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Built on our standing as Korea's 9th-ranked law firm and a global network connecting the world, Daeryun Law upholds the One-Firm principle to protect our clients' rights and interests.
Daeryun operates on a 'responsibility execution system' in which senior partner attorneys with rich practical experience and know-how personally lead each client's case from the front and communicate closely with the client. Attorneys with extensive experience in steering countless real-world cases toward outcomes favorable to their clients personally lead the entire process—from legal consultation and strategy formulation to drafting written submissions and court appearances. At the same time, highly capable associate attorneys and specialists in particular fields support the work swiftly and accurately, ensuring a rapid and seamless response.
In addition, Daeryun harnesses its in-house developed 'AI Daeryun' system and the full force of its specialized infrastructure—including evidence investigation and digital forensics—to deliver the pinnacle of legal tech, while real-time communication through the 'My Daeryun' app turns clients' anxiety into satisfaction with the outcome.
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The 10 Principles of Daeryun, Korea's 9th-ranked law firm(※ Based on 2025 National Tax Service VAT filings)
The strengths and strategy that will carry Daeryun Law—which through rapid, extraordinary growth has become both a global mega law firm and Korea's 9th-ranked law firm—beyond the No. 1 position in Korea to leap to the world's No. 1
1. The One-Firm Principle, Powered by a Matrix System
Daeryun Law Firm operates as a One-Firm powered by a matrix system, bringing together hundreds of attorneys and specialists across the globe. Rather than having a single lawyer handle every aspect of a case alone, Daeryun's attorneys are organized into highly specialized groups and teams, each focused on a distinct practice area such as M&A, antitrust, intellectual property, international arbitration, financial regulation, and corporate criminal defense. When a case comes in, multiple attorneys, practice groups, and senior specialists work in close coordination, collaborating to tackle the matter from every angle. Take a large-scale corporate acquisition as an example. A deal like that does not just involve drafting contracts. It simultaneously triggers tax issues, HR and labor concerns, multi-jurisdictional antitrust reviews, environmental compliance, and more. In situations like these, Daeryun deploys specialists from the relevant practice groups across its global offices, working together to resolve every issue under one roof. The same applies when a corporate governance matter carries criminal exposure, or when an M&A dispute has a real estate dimension woven into it. Whenever a single matter involves overlapping and complex risks, Daeryun's practice groups and specialists across its global network come together, examining the case from every angle to deliver the best possible outcome for the client.
2. Senior Partners Leading Every Case, From the First Consultation to the Final Verdict
At Daeryun, every case is led by experienced senior partners who take personal responsibility for the matter, directing teams of associate attorneys and coordinating across practice groups from start to finish. At most law firms, a former judge, prosecutor, or senior government official is put front and center in the marketing, giving clients the impression that this person will be personally handling their case, only for the actual work, the briefs, the court appearances, to be handed off entirely to junior associates. And even when the senior attorney does get personally involved, their track record as a practicing attorney often falls far short of what their biography implies. This pattern has drawn widespread criticism as false or misleading advertising. Daeryun works differently. Every case is handled by senior partners at the helm of dedicated practice groups and panels, attorneys with deep hands-on experience in the relevant field, who personally lead the strategy, manage the associate attorneys, and coordinate with outside specialists throughout the entire engagement. Daeryun also recognized something that most firms overlook. Clients who are not legal experts often have no reliable way of knowing which practice area their case actually falls under. To address this, Daeryun built a structured, multi-stage intake and consultation system, modeled after the way a patient moves from an emergency room to a specialist, triaged, accurately diagnosed, and referred to the right expert. Dedicated intake attorneys serve as the firm's legal first responders. Through an initial consultation, they assess the case, identify the precise practice area it belongs to, and route it to the attorney or team best suited to handle it based on their specific experience. These intake attorneys are not simply screeners. They remain involved in the case, helping shape the overall direction of the defense strategy alongside the assigned team. Once a case has been assessed and assigned, it moves to the relevant practice group or panel. That group is anchored by senior partners who personally lead every stage that follows, the in-depth second consultation, strategy sessions, brief drafting, legal advisory work, court appearances, and ongoing strategy reviews. Associates and specialists support and reinforce them throughout, but the senior partner drives the process. At Daeryun, a senior partner is involved from the first conversation to the final resolution, with associates and practice-area specialists filling every gap along the way to ensure the case is handled quickly, precisely, and without anything falling through the cracks.
3. Deploying as Many Expert Attorneys as a Case Demands
Daeryun has been fortunate to earn a level of trust from its clients that goes well beyond what the firm might modestly claim to deserve. Not only do new clients continue to come in, but a substantial number of clients who have previously worked with Daeryun return when they face new legal challenges. That pattern of repeat business reflects the results the firm has delivered. The growing volume of returning clients, combined with consistent new referrals, has meant a steady and sharp rise in active matters across the firm. The caseload each Daeryun attorney carries is significantly higher than the industry average. But that reality is also one of Daeryun's greatest strengths. Because Daeryun's attorneys handle a high volume of cases within their specific practice areas, they accumulate real-world, hands-on experience at a pace that most attorneys cannot match. The result is a team where every attorney, across every practice area, has handled enough cases to resolve new ones quickly and accurately, with a level of skill that is consistently high across the board. In professional fields like law and medicine, a specialist's ability is measured by the depth of their experience solving real problems in the field. The more cases one has handled, the sharper the instincts and the faster the judgment. The likelihood of a favorable outcome rises in proportion to the number of experienced specialists working on a case. Just as a general practitioner can handle routine care but would not lead a complex surgery, difficult legal matters require the right specialists, properly identified, properly matched, and working together as a coordinated team. This is Daeryun's operating principle. For every case, regardless of its size, the firm deploys as many experienced, senior-level specialists as the matter warrants, with the goal of delivering the best possible outcome for every client. At the center of it all are the senior partners, leading their panels and directing teams of associates and specialists, ensuring that every angle is covered and every opportunity to advance the client's interests is acted upon. Daeryun's senior specialists do not simply rely on the experience they have already accumulated. They continue to add to it every day, handling more cases and building sharper judgment as they go. Every one of them has earned recognition as a genuine expert in their field, not by title alone, but by the volume and quality of work they have done. In every significant case, several of them come together as a panel, bringing their collective judgment to bear on a single client's matter. That is Daeryun's foundational principle: maximum expertise, deployed as a team, on every case. One further reason Daeryun's attorneys are able to handle a high volume of cases with speed and precision is that they do not work alone. Behind every attorney is a deep bench of subject-matter specialists and the proprietary AI Daeryun platform, designed to handle the operational and analytical load so that attorneys can focus on what only they can do, applying legal judgment, building the strongest possible argument, and advocating hard for the client.
4. Integrating Advanced Legal Technology at Every Stage
An attorney's core responsibility is straightforward: analyze the facts, apply the law accurately, gather the strongest possible evidence, and argue the case with full commitment. At Daeryun, that is exactly what attorneys focus on, and everything else is handled by a purpose-built support system of specialists and proprietary technology, including AI Daeryun, Daeryun Top, and My Daeryun. These platforms work in the background to keep cases moving efficiently, accurately, and without anything slipping through the cracks. Daeryun developed these tools in-house, applying the latest in legal technology across the full lifecycle of a case. The suite includes a case assignment system that matches each matter to the most appropriate practice group and attorney team; a case review and support platform that ensures every possible angle is examined during consultations and ongoing case analysis; a strategy simulation system for modeling outcomes and identifying the most advantageous path forward; an AI-driven contract analysis tool and e-Discovery system for matters involving large volumes of documents, due diligence reviews, extensive precedent research, and complex litigation discovery; and a real-time client communication platform that keeps clients informed at every step. Across every stage of a case, intake, analysis, strategy, execution, and resolution, Daeryun's legal technology infrastructure makes each step more precise. The goal remains consistent: in every case, at every stage, the client receives the best possible result.
5. Systematic Global Collaboration, Modeled on the Global Mega-Firm
Global mega-firms are built to handle the most complex, high-stakes legal matters in the world, serving multinational corporations, financial institutions, and sovereign governments. What makes them effective is not size alone. It is efficiency, deep specialization, and the ability to mobilize expertise across jurisdictions at scale. Daeryun is built on the same model. Across offices in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Seoul, Busan, Shanghai, London, Singapore, Hanoi, and Dubai, with some currently in the process of opening, Daeryun's attorneys collaborate continuously across time zones and borders. For a cross-border M&A transaction, attorneys from three or four different offices may be working together simultaneously, reviewing the regulatory environment in each jurisdiction, analyzing the target company's fundamentals, and building a unified strategy that accounts for every relevant factor. That kind of coordinated cross-border capability gives Daeryun a clear advantage in any deal or dispute where the laws of more than one country are involved. When country-specific regulatory or political risk enters the picture, local counsel in the relevant office can assess it immediately and accurately, with no delay and no loss of context.
6. Principle of Utilizing Extensive Resources and Databases
Daeryun Law Firm has accumulated extensive resources and proprietary databases through its representation of numerous government agencies, corporations, and individual clients. In addition, through its worldwide network of cooperating law firms, Daeryun has accumulated and maintains a vast repository of legal resources, including precedents, contract forms, court-decision analyses, transactional know-how, and practice materials from jurisdictions across the globe. In addition, Daeryun has made substantial investments in legal-tech-based research tools, including its proprietary AI platforms Daeryun AI, Daeryun Top, and My Daeryun, contract analysis platforms, and the development of systems for effectively utilizing its extensive internal precedent databases, thereby improving both efficiency and quality of work at the same time. Based on this, even with respect to unusual issues that would ordinarily seem to be encountered for the first time in the industry, there is a high probability that somewhere among the worldwide offices of Daeryun Law Firm's global network, an answer to such issue exists within these vast resources and materials. Therefore, Daeryun can provide a solution to any difficult matter without trial and error.
7. Principle of Building a Team of Hundreds of Lawyers and Professionals with Outstanding Reputations from Around the World
The lawyers and professionals of Daeryun Law Firm are completely different from ordinary lawyers in terms of their experience, credentials, and capabilities. Among the distinguished lawyers with outstanding abilities from around the world, only those lawyers with exceptional capabilities, credentials, and experience who have been rigorously selected through Daeryun's thorough internal vetting process are selected to join Daeryun. Through this rigorous verification process, Daeryun Law Firm's hundreds of attorneys and experts in various fields who have become members of Daeryun work together as a single team for each case, handling large-scale and highly complex transactions simultaneously. They possess know-how accumulated over many years in specific industries and legal fields as well, making it possible to respond effectively even in unprecedented cases based on similar experience. In addition, Daeryun Law Firm provides them with industry-leading compensation and benefits, and continuously strengthens its formidable manpower by constantly recruiting not only graduates of top-ranked law schools from around the world, but also former judges, prosecutors, police officers, and regulatory and policy experts from various government agencies.
8. The Principle of Brand Power and Trust as Korea’s 9th-Ranked Law Firm and a Global Mega Law Firm
For a global mega law firm and Korea’s 9th-ranked law firm such as Daeryun Law Firm, its global scale with networks around the world and the vast case-handling experience that comes from it are, in themselves, negotiating power. Accordingly, the name of a global mega law firm itself acts as a powerful signal and influence on opposing parties in disputes and regulatory authorities, and the mere fact that a global mega law firm has represented a particular company or issued a Legal Opinion itself becomes an intangible weapon that provides strong trust and legal credibility to a company’s board of directors, investors, the industry, the market, regulatory authorities, and counterparties, while simultaneously increasing negotiating power.
9. Specialized Support Principle for Evidence Investigation, Digital Forensics, Security, and Other Specialized Fields
Daeryun Law Firm possesses a comprehensive infrastructure that is capable of supporting not only traditional forms of assistance for clients, including comprehensive advisory services, litigation, arbitration, legal representation, and management consulting, but also specialized fields such as evidence investigation and collection, digital forensics, security services, and psychological counseling for the enhancement of client services. Under the fundamental principle that the outcome of all disputes is determined by the evidence, the result of every dispute ultimately depends on the evidence. However, with respect to the collection of such critically important evidence, the reality is that the vast majority of law firms still require clients to locate and bring the evidence for their own cases themselves. However, to ensure that clients do not have to go through such inconvenience, Daeryun Law Firm operates an Evidence Investigation Center and carries out meticulous evidence collection through a customized evidence investigation process under which the firm itself searches for clear and important evidence capable of changing the course of a case. In addition, while operating a Digital Forensics Center, Daeryun Law Firm goes beyond the mere recovery of data through its dedicated professionals and proven technologies, and establishes strategies for the selection of evidence and its legal utilization in accordance with the progression of the case. And, with the assistance of partner security service providers, Daeryun Law Firm establishes a crisis-response system for the personal protection and peace of mind of its clients, and even provides security services by deploying security personnel from its partner firms at the appropriate places and times in response to various personal safety threats. Daeryun Law Firm also, with the assistance of psychological care professionals, provides systematic mental care services to objectively document the psychological harm suffered by clients and to support their emotional recovery from the trauma and distress caused by various legal matters and incidents.
10. Client Satisfaction Principle
Daeryun Law Firm operates its engagement system in a transparent and fair manner through clear compensation standards and a fixed-fee policy, and through clearly established compensation standards for each matter and a fixed-fee pricing system for legal retainers. In addition, Daeryun Law Firm operates a Litigation Quality Assurance Program, enabling clients to entrust their matters to the firm with confidence and peace of mind. Daeryun, through its Litigation Service Quality Assurance Program, takes immediate company-wide corrective action regarding any element with which a client is dissatisfied after engaging the firm. And if satisfaction still cannot be achieved despite such efforts, Daeryun follows a policy of promptly reconciling and refunding the retainer fee already paid based on the degree of progress of the matter. Daeryun Law Firm understands well that the resolution of a matter is not the end, and in order to listen more closely to the voices of its clients, it operates a Client Satisfaction Center that receives client inquiries and feedback, shares them with all members of the firm, and ensures that clients’ comments do not simply end with submission, but instead lead to actual service improvements and more attentive responses from its attorneys. And through the implementation of My Daeryun, a proprietary real-time online communication application developed by the firm, clients are provided with a communication channel shared with their responsible attorneys and case team, through which they can engage in real-time Q&A, track case progress, and upload and download relevant files. Ultimately, Daeryun Law Firm does not let even the smallest client voice go unheard. Daeryun Law Firm carefully reviews every opinion, thoroughly accepts all reasonable client feedback, and systematically incorporates such feedback into its operations and systems. Accordingly, Daeryun Law Firm thoroughly restructures its systems to ensure that any client complaint will never again be repeated by anyone, and it thoroughly strengthens its systems so that any client satisfaction does not remain at that level of satisfaction, but instead allows the firm to provide more satisfying services to all clients. In this way, Daeryun Law Firm and all of its members, with a humble mindset at all times, deeply recognize that we exist today because there are clients who choose to come to Daeryun, and we always carry a sense of gratitude toward our clients. In this way, we endeavor to provide the best satisfaction we can to the many clients who, for which we are grateful, continue to come to us, and furthermore, to offer a positive experience that can only be felt at Daeryun. Through the encouragement and support of clients who are highly satisfied with our legal services, we are a law firm that is becoming stronger and stronger. Daeryun Law Firm, going beyond its position as Korea’s 9th-ranked law firm and a global mega law firm, will become a law firm that moves forward even more relentlessly toward becoming the world’s number one law firm, taking as its nourishment the positive experiences, encouragement, and support of countless clients.
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