Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 105
10:5 am.On the giant electronic screen in the plaza next to Ginza in Tokyo, an advertisement was originally displayed, but with a flicker of the screen, it suddenly switched to the broadcast content of Asahi Shimbun.A dignified-looking hostess in a light pink suit jacket kept looking down at the manuscript in her hand, as if it was due to the sudden addition of the manuscript, and said nervously with some unfamiliarity:

"The latest news. The latest news. Just over half an hour ago, Eto Law Firm held a press conference to announce the initiation of a class action against the Kawamoto Expressway. According to reports from on-site reporters, the cause of the class action was the maintenance of the Kawamoto Expressway. Systematic flaws. The lawyers involved claimed that the data they collected showed that the accident rate and accident death rate of the highways under the Chuanben Expressway were significantly higher than those of other highway companies.”

"According to their claims, more than [-] copies of the traffic accident responsibility statements in the past three years alone mentioned that there were road obstacles that were not cleaned up in time on the highways under the Kawamoto Expressway."

The hostess lowered her head slightly, and continued to scan down the manuscript, but at the moment of scanning down, she seemed to be half shocked by the content of the manuscript, and her standard voice, which was always full of professionalism, also trembled.

"That is to say. The group lawsuit initiated by Eto Law Firm this time may theoretically reach 7 people. Even if the prosecution rate is 25%, the number of lawsuits has reached an astonishing 1 people. This The number is currently second only to the past Niigata Minamata disease lawsuit, pain disease lawsuit, asthma lawsuit and Kumamoto Minamata disease lawsuit, the four major public nuisance lawsuits!"

Hearing the huge number of lawsuits, many of the busy commuters outside the Ginza stopped on the sidewalk to watch the news on the screen.

"As of now, the stock price of Kawamoto Expressway has fallen by 11%!" The hostess raised her head and ended the last sentence of the news broadcast.

The group lawsuit against Kawamoto Expressway may become the fifth largest group lawsuit in the history of Toyo, and the news immediately shot up like a rocket, attracting the attention of the public.First of all, what triggered the explosive discussion was the Toyogu Bar of Kawamoto Expressway, a gathering place for retail investors in the stock market.At this time, the retail investors of Kawamoto Expressway were startled. It turned out that the announcement of a major lawsuit that day turned out to be the whistling wind on the eve of the storm.However, when they came back to their senses, retail investors found that they had already been deeply trapped.

It turns out that everything has already been traced.

In the streets and alleys, no matter at noon, at night, or at supper time, there are fast food restaurants, izakayas, and snack bars there. A large number of people are discussing the class action of the Kawamoto Expressway loudly while eating.People who have experienced the four major public nuisance lawsuits recalled those days when public opinion, pressure groups, journalists, and courts clashed with each other.

As night fell, the sun rose slowly.

After September 9, law firms in various parts of the East were almost bombarded with phone calls.The phone rang continuously, one after another.As soon as you pick up the phone, you can hear similar inquiries, "Hello! Is this a law firm? I am the driver who was involved in an accident on the Kawamoto Expressway. Can I participate in the lawsuit against the Kawamoto Expressway?"

Specialized lawyers who usually deal with traffic accidents suddenly experienced a surge in business volume.At first they didn't understand what was going on, until the moment they saw the news, they didn't understand what happened.

"It's done, it's done."

"I didn't expect to make a fortune doing traffic accident cases."

"every dog ​​has his day!"

"You should thank that lawyer named Beiyuan."

The leading law firm with a keen sense of smell had already seen the extremely huge opportunities contained in this class action through the news that day.Including the so-called 1000-meter club law firms, 500-meter club law firms, and 200-meter club law firms in Tokyo.These high-ranking law firms exuding a strong sense of elitism are also starting to compete for a small traffic accident case at this moment.

Usually—the traffic accident case, which is almost regarded as the lowest level of legal business, after Beiyuan announced the filing of a group lawsuit, it seems to have become shining gold. Every law firm in Dongyang is scrambling The driver who was involved in an accident on a highway under the Kawamoto Expressway.

At the same time, other law firms were also caught up in the news, secretly launching investigations on other expressway companies.

……

A few days later, Tokyo, Minato District, Toranomon-Kumori Building.

Standing in the law firm, Onoda couldn't believe the scene in front of him.The phones in the law firm rang one after another, and almost all the lawyers in the office grid were busy answering the calls that rang almost every five minutes.

And all of this was because of that little traffic accident.

In Onoda's mind, legal affairs are divided into high-end and low-end.The traffic accident case obviously belongs to that kind of low-end case.This kind of case is completely incomparable with the listed company transaction cases such as investment and financing, mergers and acquisitions that he is engaged in every day at Jinxi Law Firm.

However, what happened in the past few days has completely destroyed his past cognition.

Now, those "high-end" law firms are scrambling to grab every traffic case that has an accident on the highway.

Yes, those high-end law firms that seem to be high and unattainable are also bending down to compete for these cases that they don't usually look down on.

But this somewhat absurd and ironic scene all came from two months ago, when the director of the law firm Imamishi threw the case to Beiyuan to humiliate him.I still vaguely remember the scene of deliberately shaking the dossier materials to the ground to ridicule Beiyuan.

Think about the scene at that time.

Think about the current scene again.

Watching the news of the group lawsuit, Onoda's heart trembled suddenly, feeling a little stunned, as if none of this was real.

At the front desk of the law firm in the distance, because there were too many court response materials to be mailed, the administrative staff was busy, and several low-level lawyers were also transferred there.Boxes of materials were placed in a mess at the front desk, almost blocking the entrance to the law firm.No way, they really never thought that one day the law firm would suddenly need to prepare such a huge amount of materials.And these boxes and boxes of materials will be sent to the Shinjuku District Court.

……

Shinjuku City District Court, Trial Building.

In the magistrate's office, executive judge Kobayakawa was leisurely sipping black tea, crossing his legs, and flipping through a book from time to time.His annual leave has been approved.Regarding the seizure of Beiyuan, he had already decided to hand it over to his subordinates.As for the progress and whether it was sealed, Kobayakawa didn't care. He had already decided that he couldn't waste a second of his life on such poor people.

So what if it is sealed up, so what if it is not sealed up?

Anyway, Beiyuan had already lost.

My previous structure is still small.

The pattern should be enlarged.

In the magnified structure, people like Bei Yuan should not occupy a position that consumes their own minds
I am taking annual leave this time, and I plan to go to Kansai to have fun, to travel well, and to wash away the ominous atmosphere brought about by being close to that poor ghost.

hateful!

Why do I still think about him in my mind! !

Kobayakawa quickly took a sip of black tea to calm himself down.

Suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the corridor, but it was a judge's assistant running over in a hurry, stopped at the door, and said anxiously: "Judge Kobayakawa, the dean just canceled your previous annual leave. And during this time , you have to be temporarily transferred to the case-filing court to assist. The workload of the case-filing court is too heavy recently."

Cancel the annual leave, and be temporarily seconded to the filing court? !

what happened? !
Kobayakawa's eyebrows trembled, and his face was like a carpet, and he pulled it down long, "Take me to the case filing court. How could the workload be too much? Those people in the case filing court are living for nothing?! I'll go back and talk to the dean myself. The annual leave has been booked, so how can I just say no."

Footsteps sounded.

With a depressed feeling and an unbelievable expression, Kobayakawa took the elevator from the office upstairs to the case filing court at the bottom.

But in front of him, a mountain of files piled up in the case filing court, almost like a tide flooding the people in the office.However, what is even more frightening is that the postal vehicles outside are still coming one by one, and materials are constantly being moved out of it.Box after box has almost piled up from the office of the filing court to the litigation service hall of the court.

"Why...why did someone come to file a case? What happened?" Kobayakawa looked at so many materials, he was a little afraid to believe it.These accumulated materials alone are likely to exceed the amount of cases filed by the Shinjuku District District Court in a year.

"Judge Kobayakawa, don't you know yet? Someone filed a class action lawsuit against Kawamoto Expressway. The defendants of these materials are all Kawamoto Expressway."

"Who mentioned it?"

"A lawyer named Yoshiichi Kitahara."

The moment the name sounded, it seemed as if the surrounding noises stopped and it became the world in a silent film.The people in the filing court were anxiously busy, and there was only one executive judge who was completely stunned standing outside the door.

Kitahara!

Unexpectedly... It's Beiyuan again! ! !
(End of this chapter)