Lawyer

Chapter 300 Gu Datong

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

They were greeted by a male lawyer wearing glasses, in his thirties.According to his self-introduction, his surname is Feng, and he is the assistant to the director of Wankefa. This assistant is not a legal assistant in the ordinary sense, but has management authority. It is equivalent to the position of the assistant to the president in the company. Internal management and coordination.

"Let me first introduce the situation and treatment of the team. Lawyer Wan's team consists of 38 lawyers and ten paralegals.

Our team is mainly divided into two departments, the Legal Counsel Department and the Litigation Department.

The Legal Counsel Department currently has 25 lawyers and eight paralegals.Legal advisors include five banks and other financial institutions, twelve large construction companies, including eight Chinese and state-owned enterprises, and the rest are private enterprises.In addition, there are [-] medium-sized private enterprises and [-] government agencies.Mainly in the service of legal counsel units.There is basic salary and commission.

The litigation department has [-] lawyers and two paralegals. The paralegals are mainly responsible for preparing entrustment procedures and copying for lawyers, as well as confirming the daily assignment of cases.Lawyers in the litigation department do not have a basic salary, and there are commissions for handling cases in the firm, [-]% to [-]%, and [-]% to lawyers. Except for individual tax and social security, no other fees are deducted.Individual cases are distributed in a ratio of [-] to [-], and lawyers are allocated [-]%. Except for personal tax and social security, no other expenses need to be deducted.

At the end of this year, five lawyers will switch 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 transfer over, so after the evaluation, three of you lawyers will join our team, and it will be enough for us to recruit two more lawyers to fill in the vacancies.

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

"Assistant Feng, may I ask, there are [-] lawyers in the Litigation Department, is their workload saturated?" Xie Youhe asked.

"According to last year's statistics, the average number of cases allocated in the firm is no problem for each litigator to have two cases per month. Of course, some cases are explicitly requested by the client to be handled by a certain lawyer, so such cases cannot be handled. assigned to other lawyers.

In addition, our team's case fees start at a minimum of 1 yuan, and if it is a case in another province, the lawyer's fee starts at 1 yuan.Of course, the attorney fees for related cases may be relatively low, but the amount is not large, and the team will settle the settlement for the lawyer handling the case at a minimum of [-] yuan. "Assistant Feng said.

"Then how did you assign the cases? Was it random, or..." Xie Youhe asked the question Fang Yi wanted to ask.

Although the division of cases seems to be very simple, 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 ability of lawyers, but in practice, most of them leave the heavy work to themselves or their friends or stakeholders. Many lawyers in the team handle more than 100 cases a year, and no one handles three cases. This is the reason why the five cases earned more.

After all, those who can be lawyers are not fools. Even if they can’t see it in a short time, they will definitely find out after a long time. Either they will transfer to another firm or transfer to another team to practice, and the team will gradually disband.So this question is still very important.

"Except for the cases that the client requests a lawyer to handle by name, we will put the relevant information in the large group of the litigation department for other cases, and the lawyers will claim it by themselves. Of course, it is better to be quick than to be slow.

Our paralegals will prepare all the procedures after confirming the contracting lawyer.Under the principle of more pay for more work, we have also set a limit for litigation lawyers, and no more than three cases can be claimed each month. There is an exception here, and the cases designated by the team leader are not counted.

Of course, if you get a case but find that you can’t do it alone, you can cooperate with other lawyers, or you can transfer it to other lawyers, but the distribution of the commission must be negotiated by the lawyers themselves, and the team does not care.

However, if you claim the case but cannot do it, you have to return it. That will deduct the commission, so you should be cautious when claiming the case.During the process of handling a case, if the lawyer is complained by the client, if it is found that the lawyer has made mistakes or negligence, the commission will also be withheld.

In addition, the case of the team should not cooperate with lawyers outside the team, which is a principle. "Assistant Feng said.

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

These two issues are also very important. If the lawyer in charge of the case is inexperienced, it is easy to cause the signed case to be unable to be handled, or it is very difficult to do, which will lead to complaints.What's more, in order to sign the bill and get a commission, they will pat their chests, which eventually leads to the inability of the lawyer and the client to communicate, and eventually refunds.

Another question, who is responsible for distributing case information, is also more sensitive, because the person distributing case information will learn about the case as soon as possible, and may notify a lawyer with an interest to seize the case in time.Fortunately, a lawyer can only handle up to three lawsuits in the firm a month, which can offset the risk in this regard. Even so, Fang Yi still wants to know who will be responsible for the distribution of cases.

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

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

The second question is who will release case information.This work is in charge of another lawyer assistant named Li of Lawyer Wan. This person is notoriously rigid in the team, and it doesn't matter who speaks on matters of principle. He is not a lawyer. "Assistant Feng said.

The three of Fang Yi glanced at each other. This method of assigning cases is more interesting. Although it is not perfect, it can reduce the risk a lot.

Then Wang Deyou asked a few 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 case counseling department, and lawyers in the legal counseling department. There is only one position for lawyers in the legal counseling department, two positions for case lawyers, and more positions for litigation lawyers.

Lawyer Gu has given us your information before, and our evaluation work will be carried out tomorrow. However, as a condition for Lawyer 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 the next department first. "Assistant Feng said.

It wasn't until this time that Fang Yi realized that it turned out that the three of them joined Wanhua United Law Firm as a condition for Lawyer Gu's non-litigation team to be merged into the team of the law firm. In other words, the three of them were accessories.Thinking of this, Fang Yi couldn't help feeling a little hot on his face.But Gu Datong is still very affectionate, at least he didn't abandon everyone.

(End of this chapter)