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 bespectacled male lawyer in his thirties. According to his self-introduction, his surname is Feng, and he is the assistant to the director of the law of Wanke, this assistant is not a paralegal in the ordinary sense, but has management authority, which is equivalent to the assistant to the president in the company, and is responsible for the management and coordination of the team.

"Let me first introduce the situation and treatment of the team, Lawyer Wan's team has a total of 38 lawyers, including 10 paralegals.

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

The Legal Counsel Department currently has 20 lawyers and 8 paralegals. The legal counsel units include five banks and other financial institutions, 12 large construction enterprises, eight of which are Chinese enterprises and central enterprises, and the rest are private enterprises. In addition, there are 25 medium-sized private enterprises and 12 government agencies. It mainly serves legal counsel units. There is a base salary and commission.

The litigation department has 18 lawyers and 2 paralegals, and the paralegals are mainly responsible for preparing the entrustment procedures and copying for the lawyers, as well as the daily confirmation of assigned cases. The lawyer in the litigation department does not have a basic salary, and there is a commission for handling cases in the firm, which is four or six points, and the lawyer is divided into sixty percent, and there is no need to deduct other fees except for individual income tax and social security. Individual cases are distributed according to the proportion of 37, and lawyers are allocated 70%, and there is no need to deduct other fees except for individual income tax and social security.

At the end of this year, there will be five lawyers who will change firms or become commission lawyers, so our team needs to recruit lawyers in advance. It just so happens that Mr. Gu's team is about to be transferred, so after evaluation, three of you lawyers join our team, and we can recruit two more lawyers to fill the vacancy.

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

"Assistant Feng, please ask, there are eighteen lawyers in the litigation department, is their workload saturated?" Xie Youhe asked.

"Judging from last year's statistics, on average, two cases per litigator per month is no problem, of course, some cases are explicitly requested by a lawyer to be done by the parties, so such cases cannot be assigned to other lawyers.

In addition, our team's case fee standard is a minimum of 10,000 yuan, and if it is a case from other provinces, the lawyer's fee starts at 20,000 yuan. Of course, the lawyer's fee for the case of the related account may be relatively low, but the number is not large, and the team will settle the lawyer's fee according to the minimum lawyer's fee of 10,000 yuan. Assistant Feng said.

"So how do you assign cases? Is it random, or is it ......" Xie Youhe asked the question Fang Yi wanted to ask.

Don't look at the division of cases seems to be very simple, but in fact, it is related to the stability and development of a team. Many law firm teams claim to divide cases according to the professional ability of lawyers, but in practice, most of them leave the fat work to themselves or their friends or stakeholders, and many lawyers in the team handle more than 100 cases a year, and no one has made more money by handling three or five cases, which is the reason.

After all, no one who can be a lawyer is a fool, even if he can't see it in a short time, he will definitely find clues after a long time, either transfer to another team to practice, and slowly the team will disperse. So this question is still very important.

"Except for cases that the client asks a lawyer to take on by name, we will put the relevant information in the large group of the litigation department for other cases, and the lawyer will claim it by himself.

Our paralegal will take care of all the formalities after confirming the lawyer. Under the principle of more work, we have also set a limit on the number of cases that litigators can accept each month to no more than three, with one exception, cases designated by the team leader are not counted.

Of course, if you grab a case but find that you can't do it alone, you can cooperate with other lawyers or transfer it to other lawyers, but the distribution of the commission needs to be negotiated by the lawyer himself, and the team does not care.

However, if you claim the case but can't return it, you will have to deduct the commission, so you should be cautious when claiming the case. In the course of handling a case, if a lawyer is complained by a client, if it is found that the lawyer has made a mistake or negligence, the commission will also be deducted.

In addition, it is a principle that the team's cases must not be cooperated with lawyers outside the team. Assistant Feng said.

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

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

Another question, who is responsible for disseminating case information, is also more sensitive, because the person who distributes the case information will be the first to know the facts of the case, and may notify a lawyer with an interest to snatch the case in time. However, fortunately, a lawyer can only handle a maximum of three litigation cases in the firm a month, which can offset this risk, even so, Fang Yi still wants to know who is responsible for the allocation of cases.

"Let me answer your first question first, the team must be a lawyer with more than five years of practical experience, and must pass the team's assessment, if more than two cases are refunded due to technical problems, then the lawyer will leave. Of course, the salary of the lawyer is also very high, with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan, plus a commission for the negotiation of the case.

I forgot to mention just now, now we have a total of three lawyers, and we have to add two more lawyers, if you are interested, you can apply, the lawyers do not belong to any department, I am in charge.

The second question is who will distribute the case information. This work is carried out by another paralegal surnamed Li of Lawyer Wan, who is notoriously old-fashioned in the team, who does not speak up on matters of principle, and who is not a lawyer. Assistant Feng said.

Fang Yi and the three of them glanced at each other, this way of assigning cases is more interesting, although it is not perfect, but 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, Litigation Lawyer, Case Lawyer and Legal Counsel Department, there is only one place for a lawyer in the Legal Counsel Department, two places for a case lawyer, and there are more litigation lawyers.

Previously, Mr. Gu has already given us your information, and our evaluation will be carried out tomorrow, but as a condition for Mr. Gu's non-litigation team to be transferred to our law firm, it is not a big problem for the three of you lawyers to enter our team. You can choose the department first. Assistant Feng said.

It was only at this time that Fang Yi understood that the entry of the three of them into Wanhua United Law Firm was a condition for Gu's non-litigation team to be merged into the law firm's team, in other words, the three of them were accessories. Thinking like this, Fang Yi couldn't help but feel a little hot on his face. However, Gu Datong is still very affectionate, at least he did not abandon everyone.

(End of chapter)