To Be a Lawyer from Truth to Goodness-A Record of Zhou Xin, an Excellent Lawyer in Jinan City

From 1996 to work in Zhongcheng Institute, to 2002, in the past seven years, with his alert, wise, pragmatic and persistent personality and solid, serious, dedicated and dedicated work, Zhou Xin completed a major turning point in his career in Zhongcheng Institute and chose the lawyer work that he liked and was willing to fight for all his life. Thanks to Zhongcheng's work experience and his deep understanding of Zhongcheng's culture and team spirit, his market development ability, business skills and business volume have steadily increased in less than four years of practice. Because of his outstanding work achievements, he was appointed deputy director of the Institute at the beginning of 2006 and was rated as an excellent lawyer in Jinan at the end of the year, which once again achieved a leap in his career. Ordinary and excellent, general and wonderful are difficult leaps in most people's career journey, while wonderful and excellent always belong to those who are firm in will, ambitious in goal and unremitting in pursuit.
   1. dedicated to the cause, to safeguard the legitimate interests of customers
In the days of growing up with Zhongcheng Institute, he bathed in the rich culture of Zhongcheng Institute, and also witnessed the wind and rain and glory of Zhongcheng Institute. Since practicing, he has interpreted the wisdom, courage and justice of lawyers as legal persons with rigorous and responsible work attitude, selfless devotion and enthusiasm, and interpreted the service standards of "excellence and perfection" and the service concept of "being responsible to customers is to be responsible to oneself", and won the respect and praise of customers with high-quality service.
In his mind, the interests of the client are above everything else. How many times have you worked late into the night to deal with the urgent business of your clients. I remember that at the beginning of 2004, in order to understand the mechanical principles and key technical elements of the infringed equipment in a trade secret infringement dispute, he braved the heat to stay in the client's production workshop many times for one day, until he found out the operation principle and technical secret points of each equipment. After winning the case, in order to prevent problems before they happen, he proposed to the client to establish a trade secret protection system, and in less than ten days, starting with the details of the enterprise's technical management, he volunteered to help the unit establish a set of content. A specific, clear rights and responsibilities, and strong technical confidentiality system. Since the system has been in operation, it has prevented infringement of the product technology.
In 2004, he participated in a joint venture project negotiation with an investment of nearly 100 million yuan on behalf of a Chinese client. Although there were full-time translators, he did not lower his work requirements because of this. He carefully studied the English materials provided by foreign companies, understood the accurate meaning of each article, and argued for matters involving China's basic rights and interests. On the eve of the signing of the contract, the foreign party proposed a number of amendments to the terms of the contract. In order to ensure the timely signing of the contract, he participated in the negotiation during the day and revised the contract text at night. He worked day and night for 3 consecutive days to ensure the timely signing of the joint venture contract between the two parties. During this period, he slept less than 8 hours.
Since the business of one of his key customers is mainly concentrated in Xinjiang, he has spent half of his time in Xinjiang since the second half of 2005, sometimes 1. for two months. In the days in Xinjiang, I often braved the severe cold and the scorching heat, traveling north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, sometimes traveling 400 or 500 kilometers a day, and dealing with a large number of legal affairs including investment, cooperation, and debt settlement. It has saved tens of millions of yuan of economic losses for customers and won high praise from customers. Over the past year, because he has been in Xinjiang for a long time, lawyers often joked that he was the "director of the Xinjiang office" of Zhongcheng ". Every time he mentions this, he always feels guilty, because he is busy, because he has been away for a long time, he has no time to take care of family affairs, and owes his family too much, too much, but the thoughts in his heart and the understanding and support of his family for his work have given him infinite The motivation makes him not feel the distance of Tianshan and forget the hard work.

In 2009, when lawyer Zhou Xin handled a case with a target value of hundreds of millions of yuan in Yanggu County Rural Credit Cooperatives, in order to find a harmonious solution to the problem, he ignored all kinds of pressure and tried his best to do the work of both parties. After more than two years of hard work, he finally solved the creditor's rights problem of the credit cooperatives and avoided the closure and bankruptcy of the debtor's enterprises, thus achieving harmony and win-win results. This kind of result is difficult for ordinary lawyers to do, but he did it because he is sincere and he is good at pursuing harmony.

In the heart of lawyer Zhou Xin, it is the lawyer's mission and responsibility to be responsible to the client, to satisfy and rest assured the client. This belief makes him fearless in the face of difficulties and pressure, and is always full of passion for work. His selfless input is also deeply moved by customers, but also for him in the industry to establish a good image.
   2. are good at business and provide quality service to the community
Zhou Xin, a lawyer, graduated from Shandong Institute of Economics, majoring in accounting and qualified as an assistant accountant. In recent years, with the development of economy and society, the demand for comprehensive legal service talents has become a development trend. In the process of handling cases, especially non-litigation business, he gives full play to the advantages of the compound major of law and accounting, and keenly understands the entry point of the case., To clear the fog in the complicated plot, so that the case can be resolved accurately and efficiently. It is also by virtue of his interdisciplinary professional advantages and his outstanding personality, so that his business has developed rapidly, he has been employed as a perennial legal adviser to dozens of government agencies, financial institutions and enterprises, such as Jinan provident fund management center, Jinan Public Utilities Bureau, Shandong Swan Cotton Machinery Co., Ltd., Shandong Taishan Real Estate Co., Ltd., Shandong Rural Credit Cooperative Association, Qingdao Huafeng Rural Cooperative Bank, Yanggu County Rural Credit Cooperative Association, etc, And handled a number of legal affairs involving trade secret protection, real estate trading, investment, mergers and acquisitions.
Because of his dedication to work and accurate grasp of new affairs, he is good at grasping the new trends of lawyer business, learning the latest business knowledge, and constantly showing his style in many new business fields. In 2002, he represented the city's first case of alleged infringement of trade secrets. At that time, this kind of case was rare in the province, and it was the first case in Jinan City. Due to the lack of precedent to follow and insufficient evidence, it encountered obstacles when filing a case in the court. After accepting the entrustment, he went to other places to investigate and collect evidence five times. After obtaining sufficient evidence, he used his professional knowledge to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the facts of the case and formed a rigorous agency plan. In handling the case, he took a different approach and reported the case to the public security organs in accordance with the law, and made the case listed as a case supervised by the Provincial Public Security Department that year. In the course of reconnaissance by the public security organs, he actively cooperated with the reconnaissance personnel in the investigation and evidence collection work. In the end, the suspect was brought to justice, and the legitimate interests of the infringed unit were protected. His courage and professionalism in handling the case were admired by the entrusting party.
Shandong Swan Cotton Machinery Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Swan Company) is a leading enterprise in my country's cotton processing machinery production industry. Because of Zhou Xin's outstanding performance and professionalism in handling legal disputes of the company, after many comparisons, the company Finally hired him as a perennial legal adviser. Due to the establishment of a cooperative relationship of mutual trust in his work, all the legal affairs of the company are now handled by him. Now, relying on the business department in charge, he has organized a working team to handle the legal affairs of the company all the year round. In 2004, in order to further introduce advanced production technology and management mode, Swan Company negotiated with the American Continental Company to establish a Sino-foreign joint venture. As a Chinese legal adviser, he participated in the negotiations and was responsible for the drafting and revision of joint venture contracts, corporate articles of association, and related technology transfer, product sales and other agreements. During the one-year negotiation process, lawyer Zhou Xin participated in nine foreign negotiations as the Chinese negotiator, and drafted more than 40 documents such as memorandums and negotiation letters on behalf of the Chinese side, and made more than 20 amendments to the 70-page joint venture contract. In the end, the two parties resolved their differences and successfully signed the joint venture contract. In the process of long-term negotiations and exchanges, his professional standards and professionalism have been highly appreciated by American companies. After the establishment of the joint venture, the US side also proposed him to serve as the company's legal adviser.

Since 2008, lawyer Zhou Xin has taken a solid step on the road of developing the system business of rural credit cooperatives. He has led the financial business team to travel to rural credit cooperatives all over the province to conduct due diligence, make suggestions and recover huge economic losses for rural credit cooperatives all over the province. So far, he has used his skillful business skills to successfully handle the case of Yanggu rural credit cooperatives with a bid value of hundreds of millions of yuan, which has been unanimously praised by the parties concerned, thus opening up the market of Zhongcheng Institute's financial department in the rural credit cooperatives system.
   3. diligent study, with knowledge to help fly ideal
With the further subdivision of the legal service market and the acceleration of professional development, being a scholar-type lawyer is a requirement and challenge for every lawyer. This requires lawyers not only to focus on legal affairs, but also to continuously strengthen business theory. Learn, develop a solid foundation of legal theory, and strive to build yourself into a compound talent. One of the important factors why Zhou Xin's lawyer can stand out in the strong Zhongcheng Institute is that he is based on his accurate understanding and grasp of the above situation.
There is no end to learning and no end to career. How to do well and do fine business, he made a choice in practical middle school and in learning. On the one hand, he extensively participated in business learning and training inside and outside the institute, and actively participated in cross-regional and cross-industry cooperation and exchanges. Over the past few years, from Changchun in the north to Guangzhou in the south, from Shanghai in the east to Xinjiang in the west, he has been left behind. Through study, we have not only learned knowledge, but also broadened our horizons and ideas. On the other hand, he pays attention to the combination of theory and practice, uses legal theory and policy to analyze problems in practice, and combines in-depth discussions with new situations in practice, and the level of practice and theoretical literacy have been comprehensively improved. He wrote "Talking about the Relief Ways for Infringement of Trade Secrets", "On Arbitration from the Perspective of the Market", "On the Allocation of the Burden of Proof in Trade Secret Cases", "On the Construction of the System of Recourse of Real Rights", "Small in my country Professional papers such as" Research on the Status of Operating Rules and Legal Risks of Loan Companies "," On the Legislative Perfection of my country's Trust Interest Damage Compensation System "have been used by lawyers in Shandong Province and Jinan City award in business forum. In particular, the cooperative paper "On the Basic Principles of SPT Legal Framework in Asset Securitization and the Improvement of my country's Relevant Legislation" won the 2009 "Eighth China Lawyers Forum Outstanding Thesis Award" and was published in Peking University Press in August 2009 "Mission Responsibility Development-The 8th China Lawyers Forum Outstanding Thesis Collection" published, and won the 2010 Jinan City Outstanding Rule of Law Thesis Award.
   4. are willing to contribute and repay the society with sincerity.

Charity is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Enthusiasm for public welfare is a glorious tradition for all adults. From the day he entered the institute, he was both an organizer of public welfare activities and an active participant, from donating to the fight against SARS to the Indian Ocean. Donation to the people affected by the earthquake and tsunami, "One Day Donation", to the Wenchuan earthquake and Yushu earthquake-stricken areas in Qinghai, to send warmth and love to the people in need, then he donated money to Niubao Township Middle School, donated money to build the first lawyer hope primary school in Shandong Province, and other public welfare activities. He always gave generously and selflessly extended a helping hand. Over the past few years, he has donated tens of thousands of yuan in various donations, showing a good moral and high sense of social responsibility.
He has been an active participant in the legal consultation and legal aid activities organized or participated in by Zhongcheng Institute. Among them, in April 2011, in the "Double Hundred" activity of legal services in the community carried out in accordance with the unified deployment and requirements of the Municipal Bureau, he disregarded the fatigue of business trips, personally organized arrangements, and patiently answered legal questions for the masses. Pair, take to the streets every Saturday to carry out voluntary legal service activities. Because of his sincere and easy attitude and meticulous answers, his desk is always full of people asking for help, which gives full play to the role of lawyers in resolving social conflicts and eliminating social conflicts.
"It is the unshirkable responsibility of lawyers to provide legal aid for vulnerable groups." whenever he encounters laid-off workers, women, children and the elderly seeking help, he always warmly receives them. At this time, "zero charge" becomes his first choice. In situations where he cannot represent in person, he always arranges experienced professional lawyers to represent him, calls to inquire about the progress of the case, and organizes group discussions is his "supervision" style. Because he often gives timely help to the parties in difficulty, he has to push off some charging business every year. Whenever someone talks about the gains and losses of doing so, he always smiles faintly and still enjoys it.
"The key to being a good lawyer is to be able to help them eliminate legal risks and successfully deal with litigation from the perspective of the client, rather than pursuing a generous income." Zhou Xinshi upholds this belief and strides forward on the road of his lawyer without complaint or regret.