Lawyer's character

While talking, the two of them came to the workstation next to the window. At this moment, a thin male lawyer in his fifties was sitting at the workstation, sipping tea from a large teacup and staring at a document in his hand. The table was filled with case files and it was a mess.

"Lawyer Xie, do you always drink tea?" Mei Xiaoting said softly, half jokingly.

"That's what I'm saying. I'm studying the case file materials carefully. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, it will kill people!" Xie Youhe said as he put down the materials in his hand.

"Come on, you've been staring at this document for almost an hour, and you've refilled the water in your teacup twice, so you're not tired! Besides, the poker cards aren't here, so what are you afraid of?" Mei Xiaoting said. He whispered with disdain.

"I..., who is this?" Xie Youhe looked up and was about to teach Mei Xiaoting a few words when he suddenly saw Fang Yi behind her and immediately stood up and asked seriously.

"This is Lawyer Fang Yifang, who specializes in litigation. He just joined our team. Boss Gu asked me to bring Lawyer Fang over to get to know everyone. By the way, there will be a dinner party in the evening. Please eat less at noon." Mei Xiaoting said with a smile. .

"Litigation! Okay! I, Xie Youhe, also focus on litigation. Lawyer Fang, we should help each other and cooperate more in the future." Xie Youhe heard that Fang Yi was a litigation lawyer. Instead of showing any rejection, Xie Youhe did not show any rejection. Extremely enthusiastic.

Fang Yi sighed in his heart, lawyers in big firms are just extraordinary. Look at lawyer Xie Youhe, how enthusiastic he is. He is not afraid at all that I will steal his business and earn commission. It's just... the words "help" and "cooperate" feel a bit weird!

Fang Yi's workstation is arranged next to Xie Youhe's to facilitate communication. It was the first time I sat in such a large workstation, which seemed a bit empty. There were computers, phones, folders and office supplies on the table. There was a small cabinet under the table and a key on the drawer.

Mei Xiaoting brought some team documents to Fang Yi to familiarize Fang Yi with the team's requirements and commission methods. It doesn’t matter whether you read the other documents or not. You must read the case (project) commission method because it involves personal interests.

For cases with legal fees of less than 200,000 yuan, the commission for the sponsoring lawyer is 10%. For cases with legal fees of more than 200,000 yuan, the commission is reduced by 2% for every 100,000 yuan. For cases with legal fees of more than 500,000 yuan, the commission is another 10%. discussion.

In addition, if the lawyer's fee is less than 10,000 yuan, the lawyer's commission will be 500 yuan for each case. Fang Yi understands that this forces the lawyer not to take cases with low lawyer fees and focus his limited energy on cases with high lawyer fees.

The auxiliary lawyer's commission is calculated in the same way as the lead lawyer's commission, except that the commission is 5% for cases under 200,000 yuan. For cases where the lawyer's fee is less than 10,000 yuan, the auxiliary lawyer does not have a commission. Of course, simple cases do not require auxiliary handling. lawyer.

At noon, Lawyer Sima did not come back. Mei Xiaoting, who was sitting at the first desk, ran over and asked everyone if they wanted to order food or go out to eat.

Zhou Yunyuan was busy writing a due diligence report. He took out a box of instant noodles from the drawer of the small table under his work station, shook it at Mei Xiaoting, and went straight to making instant noodles. He wanted to take advantage of the time when the instant noodles were fully exposed to hot water, moistened, softened, expanded and fattened, and wrote the report as fast as possible.

Xie Youhe claimed that he had eaten too much in the morning and stopped eating at noon. Fang Yi speculated that he was waiting for the big meal in the evening.

After an hour and a half break at noon, Fang Yi originally wanted to go back to his residence to make lunch and take a nap after eating, but when he saw that no one was going out to eat, Mei Xiaoting looked disappointed. He stood up and invited her out to eat.

In fact, Fang Yi was selfish. He wanted to take advantage of the lunch break to chat and inquire about the team's situation. Some things were not visible on the surface. The most authentic information was conveyed inadvertently through private communication.

Fang Yi originally wanted to invite Mei Xiaoting to lunch, but Mei Xiaoting declined. Maybe it was because they were not familiar with each other, so he was embarrassed to let Fang Yi treat him. The two of them had a rice bowl at the fast food restaurant downstairs.

"Lawyer Mei, what does our team do in non-litigation business?" Fang Yi asked.

In his concept, there are many types of non-litigation businesses, such as large ones such as listing, and small ones such as reviewing legal documents. Some are profitable and some are time-consuming and labor-intensive but not profitable.

“Our team’s non-litigation business mainly focuses on bond issuance, as well as investment due diligence. Yesterday, Mr. Gu and Lawyer Zhou just returned from doing investment due diligence in other provinces and are rushing to report.

Lawyer Sima and I are in charge of a bond issuance project, and we returned from other provinces last week. In short, I am busy with everything, traveling with my suitcases all year round, and my time in the office is limited. "Mei Xiaoting took a sip of the free egg soup and said.

"Non-litigation should be very profitable, right? If you work outside all year round, does Lawyer Gu have time to develop litigation business?" Fang Yi asked doubtfully.

"How should I put it..., the non-litigation business was quite profitable before. Boss Gu cooperated with investment companies, but now it is not so good. There are more lawyers and more law firms. They lower the prices of each other, and the investment in a project is exhausted. Adjustment, the legal fees have dropped from 100,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan now, but the work is not much, and I have to help clients write agreements. Do you think I can make money! Pure legal migrant workers.

It has been difficult to do non-litigation business in the past two years. In order to generate income for the team, he began to take on litigation cases. Lawyer Xie and Boss Gu are old friends. Later, Boss Gu hired him from another law firm to specialize in litigation business. This year, the litigation business has gradually improved, and there are more cases, so we have begun to recruit lawyers who are good at litigation.

I heard that in addition to you, we also need to recruit another litigation lawyer. The team's litigation department has three people as standard, with Xie Laokou in charge. "Mei Xiaoting said.

"Oh, it seems that Attorney Gu wants to go hand in hand with litigation and non-litigation, so both sides are blooming!" Fang Yi said with a smile.

"Well, almost. Don't look at the small number of people in our team. In fact, our team is among the top three in the institute. Other teams are not as good as us. Some are teams in name, but in fact they are just a bunch of stragglers. It's a loose alliance, no one cares about anyone, they work together when they have money to make, but when they don't make money, they go back to their own homes and find their own livelihood," Mei Xiaoting said.

"That Lawyer Sima seems to be hard to talk to..." Fang Yi asked casually.

"Lawyer Sima has strong professional ability. She was the assistant to Boss Gu when the team was founded. Later, step by step, she became the second-in-command of our team in the non-litigation field. I have been doing business with her in the past two years.

Her life is basically work, and work is everything in her life. Her husband divorced because he couldn't stand it. She was very strict with me and Lawyer Zhou. I received a lot of training from her, but after two years of working with her, I learned a lot more than I did in the past.

Why! To be honest, everyone thinks of her first when doing work. She is in charge of the project, so everyone can rest assured. Speaking of other things... No one in the whole company wanted to deal with her except Boss Gu. "Mei Xiaoting said.

Happy New Year to all my book friends! happy New Year!

Two chapters today! Save some manuscripts. Let's get together for the New Year's Eve dinner first. I'll work overtime these two days to catch up on a few more chapters.