Lawyer's character

Fang Yi and the other three looked at each other, each thinking about their own plans and remaining silent.

In the end, Xie Youhe was the first to break the silence. According to Assistant Feng, the salary of the case lawyer was pretty good. After pondering for a moment, he chose to be the case lawyer. He is getting older and no longer wants to run around handling cases to earn hard money. He just wants to retire peacefully, earn some money for food and drink, and live a down-to-earth life.

Wang Deyou thinks that the legal advisory department is very good. It has a basic salary and commissions. The most important thing is stability. Although the litigation department sounds good, what if there are not so many cases... The days when there are no cases and no money will make him very Anxious, Alexander, there was only one spot in the legal advisory department, so he expressed his intention to go to the legal advisory department first.

Fang Yi, the lawyer who negotiates the case, will not do it. He feels that if he talks but does not do anything, his future development space will be limited, and his practicing years are still short. Even if he wants to negotiate the case, the team will not allow it.

Not to mention the legal advisory department, there is only one quota, and Wang Deyou has already applied. Fang Yi feels that there is no need to compete with him since they are all his own. In addition, in the past few years, he has been serving consulting companies a lot. He has a lot of work to do but little money. He is too tied to people and is not his own client. This kind of job is not what he wants.

In the end, Fang Yi had no choice but to work as a lawyer in the litigation department. The cases in the firm were awarded 40-60 points, and the individual cases were awarded 30-70 points. Although there was no basic salary, if he could get a case every month, he would not have to worry about food and drink. Anyway, let’s do it for a while first. It is better than staying at Jinshi Law Firm and working as a commission lawyer with no one to provide the source of the case. At least Lawyer Wan's team can support some cases as a transition before independence.

In fact, this treatment can only be enjoyed by the team of three founding partners, and there is a scale limit, because the law firm and these three teams share the accounts according to the ratio of 1.5 to 8.5, and the law firm only gets 15%. of legal fees (including invoicing costs), and the rest belongs to Wan Lawyers’ team. This is the best treatment given to the three founding partners by all partners. The law firm and other teams and commission lawyers are divided according to a 30-7 ratio.

The law firm only deducts 15% of the legal fees for Lawyer Wan's team. The legal fees for Lawyer Wan's team can be deducted 25% for their own case sources (the individual case team can be deducted 15%) in order to encourage lawyers in the litigation department to develop their own business. Source of the case), in fact, the team’s most stable income is the legal advisory business, with an annual revenue of nearly 10 million. Of course, the requirements for legal advisors are relatively high. Wang Deyou only had the opportunity to join the legal advisory team because of Gu Datong’s favor. Otherwise, with his qualifications... haha.

Early the next morning, Xie Youhe went to see Gu Datong on behalf of Fang Yi and Wang Deyou and told him about his visit to Wanhua United Law Firm yesterday.

Seeing that his three litigation lawyers were all settled, Gu Datong felt a lot more at ease. Originally, he could have broken up with the three lawyers in the litigation team after paying the year-end bonus, and merged his non-litigation team into Wanhua United Law Firm, where the conditions would be better and he would get more benefits.

But Gu Datong doesn’t want his friends and colleagues to stab him in the back, especially Xie Youhe. The two have been friends for more than ten years. He was the one who brought Lawyer Xie over to form the litigation team. Now if he ignores Lawyer Xie, he will have a bad conscience. He couldn't get through it, and both Fang Yi and Wang Deyou did a good job. Finally, he discussed with Xie Youhe and made the three of them join Wanhua United Law Firm as a condition of negotiation.

Recently, many partners in the law firm have started to go through the withdrawal procedures, and the administrative specialists are very busy. The cases in hand were almost finished, and Fang Yi began to think about the issue of where to live. His current residence is very close to Jinshi Law Firm, but it is a bit far from Wanhua United Law Firm. It takes more than half an hour by bus. Basically, Fang Yi can accept it. Moving was too troublesome, and the lease period was not yet up, so Fang Yi finally gave up the idea of ​​moving.

On this day, Fang Yi received a call from his senior brother Zhou Shen, whom he had not contacted for a long time, and asked him to get together at the hotel where he was staying in the evening. Fang Yi understood that this time Zhou Shen asked him to go there for more than just a get-together.

In a five-star hotel suite, Zhou Shen was sitting on the sofa with a cigar in his hand. His face was no longer as free and unrestrained as before, and he looked serious. Fang Yi sat opposite him. No matter how much he smoked the cigar in his hand, he still couldn't feel the taste of the past because he was in a wrong mood.

"I had expected the turmoil in the branch. I have been busy with the listing of companies under the Defa Group some time ago and rarely go back to the firm. But I have heard a lot about it. The integrated partner of the law firm you mentioned Unacceptability is just the trigger." Zhou Shen looked at Fang Yi.

fuse? So what's the root cause? Fang Yi was startled, then looked at him, waiting for the next step.

"The reason is a battle of interests, a battle for control of the Jinshi Law Firm's city branch. The branch management wants to use this integration to strengthen centralization. As early as a few years ago, the branch manager Dissatisfied with the boss's interference in everything.

As for the head office in Beijing, I feel that the branch office uses its own brand and resources. A large amount of money is transferred from the branch office every year. The branch managers have separate accounts inside. Although it is not much, it cannot sustain the large base. After one year, Income is still very objective. Now the manager of the branch office feels that his wings have become stiff and he wants to separate and live independently, but the head office naturally disagrees.

But the branch office feels that it has not been using your head office's brand in vain these years, and it has to pay management fees every year. The conflict between the two parties has been going on for several years, and the ice is not frozen overnight! Zhou Shen said calmly.

Fang Yi didn't expect that such a big law firm would have such a bullshit incident. Thinking about it, this kind of thing could only happen in a larger law firm, because a small law firm has no branches.

"It is said that the branch office reported it to the main office some time ago!" Zhou Shen said.

"Reported?!" Fang Yi looked incredulous that he could still operate like this! They are born from the same roots, so why be too hasty!

"Well, I haven't been in the law firm all this time. I heard it from my colleagues at the head office. It is said that the branch office complained to the Justice Bureau that the head office used funds from large foreign investors to operate and develop the law firm. It is suspected that the law firm is controlled by foreign capital. .

In fact, the branch office is not clean either. According to rumors, the manager of the branch office has been flirting and flirting with some capital investors in the past two years. Zhou Shen took a puff of his cigar and said.

"Aren't all law firms established by lawyers and serving as partners? How could this be?" Fang Yi blinked and asked in confusion.

"Junior brother, I have long told you to change your platform and come to the capital to practice law, but it's a pity that you don't want to come. There are many things in the lawyer circle that you can't experience in the county. Even the city's law firms sometimes have relatively little information.

Nowadays, many large law firms have financial partners behind them. Otherwise, how could they have grown to dozens or even hundreds of branches in just a few years? Where did they get the money to do this? There is no way the law firm partners would pay for this!

For partners and lawyers, a law firm is just a platform for them to make money, but asking them to pay is more difficult than cutting off their own flesh. Not many lawyers are willing to spend a lot of money. Zhou Shen said.