, and USCIS' Request for Additional Evidence (RFE).

With successful experience of several hundreds of Labor Certification (RIR) cases and in depth knowledge of the new PERM system, Joe has been instrumental to the approval of many PERM cases. He was among the first immigration attorneys nationwide who successfully managed to get PERM petitions certified. As leader of the firm's PERM legal team, he has developed a set of PERM petition protocols that help employer petitioners navigate through the complex PERM compliance process.

Prior to his legal profession, Joe was a professional sports sailor and has received medals from China national sailing championship. He also has several best player awards from various soccer leagues.

AFFILIATIONS :

Director, US-China Lawyers Society
Member, New York State Bar Association, International Practice
Member, American Immigration Lawyers Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Judicial Intervention on International Arbitration: A Comparative Study on the Application Scope of the New York Convention in the United States and China ，The Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, Volume 15, Number 2, 403-456 (June 2006)

Arbitration Agreements in China: Battles on Designation of Arbitral Institution and Ad Hoc Arbitration, Journal of International Arbitration, 23(2) 145-170, 2006 (Kluwer International, Hague, the Netherlands)

National Treatment in Foreign Investment Law: A Comparative Study From A Chinese Perspective, 10 Touro International Law Review 39-153 (Spring 2000) (available in Westlaw and LexisNexis)

China's Accession to the World Trade Organization, Occasional Papers Series Of The East Asian Legal Studies Center 98-4(University of Wisconsin, 1998)