Li Yixuan was so angry that he dropped the phone, Liang Ning has been in the United States for many years, and it is difficult to see that this is FOMO deliberately instigating, providing regular legal services for enterprises is the most common income of law firms, but this generally does not make a lot of money, and the real money is to fight lawsuits for enterprises, which is the bulk of the income. As long as the lawsuit is settled, the money will be spent.

Even giants like Ford, JPMorgan Chase, and Citibank can't afford such lawsuits.

Taking IBM as an example, it was investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust in the 70s, and in response to the appeal of the Department of Justice, the lawyer's fees for the lawsuit alone exceeded $1 billion every year, and the lawsuit was more than $10, which is more than $10 billion.

And that's not all, after Watson Jr.'s death, he published a biography in which he described the most thrilling moment of IBM's response to the antitrust investigation, spending more than $3 billion in legal fees in just three months, and more than $1 billion a month. In such a situation, there have been five anti-monopoly lawsuits in ten years. In the end, in response to the lawsuit, IBM spent a total of more than $18 billion in ten years.

This is the dollar of the 70s and 80s, and the value of the dollar in later generations is more than 100 billion. It can be said that all of IBM's hard-earned money for decades has been contributed to lawyers.

Now, actually instigated Li Yixuan to go to court. Not to mention winning or losing, and no matter who is right or wrong, if a Hong Kong company fights a lawsuit with an American company, even if the evidence is ironclad, the US court will deliberately delay the judgment, first let you fall into the endless whirlpool of litigation costs, and when your money is exhausted, the lawsuit will finally be over.

This kind of thing, Li Yixuan didn't know how many times he had seen it in his previous life.

Such an unscrupulous lawyer must be punished, is Li Yixuan really a fool? Liang Ning can't be used either.

Thinking of this, Li Yixuan came to Zhang Guifang's office, called Guo Yifei by the way, and told the two of them the situation as it was.

"Mom, Liang Ning can't be used anymore, I don't know how much ecstasy soup FOMO poured into him, but he didn't stay awake in this incident, which means that this person is not of great use. Someone reliable must be sent to take his place, immediately. ”

Zhang Guifang immediately agreed: "Agree, replace it immediately." I think let Xia Jinyong go, anyway, the American branch is only responsible for sales tasks in the United States, and it does not involve R&D and production, and he is fully competent. And he went to college in San Francisco when he was younger, and he had no problem managing the American branch. ”

At this time, Guo Yifei said: "Isn't this too hasty, after all, he is reporting to you truthfully, and he didn't say that he wanted to file a lawsuit with microprointernational, but just said that FOMO suggested that we fight a lawsuit, and he just reported truthfully." ”

Li Yixuan didn't eat this, "Although he didn't say it, the eagerness between the lines of his words was enough to show that he was not up to the task." ”

Zhang Guifang couldn't bear it at this time, after all, Liang Ning was invited by her for a lot of money, if she removed him like this, she couldn't get over it on her own face, and other people in the company might be cold. So he said: "I think so, Liang Ning is not young, and his health has not been very good, give him a pension and let him retire early." ”

Li Yixuan thought about it, and his mother's face still had to be given, so he nodded and agreed.

Turning his head to look at Guo Yifei, he said: "I remember that there is a "Lawyers Law" in the United States......

Guo Yifei interrupted her directly, "I know what you have to say, in the United States, lawyers cannot take the initiative to file a lawsuit with their clients, let alone encourage their clients to file lawsuits." Instead, it is necessary to explain the truth and various consequences to the customer as it is, and let the customer decide whether to fight the lawsuit or not, let alone mislead the customer. ”

She looked at Li Yixuan and Zhang Guifang, "FOMO is a well-known American barrister firm, and the ethics of the industry are still credible, which should be done by some bad lawyers behind FOMO's back." ”

"How do you make me believe that?" Li Yixuan asked rhetorically.

"The United States, like Hong Kong, is a country with a law of the sea and uses case law. Under such a system, lawyers are divided into Dazhuang lawyers and firm lawyers. Da Zhuang lawyers do not deal with general affairs, but are specifically responsible for litigation; The firm's lawyers are not qualified to litigate. Encouraging clients to go to court, and it is a lawsuit that is destined to be won, is not good for FOMO, but will also affect the reputation of the firm. ”

Li Yixuan retorted: "Don't think I don't understand anything, yes, the lawyer of the firm can't directly fight a lawsuit, but if you want to fight a lawsuit, you can't go directly to Da Zhuang, you must go through the firm, and the firm can extract commissions." What's more, once the lawsuit starts, Da Zhuang will definitely need manpower, and the lawyer of the firm can just provide a lawyer as Da Zhuang's assistant, for the firm, this will be another income, am I right? ”

"Why do you doubt me?"

"It's not that I doubt you, but I doubt FOMO's professional ethics, but you've been favoring FOMO. As far as I know, U.S. firms are still very ethical to U.S. companies, but they ...... foreign companies that invest in the U.S." Li Yixuan shook his head, "But that's all, I remember that ten years ago, a British company was instigated by your U.S. firm to fight a lawsuit that could never be won, and it was almost dragged bankrupt by the lawsuit." Britain is your most loyal ally, and you all do it, not to mention us businesses from the British colonies. ”

Guo Yifei stopped doing it now, and angrily rebuked: "Hey, what do you call us Americans, I have always been Chinese, although I have a green card, but the green card does not mean a passport, my nationality is in Hong Kong, the same as you." ”

"What, you're not American?" This surprised Li Yixuan, who always thought that Guo Yifei was a Chinese with American nationality.

Smack~ Guo Yifei took out his Hong Kong ID card and slapped it on the table.

A blue Hong Kong Identity Card.

There is no need to doubt it, people are authentic Chinese, Li Yixuan hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I always thought ...... I'm blinded by lard, and I'm going to beat and punish you, I don't have a word! "He's also simply.

Guo Yifei was angry, waved his hand, and sighed: "I don't blame you, but you are not wrong, Hong Kong is a British colony, we are indeed not Chinese, we can only be colonial." ”

After saying this, Guo Yifei's face felt an unprecedented loneliness.

This sentence was like a sharp knife, stabbing everyone, and the room fell silent.

After a long time, Zhang Guifang said: "Hong Kong is an inseparable part of China, and Hong Kong people are Chinese. Let's not talk about that, where did we just go? We doubt FOMO's professional ethics in the lawsuit, what do you think about this? ”

Guo Yifei thought for a while, "As I said earlier, FOMO will not take the initiative to ask customers to file lawsuits, only analyze the pros and cons, let customers choose for themselves, and cannot instigate customers, no matter what, FOMO is a violation of federal law." We may file a complaint with the American Bar Association on this point, by changing firms or by changing attorneys. ”

"What about your opinion?" Zhang Guifang looked at Li Yixuan.

Li Yixuan thought for a long time and popped up a word, "How about Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP?" ”

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, also known as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, is one of the oldest and most reputable law firms in the United States and one of the most difficult law firms for law students to get into.

Simpson Thacher was founded in 1884 to operate in banking and credit law, bankruptcy law, tax law, mergers and acquisitions law, capital securities markets, and litigation law.

Although technology patents are not the main business direction of Simpson Saxon, its professionalism is not weaker than FOMO, especially in automotive and electronic technology, and even slightly better than FOMO.

"I think so." Guo Yifei took the initiative to mention it, she knew that there was such a thing, and Li Yixuan would not cooperate with FOMO no matter what.

"I'll have the papers ready." After that, he turned his head and went out.

"Wait." Li Yixuan stopped her, "Although you are FOMO, you have nothing to do with him now, you are still the legal director of Oranges, don't be burdened." It's just that FOMO violates professional ethics, and it has nothing to do with you. ”

Guo Yifei looked at him, then nodded and left.