Edward Lehman managing director of Lehman, Lee & Xu China, has been selected for the 11th consecutive time as the leading life sciences lawyer in the 11th edition of the PLC Life Sciences Law guide 2012. The guide is the most well known and respected in the life science law community and is one of the longest existing and most used life sciences guide on the market instructing in-house counsel and private practitioners on who the top life sciences law firms and lawyers are throughout the world. Edward Lehman is the longest serving managing partner of a Chinese law firm in the People’s Republic of China, and has represented 28 of the 35 researched based pharmaceutical companies in China over the course of his work as a lawyer living in mainland China (Beijing and Shanghai) for the past 25 years he also established the RDPAC the Research Development Pharmaceutical Association of China (a PAC based in Beijing) and served for ten years as the organizations General Counsel.