Lawyer's character

"Then...can you save your life?" After a moment, Zhang Fangfang sat upright and stared at Meng Guangda, as if she was having a flashback.

"We have obtained a letter of understanding from the victim's family. Mr. Hu has voluntarily surrendered. We should not be sentenced to death immediately, but there may be a suspended death sentence. We will defend Mr. Hu as a minor offender and strive for life imprisonment." Meng Guangda replied road.

"Thank you." Zhang Fangfang was in a daze. Although she had been mentally prepared, when she heard Lawyer Meng's opinion, her heart still skipped a beat, as if a tall building had stepped on the ground.

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After returning from the holiday, Yun Qiao and Cao Yongzheng got busy. The cases signed a year ago will be held in court after the new year, which will keep them busy for a while.

Zhou Ping proposed to Fang Yi to resign. He really couldn't find colleagues who had the same language as him, and he felt very uncomfortable if this continued. He was also afraid of being excluded by other colleagues in the future, so he took the initiative to leave.

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Just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, senior brother Zhou Shen, whom he had not contacted for a long time, suddenly called Fang Yi and invited him to dinner.

At 7:30 in the evening, Fang Yi came to a private restaurant. This was a newly opened private restaurant. From the outside, it didn't look ordinary, but once inside, it was a different place, as if you had entered a prince's palace.

It is said that those who come here to eat are either rich or expensive, and they must book at least a week in advance to get a seat. After entering the door, Fang Yi reported Zhou Shen's phone number and was taken to a private room inside by a young woman dressed in simple clothes.

"Junior brother, you are late, so you have to drink three drinks as a penalty." As soon as Fang Yi walked in, Zhou Shen stood up and said with a smile.

There were only Fang Yi and Zhou Shen in the huge private room. The decoration in the private room was very elegant, with ancient charm, giving people a feeling of traveling back in time.

"Senior brother is right, you should drink three drinks as a penalty." Fang Yi said with a smile.

"Long time no see. Let's take advantage of the time just after the New Year for us brothers to get together. Don't be polite. There is no one else today, just the two of us.

You accept this, an authentic Cuban cigar. It's for you. "Zhou Shen handed over two boxes of cigars.

Fang Yi took the cigar and sighed in his heart. The first cigar he smoked was given to him by Zhou Shen, and it was Zhou Shen who taught him how to smoke a cigar. The past events are vivid in his mind.

Soon, the wine and food were put on the table, and the two brothers exchanged glasses.

"Junior brother, I haven't seen you for more than a year. Now you are a well-known local barrister. How do you feel?" Zhou Shen said with a smile.

He sighed in his heart: No wonder Fang Yi rejected his invitation at first, but now it seems that Fang Yi is still smart. Think about your own law firm now, hey! Nominally, he is the director of a law firm, but his rights are limited to professional matters, and he is hampered in everything he wants to do.

"You are not a lawyer, but you are just a little famous. We work together. We have money to earn, things to do, and getting along is the most important thing." Fang Yi put down his chopsticks and said with a smile.

"Well, it is indeed." Zhou Shen's eyes were full of envy.

"Brother, how are you? Your law firm is in the capital and has more business opportunities than ours. It must be developing well." Fang Yi took the Su Yan handed over from Zhou Shen and asked.

"Well, there are a lot of opportunities, but the competition is also fierce. There are 30,000 to 40,000 lawyers with lawyer certificates. Even though only 80% of them are actually lawyers, there are still a lot of people. From listings to mergers and acquisitions and other high-threshold businesses, From low-threshold businesses such as labor disputes, to providing legal services to assisting tyrants, there are people doing all kinds of business.

Our law firm mainly deals in non-litigation business. Although it is somewhat well-known in the industry and has a few regular large clients, the development of the law firm is not ideal. Our non-litigation business relies too heavily on relationships. Once the client is managed, When layers change, our business will be affected, and our success will be as bad as our failure! Zhou Shen sighed.

"Actually, it doesn't matter whether you have new clients or not. As long as Defa Group develops well, your law firm will not lack business." Fang Yi knew that Zhou Shen's law firm was actually a subsidiary of Defa Group. As long as Defa Group did not If it goes bankrupt, Zhou Shen won’t have to worry about business.

But Fang Yi didn't know that the chairman of Defa Group had been replaced at the end of last year. Several of Zhou Defa's children were not talented. In the end, his nephew Chen Xuekun, who had been his secretary for a long time, gained Zhou Defa's trust and succeeded in taking over.

Although this Chen Xuekun is not a member of Zhou's family, he has always been highly regarded by Zhou Defa. Zhou Defa paid for all the expenses for college in China and MBA at Harvard. He also worked abroad for many years and was later called back to be Zhou Defa's secretary.

Zhou Shen originally thought that he had a chance to compete for the chairman's seat and enter the core management, but he did not expect that Zhou Defa would position him as the general counsel of Defa Group, which is equivalent to using him to supervise and restrict Chen Xuekun and all legal affairs of the group. Zhou Shen has the final say on all issues.

Moreover, Zhou Shen has the right to participate in the board of directors as a legal advisor and express opinions. At first, Zhou Shen didn't understand Zhou Defa's arrangement. Later, after being prompted by his father, he understood that Zhou Defa didn't want his nephew Zhou Shen to be deeply involved in the management of the group, so that if there was a problem with the Defa Group, Zhou Shen could escape unscathed. Not to be implicated.

Zhou Shen didn't know the origin of Zhou Defa's concerns, but entrepreneurs had many original sins. Maybe Zhou Defa had smelled something.

Chen Xuekun's current status is equivalent to that of a professional manager. Since he took office, he has carried out drastic reforms on the group. Defa Construction in this city will soon be sold due to insufficient profitability and excessive operating costs.

If Defa Construction is sold, the business of the branch established by Zhou Shen in this city will be greatly reduced, and there will be no need for its existence anymore. This was exactly what Zhou Shen didn't want to see, but it was decided upon by the group's board of directors and he had no choice but to find a way out for his brothers in the branch in advance.

"Hey, Junior Brother, I'll tell you to tell you the truth, the Defa Group is developing very well now. To transform into a technology-based enterprise, Defa Construction in this city will be divested and sold. The higher-ups have already decided, and I can't do anything about it.

After Defa Construction was sold, our local branch had very little business left.

Originally, I wanted to use the relationship with Defa Construction to develop the local market, but I have been busy collecting business in the past two years and have not paid attention to the branch office. Now it is too late to open up. "After Zhou Shen finished speaking, he took a deep breath from the cigarette, slowly exhaled the smoke, and looked at the exquisite bonsai beside him, his eyes full of unfulfilled ambition.

At first, he really wanted to go big, make the law firm bigger, and squeeze into the ranks of the big law firms in Beijing. However, Defa Group didn't think so. It always regarded Zhou Shen's law firm as its own legal department, and added The higher-ups are fighting to prevent the law firm from growing too big and are afraid of losing control, so the development of the law firm is restricted.

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