Chapter 491: America's Lawyers
People just stroll around the streets, feeling the very modern atmosphere, and sometimes meet some men and women who are very luxuriously dressed, obviously they are likely to be Hollywood movie stars, of course, even if these people stand at the top of today's world pop culture, in Liu Lang's eyes, it is also very earthy, no matter how fashionable the clothes of this era are, they cannot be compared with thirty years later, it can be said that after thirty years, even China's "rural people" will wear more fashion than these movie stars.
After a while, several people turned into an alley, and on the side of the alley there was a shop with the words Lin's Legal Consulting Company, which was the law firm opened by the Lin family in the United States.
There are more law firms in the U.S. than any other store, and Americans can skip buying some goods, but they can't leave a lawyer.
In the eyes of many Chinese, lawyers are just a profession in litigation, but lawyers in the United States only have this "function", such as applying for green cards, office citizens, immigration, etc., are entrusted to lawyers, because only lawyers are qualified to submit the information of each person to the government department.
Lin Zequan once told Liu Lang that there are as many as one million lawyers in the United States today, accounting for 40 percent of the entire world, and why are there so many? This is inseparable from the principle of the rule of law in the United States, and at the same time, because there are so many kinds of laws that even the most famous lawyers cannot master all the laws, and can only rely on a large number of people to master these legal provisions.
In addition, the law of the United States is based on case law, and the sources of various precedents are as vast as the stars, and non-professionals are completely blind, and professionals who have not been in contact with it are also blind, so the threshold for lawyers under this system is relatively much higher, and the decision on the outcome of judgments is more dependent on the ability of lawyers, and their income is also very high.
Although they are all lawyers, there are also eight categories of lawyers.
First of all, private lawyers, accounting for the majority of all lawyers, and the vast number of American lawyers in the eyes of outsiders mainly refers to private lawyers in the United States.
Then there are the parliamentarians and their assistants, who mainly serve the parliamentarians, such as submitting draft laws to the National Assembly for investigation, hearings, arguments and recommendations, and then sending them for discussion and voting, all of which are prepared and coordinated by lawyers.
Judges and assistants, as the name suggests, are assistants to judges in the United States, and there are more than 1,000 judges in the United States, such as judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, judges of the Federal District Court, and judges of state courts, each of whom has to be equipped with multiple lawyers.
Government lawyers, there are ninety-four federal districts in the United States, and the prosecutors in each district are government lawyers appointed by the president. Similarly, there are government lawyers in various government agencies.
Corporate lawyers, major companies in the United States have their own legal departments, and they only serve major companies.
Civil rights lawyers, there are a group of lawyers in the United States who specialize in serving blacks and other ethnic minorities, women, people with disabilities and other people, all kinds of people and vulnerable groups who are discriminated against, called civil rights lawyers, mainly by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Federal Department of Justice.
Part-time lawyers, who are mainly active in the field of legal education.
Pro Bono lawyer. These lawyers are mainly engaged in legal aid, environmental protection, and public interest legal services. This group of lawyers accounts for all lawyers in the United States.
There are so many types of lawyers alone, which is enough to see how popular lawyers are in the United States.
Lin Zequan is a lawyer himself, but he also thinks that there are too many lawyers in the United States, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as many, but does the United States really need so many lawyers?
Lin Zequan studied law in the United States, and for Americans, on the one hand, they scolded lawyers, and on the other hand, they couldn't do without lawyers. Even if you want to "kill all the lawyers", you have to hire a lawyer to represent and argue how to kill, when to kill, who to kill first, what to do after killing, and a series of other questions, which ultimately prove that they are still inseparable from lawyers, and they don't seem to have thought about life without lawyers.
In fact, the political life, economic life and even daily life of the United States have told us that the United States not only needs so many lawyers, but also needs so many lawyers, because the United States is a country designed by lawyers, founded by lawyers, and later unified by lawyers, so it is led by lawyers.
More than 200 years ago, when the United States was founded, a total of 52 people signed the "Declaration of Independence," 25 of whom were lawyers, and when the US Constitution was formulated, a total of 55 delegates participated in the Constitutional Convention, of which 31 were lawyers, including the most influential representatives of the time, such as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Webster, and so on.
In addition, in the more than 200-year history of the United States, more than half of the members of Congress, and more than 70% of the president, vice presidents, and cabinet members have been lawyers. It can be said that lawyers have changed the United States, lawyers have made the United States, and lawyers have perfected the United States.
In the United States, no matter how many people there are, lawyers are needed, no matter how many people hate them, lawyers are necessary, and even if they can't be presidents or governors, lawyers are important. Because, in the United States, lawyers are not just a profession, not just a profession, not just a group, not just a class, but a strength, a culture, and a symbol.
In Liu Lang's eyes, most lawyers mean that the country's legal system is very perfect, and the dignity and power of the law are reflected everywhere, and this kind of society is the closest to the legal society.
Of course, the legal system in the United States also has limitations, at least you have to be able to afford to hire a lawyer to help you fight a lawsuit, and many poor people need the state to help them even eat, where do they have the money to hire a lawyer?
The Lin family's law firm provides legal services to the rich, and it has also taken on some jobs for more than a year since its establishment, and has fought lawsuits for some Hollywood third- and fourth-tier starlets, with a very high winning rate and a small amount of money.
The most important business of the Lin family's firm is Liu Lang's Shengtang and Huo Tianting's company, mainly Liu Lang's Shengtang culture, because anyone can see that the future of Shengtang culture is immeasurable, and it can even wrestle with Marvel.
As long as you can break into the upper class of the United States, the wealth will continue to roll in.
Everyone walked into the law firm, and there were two white staff members inside, and when they saw Lin Zequan walking in, they hurriedly stood up and said hello.
There are four staff members in Lin's firm, in addition to Lin Zequan, there is also his sister Lin Liwan, both of whom are graduates of famous universities in the United States, and there is no problem in terms of professional knowledge, and there is also a young white lawyer named Okafor, three of them are lawyers, and the remaining one is a service person, even if this service person is also a law graduate, he is usually responsible for collecting some information.