Lawyer's character

Zhou Ying and Tian Xin are two paralegals in the litigation department. They are usually responsible for publishing case information in the business group, assisting lawyers in signing contracts, preparing entrustment procedures, etc. The work content is relatively trivial.

The entrustment procedures for civil cases are relatively simple and the same. They are only divided into entrustment procedures for legal persons and non-legal persons. However, the entrustment procedures for criminal cases are different. There are many kinds of entrustment procedures.

The documents used in the investigation stage, the documents used in the review and prosecution stage, and the documents used in the trial stage are all different, and many lawyers can't tell them clearly, let alone non-lawyers.

If you get up early in the morning and go to the detention center for a meeting, but are informed by the police that you have brought the wrong procedures and are not allowed to meet, you may say it is embarrassing or not, and you are angry or angry. If the client knew about it, he would probably call the lawyer a loser in his heart. This shows how important the work of Zhou Ying and Tian Xin is.

"I didn't work overtime. I just discussed legal issues with my colleagues." Fang Yi said with a smile.

"Lawyer Fang, I would like to ask you a few questions. I wonder if it is convenient for you." Tian Xin and Fang Yi were not very familiar with each other, so they were more polite when speaking.

Zhou Ying and Tian Xin usually work with different lawyers. Zhou Ying is in charge of Fang Yi, so although Tian Xin knows Fang Yi, they haven't spoken to each other much and are not too familiar with each other.

"Say it!" Fang Yi looked at Tian Xin.

Tian Xin graduated from a local university with a law major. She is tall and has good-looking features (it has to be said that the standards for selecting paralegals in large law firms are quite high). The little girl is very clever and quick in doing things. The lawyers in the firm speak highly of her.

In school, she was too preoccupied with taking the civil service exam, so she didn't take the judicial exam. Later, she failed the civil service exam, and came to a law firm last year to work as a paralegal.

Zhou Ying has been preparing for the judicial exam for the past two years. She took the exam last year and failed by one point. Encouraged by Zhou Ying, Tian Xin took the exam with her this year. The two would review at the law firm after get off work and didn't go back until after ten o'clock.

"That's right. I often hear teachers and classmates say that as a lawyer, especially when you are new to the profession, you must keep calm. The first three years will be very hard. After this stage, you can make a lot of money. Is this correct?" Tian Xin blinked her big eyes and looked at Fang Yi, waiting for his answer.

Fang Yi was startled. He thought Tian Xin would ask some very professional questions, but he didn't expect the other party to ask such a question.

"How should I put it? I heard someone say this when I was in college. The most difficult thing is the first three years of practice. But later I found out after practicing that this is not the case.

Some lawyers worked as salaried lawyers for seven or eight years in order to make ends meet. After seeing other lawyers making a lot of money, they wanted to go it alone. However, they found that everything had to be started from scratch (including case negotiation experience). They had no cases to handle, and they were hungry. Having a full meal means making no money at all.

There are also lawyers who choose to work alone from the beginning and make a lot of money within two or three years. I conclude that the key point is not the practice time, but the lawyer’s case source.

The source of the case will not come to you just because you are a lawyer, nor will they come to you just because you have been practicing law for five or six years and have done many cases and have some experience. In reality, you have been working for eight or nine years before you can become independent and solve your own problems. There are many lawyers who have food and clothing problems.

Therefore, I think that lawyers who have good case sources and good luck do not need to consider the length of practice. There are many people who can make a lot of money when they enter the industry. For those lawyers who have no resources and are not very lucky, what can they do even if they have been practicing for more than ten years? They have to worry about the source of the case every day. To put it more exaggeratedly, every year is the ‘first three years of practice’.

Most of what you said was said by an old lawyer, but times have changed, and the good advice from more than ten years ago may not be useful now. The market has changed, and now is no longer an era when you can make a lot of money just by completing your qualifications. "Fang Yi thought for a while and decided to tell this unexperienced colleague the truest situation.

"That's it!" Zhou Ying opened her mouth into an O shape and said in surprise.

"Hey! It seems that the legal industry we learned about in school is very different from the real legal industry." Tian Xin nodded.

“Lawyer Fang, which one makes more money, non-litigation business or litigation business, which one is more prestigious?

I often hear lawyers from our firm’s non-litigation team say that they are doing big projects and earning tens of millions in legal fees. Is non-litigation really that high-end? Why doesn’t the boss build a non-litigation team in our team? Zhou Ying glanced around and asked in a low voice.

"Whether our team should build a non-litigation team or not, I can't say much. But which one is more profitable and which one is more prestigious, non-litigation or litigation, I really can't say.

You see, the non-litigation team can make millions, or even tens of millions, by doing an IPO project, but you know, the legal fees for litigation cases can also be millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions. For a simple debt litigation case, the lawyer is fully risk-based, and there are many cases where the lawyer's fee exceeds tens of millions.

So which type of business is more profitable and more advanced, I really can’t say, but if you want to enter the industry and want to do non-litigation business, I suggest you do litigation business for a few years first, get more exposure to negative information in society, and have a better understanding. If you don't file a lawsuit until the nature of the risk is known, you may get twice the result with half the effort. "

"Lawyer Fang, do you think relationships or professional abilities are more important? For lawyers," Zhou Ying asked. Tian Xin also looked at Fang Yi with wide eyes.

Fang Yi smiled and thought to himself: Why do these two little guys have so many problems! Ten million whys!

"It's not appropriate to use other people as examples, so I will speak from my own experience. I am a PhD in criminal law from the National Law University. In terms of criminal law theory, I think I should be among the top ten in our institute. In terms of professional ability, I think my Past cases are already very illustrative.

But I am still on the boss's team. Although I am not a salaried lawyer, I am at least making a living from the cases in the firm. This is a fact. From time to time, my old customers and connections will introduce some business to me.

So I think professional skills and relationships are both important. Professional ability can support you in taking on cases and make clients trust you, and relationships can help you attract more cases. The two are complementary and cannot exist without the other.

Don’t think that you can make a lot of money just because you have great professional skills or great connections. This is extremely unscientific. Professional ability and connections are like the two legs of a lawyer. If something goes wrong, the lawyer will feel uncomfortable.

This is why a good lawyer is a social activist. "Fang Yi explained.

"Okay, it's getting late. If you ask any more questions, I'll charge you a consultation fee!" Fang Yi joked.

Zhou Ying and Tian Xin laughed sheepishly.

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