Lawyer's character

Chapter 300 Gu Datong, the loyal person

In the afternoon of the next day, after lunch, the three members of the litigation team took a taxi to Wanhua United Law Firm.

The person who received them was a male lawyer in his thirties wearing glasses. According to his self-introduction, his surname is Feng, and he is the assistant to the director of Wanke Law. This assistant is not a paralegal in the ordinary sense, but has management authority. It is equivalent to the position of assistant to the president in the company, and is responsible for the team. Internal management and coordination work.

“Let me first introduce the situation and treatment of the team. Lawyer Wan’s team has a total of thirty-eight lawyers and ten paralegals.

Our team is mainly divided into two departments, the legal advisory department and the litigation department.

The legal advisory department currently has 20 lawyers and eight paralegals. The legal advisory units include five financial institutions such as banks and 12 large construction companies, including eight Chinese-owned enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and the rest are private enterprises. In addition, there are 25 medium-sized private enterprises and 12 government agencies. Mainly serving legal advisory units. There is a base salary and commission.

The litigation department has eighteen lawyers and two paralegals. The paralegals are mainly responsible for preparing entrustment procedures and copying for lawyers, as well as daily confirmation of assigned cases. Lawyers in the litigation department do not have a basic salary. They receive a commission for handling cases within the firm, which is 40% to 60%, and the lawyers receive 60%. Apart from personal income tax and social security, no other fees are required. Individual cases are allocated according to a ratio of 30% to 70%, and lawyers are allocated 70%. Except for personal income tax and social security, no other fees need to be deducted.

At the end of this year, five lawyers will transfer to other firms or become commission lawyers, so our team needs to recruit lawyers in advance. It just so happens that Lawyer Gu's team is about to be transferred, so after evaluation, three of your lawyers will join our team, and it will be enough for us to recruit two more lawyers to fill the vacancies.

If you don't understand anything, you can ask me. "Assistant Feng said.

"Assistant Feng, please ask, there are eighteen lawyers in the litigation department. Is their workload full?" Xie Youhe asked.

"Judging from last year's statistics, if the average number of cases assigned to the firm is two cases per litigation lawyer per month, it is no problem. Of course, there are some cases where the parties explicitly request a certain lawyer to do it, so such cases cannot be handled. Assigned to other attorneys.

In addition, our team’s case fee standard starts at a minimum of 10,000 yuan. If the case is from another province, the lawyer’s fee starts at 20,000 yuan. Of course, the legal fees for cases related to related households may be relatively low, but the number is not large. The team will settle the lawyer's fees according to the minimum legal fee standard of 10,000 yuan. "Assistant Feng said.

"So how do you allocate cases? Is it random, or..." Xie Youhe asked the question that Fang Yi wanted to ask.

Although it may seem simple to divide cases, it is actually related to the stability and development of a team. The teams of many law firms claim to divide cases according to the professional capabilities of the lawyers, but in practice most of them leave the hard work to themselves or their friends or stakeholders. Many lawyers in the team handle more than 100 cases a year, and no one else handles it. This is why you can make more money from three or five cases.

After all, no one who can be a lawyer is a fool. Even if you can't tell it in a short time, you will definitely find out the clues as time goes by. Either you transfer to another firm or practice in another team, and slowly the team will break up. So this issue is still very important.

“Except for cases that clients name and request a lawyer to handle, for other cases we will put the relevant information in a large group in the litigation department, and the lawyers will claim it on their own. Of course, those who are quick will take advantage of those who are slow.

Our paralegal will prepare all the procedures after confirming the attorney. Under the principle of more work, more gain, we have also set a limit for litigation lawyers. The number of cases claimed per month must not exceed three. There is an exception. Cases designated by the team leader are not counted.

Of course, if you get a case but find that you can't handle it alone, you can cooperate with other lawyers or transfer it to other lawyers. However, the distribution of commissions must be negotiated by the lawyers themselves and not by the team.

However, if you claim a case but cannot do it and have to return it, commission will be deducted, so you should be careful when claiming a case. During the case handling process, the lawyer is complained by the client. If the lawyer is found to have made mistakes or negligence, the commission will also be deducted.

In addition, it is a principle that the team is not allowed to cooperate with lawyers outside the team on its cases. "Assistant Feng said.

"Who is responsible for putting the case information in the group? Who is responsible for discussing the case?" Fang Yi asked.

These two issues are also very important. If the lawyer negotiating the case is inexperienced, it is easy for the signed case to be impossible to handle, or it will be very difficult to handle, which will lead to complaints. What's more, some people are willing to take commissions in order to sign a contract, which ultimately leads to the lawyer and the client being unable to communicate, and eventually the fee is refunded.

Another issue, who will be responsible for distributing case information, is also relatively sensitive, because the person distributing the case information will know the facts of the case immediately and may notify a lawyer with an interest to snatch the case in time. Fortunately, a lawyer can only handle three litigation cases at most in a month, which can offset this risk. Even so, Fang Yi still wants to know who is responsible for case allocation.

"Let me answer your first question first. The team's case negotiation lawyer must be a litigation lawyer with more than five years of practical experience, and must pass the team's assessment. If more than two cases are signed, the fees will be refunded due to technical problems. , then the case negotiation lawyer will leave. Of course, the case negotiation lawyer's salary is also very high, with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, plus case negotiation commission.

I forgot to mention it just now. Now we have a total of three trial lawyers, and we will add two more trial lawyers. If you are interested, you can apply. The trial lawyers do not belong to any department, and I am in charge.

The second question is who will release case information. This work is handled by another paralegal named Li of Lawyer Wan. This person is notoriously rigid in the team. No one can speak up on issues of principle. He is not a lawyer. "Assistant Feng said.

Fang Yi and the other two looked at each other. This way of allocating cases is more interesting. Although it is not perfect, it can reduce the risk a lot.

Then Wang Deyou asked several more questions of concern, and Assistant Feng answered them one by one.

“We now have three positions for you to choose from, lawyers in the litigation department, lawyers in the negotiation department and lawyers in the legal advisory department. There is only one quota for lawyers in the legal advisory department, two quotas for negotiation lawyers, and there are more quotas for litigation lawyers.

Attorney Gu has already given us your information before, and our evaluation work will be carried out tomorrow. However, as a condition for Attorney Gu's non-litigation team to transfer to our law firm, it is not a big problem for you three lawyers to join our team. You can choose a department first. "Assistant Feng said.

Only then did Fang Yi understand that the three of them entered Wanhua United Law Firm as a condition for the non-litigation team of Attorney Gu to be merged into the law firm's team. In other words, the three of them were accessories. Thinking like this, Fang Yi couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face. However, Gu Datong is still very affectionate, at least he has not abandoned everyone.

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