[Shenzhen Lawyers Association] The new working team of the Municipal Lawyers Association visited the Provincial Lawyers Association and Guangzhou Lawyers Association.
On May 17, Lin Changchi, President of the Municipal Lawyers Association, Wei Hanjiao, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Vice Presidents Zhang Cheng, Cai Hua, Yang Xiao, Yin Chenggang, Han Jun, Wang Tengfeng, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board Xiao Yinghong, and Secretary-General Wang Hong, among others, visited the Provincial Lawyers Association and Guangzhou Lawyers Association in succession.
During the visit to the Provincial Lawyers Association, Liang Zhen, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Justice, attended the symposium and delivered a speech. Huang Ting, Director of the Lawyer Management Office of the Provincial Department of Justice, Xiao Shengfang, President of the Provincial Lawyers Association, Vice Presidents Wang Bo, Zhuang Weiyan, Wu Xingyin, and Secretary-General Ye Gang participated in the symposium.
President Lin Changchi reported to the Provincial Department of Justice and the Provincial Lawyers Association on recent key work and future work plans. Currently, the Shenzhen Lawyers Association has completed the division of responsibilities for the President's team and the Council, and is accelerating the establishment of specialized and professional committees, expected to be completed by the end of June, laying the foundation for comprehensive work in the second half of the year. In the future, the Municipal Lawyers Association's work will focus on ten directions: first, actively responding to the national "Belt and Road" development strategy, taking initiative to "go global," increasing efforts to cultivate foreign-related legal service talents, and strengthening law firms; second, promoting industry digitalization and informatization with the "Internet+" concept, creating conditions for refined law firm management, lawyer business expansion, and high-quality business handling; third, intensifying efforts to protect lawyers' practice rights, establishing a joint working mechanism, improving institutional rights protection, handling individual case rights protection, and seeking benefits for lawyers; fourth, accelerating the revision of the "Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Lawyers Regulations," providing guarantees for building an excellent rule-of-law city and lawyer practice through institutional design; fifth, promoting the establishment of a lawyers' college as soon as possible, learning from mature operational models in various places to build a platform for industry legal talent cultivation and development strategy research; sixth, promoting the construction of a public defender system, increasing the defense rate in criminal cases, and creating new business growth points for the industry; seventh, promoting the construction of a legal professional community, establishing normalized exchange and cooperation mechanisms, solving lawyers' practice difficulties, standardizing practice, and improving judicial credibility; eighth, promoting government purchase of legal services, guiding the government and enterprises to value the importance of legal services, and expanding the living space for the legal profession; ninth, strengthening communication and contact with lawyer representatives, relying on representatives to contribute wisdom to the association's planning and development; tenth, paying attention to vulnerable groups such as senior lawyers, female lawyers, and young lawyers, while strengthening the construction of the secretariat, and striving to provide good services based on the needs of the broad membership. President Lin Changchi stated that the new working team of the Lawyers Association will humbly listen to the directives of the Provincial Department of Justice and the Provincial Lawyers Association, implement them, unite and collaborate, work pragmatically, and promote industry development.
Deputy Director Liang Zhen, on behalf of the Department's Party Committee, congratulated the formation of the new working team of the Municipal Lawyers Association and affirmed the election work of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association. Regarding the next steps in lawyer management and service work, he pointed out the need to firmly establish a sense of overall situation, service awareness, and innovation awareness, focus on properly handling the relationship with judicial administrative organs, the relationship between provincial and municipal lawyers associations, and the relationship between the lawyers association and its Party committee. In line with the Department's Party Committee requirement of "consolidating strengths, supplementing weaknesses, innovating, and leading," efforts should be made to strengthen execution, promote the role of the lawyer team, and provide support for the economic and social development of Shenzhen and the entire province.
During the visit to the Guangzhou Lawyers Association, the new working team of the Shenzhen Lawyers Association held discussions with Guangzhou Lawyers Association President Xing Yiqiang, Vice Presidents Bi Yalin, Zhan Liyuan, Wang Zhijun, Wen Zhenshu, Guan Xuan Yun, Huang Shan, Chief Supervisor Chen Mo, and Secretary General Chen Baolian. The Shenzhen Lawyers Association stated that Guangzhou Lawyers Association's experience in areas such as lawyer academy construction, youth lawyer forums, government procurement of legal services, and interview assessments for interns is worth learning from. Both sides agreed that as relatively developed regions in Guangdong's legal profession, Guangzhou and Shenzhen should strengthen ties, enhance communication, complement each other's strengths, and share resources. They will engage in practical cooperation in training foreign-related legal talents, developing legal service products, and hosting business forums, aiming to increase the breadth, depth, and height of collaboration, and jointly promote the healthy development of the legal profession in both cities.
