Lawyer Lai Keming: From judge assistant to law firm partner, the harder you work, the luckier you are.
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2021.03.15
He has been engaged in legal work for more than ten years. He once worked in a basic court in Shenzhen as a judge's assistant. After that, he transformed into the legal profession. After seven years of steady progress, he was promoted from an intern lawyer to a partner step by step, and his practice speech was interpreted with outstanding strength-the harder you work, the luckier you are! This issue of the Youth Star column takes you into the legal story of lawyer Lai Keming.
01 From Judge Assistant to Litigator
"I like the profession of lawyer, both in terms of professional image and work content. I also feel that I am more suitable to be a lawyer. I like and fit for it is the reason why I choose the profession of lawyer."
In September 2013, based on his own interests and career planning, lawyer Lai Keming resigned from a basic court in Shenzhen and joined Guo Chaohui and Mao Peng's economic crime defense team. He has been working in the team since he was a trainee lawyer to a formal practice.
The work experience of the court has had a profound impact on lawyer Lai Keming's life values and work thinking. After entering the challenging profession of lawyers, Lai Keming's quick breakthrough method is the transformation and construction of thinking.
At the beginning of the internship, the thinking inertia brought about by many years of court work made Lawyer Lai Keming inevitably fall into the "right and wrong" thinking mode when dealing with related issues. After communicating with his guidance teacher, lawyer Mao Peng, senior partner of Shengdian, lawyer Mao Peng pointed out: the client did not find us to make a judgment, but hoped that we would find a way to solve the problem.
In the later practice process, lawyer Lai Keming gradually realized that: first of all, we should deeply understand the real needs and expectations of the clients, and secondly, we should provide constructive opinions for the clients according to the actual situation of the case. For customers, the real need does not necessarily lie in the outcome of the lawsuit.
According to lawyer Lai Keming, winning a lawsuit may not really win, and losing is not really losing. The key lies in whether it can meet the real needs and expectations of customers. Of course, the needs and expectations put forward by clients are not static, and sometimes the guidance of lawyers is needed to help clients determine their real needs and reasonable expectations.
During the work of the court, the court leader once said to lawyer Lai Keming: "first learn what fairness and justice is in the court before you can go out to be a lawyer." This sentence Lai Keming lawyer has been in mind.
At the beginning of his practice, lawyer Lai Keming handled a case of adjacent rights dispute. Due to the client's financial difficulties, lawyer Guo Chaohui, senior partner of Shengdian, agreed to provide legal aid to the client.
The case is relatively common, but what impressed lawyer Lai Keming was that after the client received financial compensation, the couple made a special trip to Shengdian Law Firm to present lawyers Guo Chaohui and Lai Keming with the banner of "defending justice, safeguarding fairness, quality service and relieving people's worries" to show their gratitude.
Although it is the business of a lawyer to collect legal fees for handling cases, the sense of professional achievement brought about by pursuing dreams of fairness and justice, being entrusted by others, and being loyal to others is the most beautiful scenery on the lawyer's career path.
02 The Growth Path of Young Partners
Determining the direction and field of practice is the only way for lawyers to succeed. After formal practice, based on the consideration of his field of expertise, lawyer Lai Keming focused on litigation business from the beginning. He said: "Economic crime criminal defense and major civil and commercial dispute resolution are more suitable for me."
Zhang Sizhi, a Chinese barrister, once described a good lawyer as "the wisdom of a philosopher, the passion of a poet, the quality of a jurist and the position of a politician, which are unified in scientific mission, professional conscience and social justice."
According to lawyer Lai Keming, what Zhang Sizhi said is the excellent quality that a litigator should possess, and it is also a guide for learning and practice. From his experience, reliability is the foundation of a lawyer's foothold. A client once affirmed lawyer Lai Keming with "you are one of the nobles in my life.
This comes from a client who has provided legal aid to Lai Keming. It happened in early 2020, the client tried his best to start a business for the last time, but there was a dispute with the contractor over the quality of the pavement decoration construction and the amount of work.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, coinciding with the outbreak of the epidemic, the shop for several months basically no income, in order to pay the wages of employees he even sold the property, but also was sued by the contractor to pay more than the contract expectations of the project. Later, he approached Lai Keming's lawyer for help, and finally the court's decision rejected most of the other party's claim.
With continuous professional improvement, lawyer Lai Keming, who has been in law for 7 years, has been recognized by more and more clients. His legal adviser who has served for many years has consulted and attached great importance to his legal opinions on many business matters. He has repeatedly said, "lawyer Lai, I don't need to read the documents you have read."
Thanks to Shengdian's team-based operation mode, Lai Keming's team has given full play to the role of senior lawyers in helping young lawyers. Members share and learn successful experiences from each other. In just a few years, Lai Keming's lawyer's strength has advanced by leaps and bounds and has rapidly transformed into an independent litigation lawyer.
Relying on team resources, business development is also assisted. For clients, a strong team of lawyers to provide legal services for them is a manifestation of paying enough attention to their entrustment matters, and it is also a confidence guarantee for them to pay the corresponding lawyer fees. In recent years, Lawyer Lai Keming has accumulated more representative cases in the field of criminal defense and major civil and commercial dispute resolution.
Criminal Defense: Wang Moumou, Dong Mi of a listed company, was suspected of tax evasion (involving more than 1000 million yuan), and the procuratorate finally dealt with it without prosecution;
Shenzhen XXX Internet Financial Services Co., Ltd. Zhao Mou was suspected of fund-raising fraud (the amount involved was 0.2 billion yuan), and the procuratorate finally dealt with it without prosecution;
Fang Moumou was suspected of fraud (the amount involved was nearly 10 million), and the public security organ finally withdrew the case after being released on bail pending trial;
Guangdong XX Electronics Co., Ltd. XXX was suspected of obtaining loans by fraud (the amount involved was 14 million yuan). In the end, the court only sentenced him to fixed-term imprisonment of one year and six months, suspended for two years.
Civil and commercial dispute resolution: after the failure of the partnership investment, he was sued to return more than 2000 million yuan of unjust enrichment disputes, assisted Huang in collecting and sorting out evidence, actively responding to the lawsuit, and finally the second-level court rejected all the other party's claims;
In a divorce dispute lawsuit, assist the client to complete the division of the joint property of husband and wife with a value of up to 0.2 billion yuan involving shares, stocks, 11 real estate in many parts of the country and multiple parking spaces;
In the case of a dispute over the contract for the sale and purchase of one house and two sales involving the intersection of criminal citizens, he assisted Guo in formulating a rights protection plan. Starting from the maximum recovery of losses, he successfully filed a lawsuit on behalf of Guo for nearly 50 million yuan.
In addition to his own work, lawyer Lai Keming often takes part in media activities. He has been interviewed by Shenzhen TV Station's legal space-time column on issues related to the newly revised and implemented "Shenzhen School Safety Management Regulations". He has been interviewed by Southern Metropolis Daily on hot spots in cities such as the cancellation of private orders received by Shenzhen school canteen contractors, the absconding phenomenon of prepaid consumption by members of beauty salons and gymnasiums, and the legal basis of Shenzhen roadside parking penalties, and other hot spots, and the legal basis, and so on.
03 Be modest and frank, the harder you work, the luckier you are.
"If you use three words to describe yourself, which three would you use?" Faced with this question, Lawyer Lai Keming's answer is "I don't know". He joked: "Some people said I was handsome before, but I really believed it, and now I don't believe it." In the matter of knowing himself, his attitude is modest and rational. He does not label himself, but defines himself too early.
He shared a passage from Krishnamurti's book "Re-know Yourself": "In fact, life is entirely made up of relationships. I can only observe myself in the network of relationships. It is useless to sit in a corner and meditate. I cannot live alone, I can only live in a relationship with external people, things and concepts, so by observing my relationship with external people, things and inner activities, I begin to know myself. In addition, any form of understanding is just abstract thinking."
Lawyer Lai Keming believes that industry is good at diligence and waste in play, and it is destroyed by thinking. He treats work and life with a positive and serious attitude, and work and life will also give back. In his career, the promotion of partner is the affirmation of Sheng Dian, encouraging him to go forward bravely and further. He also took the initiative in love. With the help of Shengdian's partners, he and his partner who loved him at first sight finally got married. He said this was his greatest luck.
Outside of work, lawyer Lai Keming likes to travel. One of his most impressive trips was a trip to Yunnan in 2014. At that time, he was still an intern lawyer. He took a seven-day National Day holiday plus a week's leave of absence. He packed his backpack to the colorful Yunnan. Along the way, he met many warm and kind people. He could completely release himself without any pressure. After his formal practice, he could hardly find this feeling and missed it very much.
During the interview, when talking about popular legal dramas, lawyer Lai Keming said that many clients are affected by TV dramas and do not understand the real situation of domestic lawyers' work. Compared with the laymen of the general public, he has a more thorough professional understanding as a practitioner.
Like the big domestic drama "Elite Lawyer", lawyer Lai Keming said that apart from the exaggerated roles such as the unforgettable paralegal and the omnipotent Lina, the drama can still see the shadow of the real work of lawyers in reality, such as endless overtime writing materials, court meetings and client consultation. In addition, Jin Dong's own strong aura, adherence to justice and flexible way of thinking to solve problems in the play should be possessed by excellent lawyers.
Lawyer Lai Keming also recommend the American TV series "Devil's Spokesman". The hero of the play (Keanu Reeves) is a young lawyer who has never failed in a small city. He was invited by a well-known law firm in new york to take his wife to new york for development on the generous terms of a high-paying mansion. The dilemma between career and family, the temptation of fame and gain and moral conscience has been staged one after another.
