Taipei
Ching-yu Tsai/Managing Partner
Brief
Attorney Ching-Yu Tsai holds a dual Master of Law (LL.M) degree from Harvard Law School and National Taiwan University Law School. Now, she is a managing partner of Oz & Goodwin Global Law Firm and serves as Clerical Officer and Member Presentive of the Taiwan Bar Association. She focuses her practice on labor disputes, trademarks and copyrights, corporate legal planning, as well as various litigation. She has represented numerous high-profile cases, including serving as counsel for the first labor dispute arbitration sponsored by the Ministry of Labor, taking part in civil oral arguments before the Supreme Court, and addressing wrongful conviction cases. She has close government relations, acts as an expert and lecturer for various agencies, authored books on public issues like labor rights, judicial reform, and wrongful conviction advocacy, and received the Public Interest Lawyer Award. She specializes in labor disputes, trademarks, and copyrights, corporate legal planning. She helps clients comply with labor and employment laws and solve labor disputes. She served as a legal consultant for various local and foreign firms, providing legal consultation regarding human resources management. In addition, she has represented many high-profile cases, such as the first labor dispute arbitration hosted by the Ministry of Labor, an Airline massive severance case, numerous unfair labor practice cases, and participation in civil speech debates in the Supreme Court. Also, she has been awarded as National Public Interest Lawyer for participating in large-scale transnational occupational accident litigation. Ms. Tsai is also highly specialized in workplace gender equality issues. In addition to being invited by government agencies to serve as a lecturer on topics related to gender in the workplace, she actively assists her clients in developing compliance plans for workplace gender equality laws. Furthermore, she is engaged as an expert in handling workplace harassment complaints and conducting investigations. Ms. Tsai also defended a defamation case involving accusations of sexual harassment filed by a female legislator in the Taiwan Legislative Yun and was acquitted. She also spent two years as a full-time lawyer with the Innocence Project in Taiwan, assisting in the defense of numerous wrongful cases involving death penalties, erroneous scientific evidence, and violations of due legal procedures. To this day, she continues to provide pro bono representation and has accumulated considerable experience in handling several exoneration cases. She has also been appointed as an expert committee member by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office to review cases for possible errors in convictions. She is also committed to public participation and maintains good relations with the government. She serves as an arbitrator and a mediator of labor disputes for the Taipei City Government and the Keelung City Government. She is usually invited by various local governments, labor inspection agencies, Legal Aid Foundation of Taiwan, companies, and unions to lecture on labor law topics. In addition to Ms. Tsai’s rich practical experience, she has also published many books and papers on labor law and often served as an expert at labor law amendment conferences.
Education
Harvard Law School (LL.M.)
The College of Law, National Taiwan University (LL.M.)
The College of Law, National Taiwan University (LL.B.)