7 April 2005 – Edward Lehman, the managing director of Lehman, Lee & Xu has been named as one of only three Highly Recommended lawyers within the Greater China region by Practical Law's Life Sciences Handbook. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry, and was a lawyer for 10 years for the Chinese Research Development Pharmaceutical Association of China (RDPAC). From 1996 to the present, he has been a member of the Foreign Research-based Pharmaceutical Industry Association (FRPIA). Mr. Lehman has acted as counsel to the largest pharmaceutical firms in the world including Aventis, Bayer, and Eli Lilly. Edward Lehman is honored by this recognition, both for the firm and himself, as a legal practitioner.