Lawyer's character

"Hello, are you Lawyer Fang? I am the eldest brother of Zhang Fengqin (Li Shuming's wife), and my name is Zhang Fengcai." A man's voice came from the mobile phone microphone.

"Hello, I'm Fang Yi. Li Shuming told me about your family yesterday. Do you want to come over today?" Fang Yi asked.

"Is it convenient for you? If it is convenient, I will come to the law firm to see you later." Zhang Fengcai said.

"Come on." After Fang Yi told the other party the location of the law firm, he hung up the phone.

Zhang Fengcai is a tall, bald man in his fifties, with a hint of cunning and stubbornness in his eyes. It is said that he was the vice-president of a local university and would retire after three more years.

His university has a law school, and there are quite a few professors and associate professors working part-time at outside law firms. He still knows a little about the teachers at his school, and the people who surround him all day are all flattering guys in name only, with no professional ability. Unreliable.

The teacher who is really capable is aloof and arrogant, and seems to be distant from him. After all, his family's affairs were not a good thing, and he was a face-conscious person, so he did not ask a teacher from his school to represent his son's case.

When his mother heard that her grandson had been arrested, she became very anxious and asked him to contact his sister Zhang Fengqin who was far away abroad. The old lady asked her daughter Zhang Fengqin to find a way to save people. Then Zhang Fengqin called Li Shuming and asked Fang Yi for help.

Before, after receiving a call from Li Shuming, he specifically logged into the website of Wanhua United Law Firm and checked Xia Yi's introduction. From a leader's perspective, he was very satisfied with Fang Yi's professional abilities.

Forty minutes later, in the law firm conference room, Fang Yi listened carefully to Zhang Fengcai's story.

"After my son Zhang Wen graduated from university, he first worked in a foreign-funded enterprise, and later he applied for a job in this Sino-foreign joint venture as the general manager of the sales department." Zhang Fengcai's eyes flashed with pride when he mentioned the past.

"Mr. Zhang, do you know what your son's crime is?" Fang Yi asked.

When it came to his son's arrest, Zhang Fengcai's eyes dimmed a lot: "The public security agency called me a few days ago and said that he was suspected of illegally operating similar businesses. I don't know much about the specific situation, so I can't tell you the details. . I speculate that it may be related to the company he opened."

"He has his own company?" Fang Yi asked.

"Well, it's not his name. He registered the company in the names of my wife and his mother-in-law. He wanted to use my name at first, but I was the vice president of the university and couldn't register it, so he used his mother's name instead. .I only know this." Zhang Fengcai said.

"Well, where is his lover? Do you understand the situation?" Fang Yi asked.

"Hey, don't mention it. His wife is an executive of a foreign company and is busier than him. A month before my son was arrested, she was sent to study abroad by the company and it will take half a year to come back. The couple kept yelling about it all day long. I have a career now and don’t want children, but this time is good, one was sent abroad, the other was arrested..." Zhang Fengcai felt depressed when he mentioned this matter.

"Well, if you trust me, I will go to the detention center to meet you first and ask about the specific situation, and then we will talk about the rest. What do you think?" Fang Yi said.

"How can I pay you for this? How much does it cost?" Zhang Fengcai asked.

No matter who is hired to defend his son, he will not be able to save money, and he understands this. It is impossible for the middle-aged lawyer in front of him to be exempted from legal fees just because he is Li Shuming's uncle. What's more, the relationship between him and Li Shuming has never been very good. Zhang Fengcai still knows this.

"There are two charging methods. One is that you entrust your son's case to me from the time he was arrested by the public security organs to the first-instance verdict, and you pay all the legal fees in one go.

The other is to charge by stage. For example, your son's case is currently in the investigation stage. I will go to the detention center to meet with you to understand the case, answer your son's legal questions, and apply for bail pending trial. One interview charges 5,000 yuan. If you need to be released on bail pending trial, I will charge you again. Add three thousand yuan. When it comes to the prosecutorial office review and prosecution stage and the court trial stage, you will have to pay the attorney fees separately. "Fang Yi explained.

"Why don't you go to the detention center to meet me first, and I will pay your legal fees according to the stages." Zhang Fengcai thought for a while and said.

He thought about paying all the legal fees in one go. If he was dissatisfied and wanted to change lawyers later, he would not be able to get the money back.

"No problem, please wait a moment, I will ask the assistant to prepare the entrustment procedures." Fang Yi said. Then he called Zhou Ying to prepare for the entrustment procedures.

When Fang Yi went upstairs just now, Zhou Ying was helping Huang Yuanchao copy materials, so Fang Yi didn't ask her to come up to discuss the case. Twenty minutes later, Zhou Ying went upstairs to assist Zhang Fengcai in signing the entrustment procedures and paid 8,000 yuan in legal fees.

Early the next morning, Zhou Ying followed Fang Yi to the detention center to meet Zhang Wen.

Zhang Wen is thirty-one years old, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, is thin, but has a beer belly that is disproportionate to his body shape. He looks like a pregnant woman who is five or six months pregnant. I guess it would be difficult for him to tie his shoelaces while bending down. His face looks a lot like Zhang Fengcai's, but a little more slippery and worldly.

Maybe he has been in society for a long time and has seen a lot of people. His condition is still good, his mentality is not broken, but he seems a little anxious.

"Zhang Wen, do you know the charges the public security authorities have charged you with?" Fang Yi asked.

"I know, they told me that it's a crime to illegally operate similar businesses." Zhang Wen nodded.

"Please tell us what you told the public security organs again. We need to know what happened. The more details, the better." Fang Yi said.

"Well, I have been working in this joint venture for more than six years, from a member of the sales team to the manager of the sales department..." Zhang Wen recounted the incident.

The company Zhang Wen works for is a Sino-foreign joint venture. The Chinese party and the foreign party each invest 50% and are engaged in the production and sales of automobiles and their parts.

Three years ago, Zhang Wen was promoted to deputy department manager because of his outstanding performance. Since then, he has exceeded the sales target every year. After the sales manager retired early last year, he was hired by the company as a sales manager to be in charge of the company's sales and after-sales services.

He has been doing sales work in the company for many years and knows the company's downstream customers very well. After he took power, he only thought about relying on the mountains and the mountains to rely on sales to eat sales.

After serving as the sales manager, Zhang Wen registered Wanjia Sales Company in the names of his mother and mother-in-law. Later, under his instruction, Wanjia Sales Company became the authorized dealer of the joint venture, specializing in selling the joint venture's auto parts.

In order to increase the income of Wanjia Sales Company, Zhang Wen privately contacted many customers of the joint venture company and asked them to order the joint venture's auto parts through Wanjia Sales Company and give them a certain rebate. Driven by interests, the customer reached an agreement with Zhang Wen.