Stephen Le

Founded in 2011, LE & TRAN Trial Lawyers was built upon integrity, diligence, and intellectual rigour. After nearly a decade of upholding our core values, our team of formidable attorneys has worked hard and smart to establish our place in the legal industry, national and international. A boutique litigation firm in Vietnam, LE & TRAN has been acclaimed for our exceptional services by over 50 multinational corporations and several renowned legal rankings.

Integrity is the foundational basis of LeTran’s professional conduct as well as the practice of our lawyers. It dictates our motivations, shapes our actions, and constitutes our reputation. Our roots in an honourable character allow us to stay grounded in legitimacy, professionalism, and effectiveness.

Business ethics guides legal solutions

We never resort to trickery when helping clients navigate legal challenges. Each of our legal advice and solution finds its basis in the code of ethics we uphold as legal practitioners and as businesspeople. With an emphasis on moral discipline, impartiality, and accountability, we trust that our ethical code will bring about the most stable and sustainable solutions to our clients.

Anti-bribery

Clients come to us because they find our culture of integrity compatible and our legal expertise reliable. Our anti-bribery policy lies at the heart of all our operations and activities. By opting to commit to a corruption-free code, we are able to not only protect our employees and our firm from penalties and reputational damages but also inspire confidence in legitimacy and empowering change. Accompanying our zero tolerance for bribery, our competence ensures that LeTran attorneys possess the right skills and mindset to fully comply with our clients’ corporate culture and the law whilst maximising our chance of winning.

Walk the talk 

We are equally committed to our code of ethics and our clients. Rather than empty promises, we exercise transparency all in our correspondence and exchanges to our prospective as well as current clients. In other words, we do not advise or bind our clients to unrealistic solutions. On the contrary, LeTran attorneys are trained to provide in-depth, proper, lawful and confident analyses, to enable our clients to make informed decisions that coincide to their corporate culture and/or individual values.

Meeting client’s expectation

Clients entrust us with their legal matters because we offer reliable, valuable, and effective legal opinions and analyses. As seasoned attorneys, we make sure to listen to and prioritise our client’s concerns. Our flexibility and sensibility allow us to put ourselves in their shoes, to understand their needs and desires, to deliver suitable and highly efficient legal solutions. Head and shoulders above the rest, Le&Tran attorneys go the extra mile every time to exceed expectations: beyond achieving the client’s goals, we take time to tackle the matter from multiple angles, to suggest the most optimised resolutions, ones that are not necessarily obvious at first glance. Dedicated and trustworthy, our legal services guarantee compliance, honesty, and a high degree of success.

Courage, Creativity, Discipline, Perseverance

Success requires courage, creativity, good discipline, and high perseverance. As one of the most established boutique law firms in Vietnam, Le&Tran embraces innovation. Our attorneys are encouraged to have the courage to think differently, to pursue boldness, and to improve themselves daily. Savvy to the changes that are happening to the industry, we are capable of pinpointing market transformations and evolutions. Doing so empowers us to persevere with every challenge and help our client reach the most favourable outcome. Never straying from our commitment to novelty to move our practice forward wherever appropriate, Le&Tran attorneys uphold this discipline throughout their career at the firm.

Never stop learning

Aside from legal comprehension, we never cease to update our understanding on adjacent industries to best assist our clients. Relying on both our knowledge of the law and of our clients’ business mechanisms and cultures, professional limitations and risks, Le&Tran attorneys are poised to deliver the most sensible analyses and solutions to our clients. Fueled by grit and a devotion to information, we are not only warranting the most effective service but also giving our attorneys the confidence and power to grow, to make a difference to the firm, the clients, and the industry as a whole.

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Stephen is the senior trial lawyer and founder of Le & Tran. With years of extensive experience, Stephen has impressive litigation, arbitration and criminal defence background as well as a wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of how Vietnam’s legal system, courts and authorities operate. He has pursued the philosophy “Fighting for Justice” for his entire illustrious career.

In 2017, Stephen was the Winner of the prestigious “Disputes Star of the Year“ awarded by AsiaLaw Profiles in Hong Kong. He has followed up this achievement by receiving numerous additional accolades, including being endorsed as a preeminent trial lawyer of Vietnam by over 50 global corporations and has been highly ranked in Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal500, Benchmark Litigation, and AsiaLaw Profiles for consecutive years. Large multinational enterprises such as Petronas (Malaysia) endorsed Stephen as the Best Trial Lawyer they have ever worked with in Vietnam.

Overall, he has advised and represented more than 50 global corporations and over 200 individual clients in various legal matters and disputes.  In addition, Stephen is also an authoritative voice in the business community, conducting several legal seminars in conjunction with AmCham Vietnam and Le & Tran. At present, he has hosted and was the key speaker at 15 legal seminars and has published approximately 50 legal articles for the AmCham business community.

For his own practice and those of all Le & Tran attorneys, he strongly follows the belief that, “Any well trained lawyer can provide legal advice, but only an all-rounded professional can provide you with the tools you need to successfully reach your goals while complying with all the legal requirements”. 

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