Be extremely cautious! Are you and the client "family" or "enemies"?
The highly anticipated tenth lecture of the 2022 Zhiming Law Firm series is starting right on time today. The theme of this Zhiming lawyer's presentation is "The Relationship Between Lawyers and Their Clients," and the classic case analysis is "Xie's Extramarital Affair Brings Trouble, Lawyer's Rescue Met with Betrayal." The online audience reached over a thousand listeners.
Speaking of the relationship between lawyers and clients, Zhiming Lawyer summed it up in one sentence: "It can be like 'family', or it can be like 'enemies'." Zhiming Lawyer listed three different scenarios: first, the lawyer is dedicated and responsible, and the client respects and thanks them; second, the lawyer is still dedicated and responsible, but the client burns bridges, or even turns on them; third, the lawyer is morally corrupt and incompetent, or even cheats and swindles their own client. Since the third type of lawyer is inherently of poor character, they do not fall within the scope of upright lawyers, so Zhiming Lawyer mainly warns everyone how to prevent the second scenario from happening.
At this moment, Lawyer Zhiming shared a classic case of his personal experience. Xie, as a civil servant, engaged in extramarital affairs and caused his mistress to become pregnant. The other party threatened not to give him 9 million yuan in child support and threatened to make Xie lose his job. Xie panicked and expressed his willingness to spend 900000 yuan in legal fees just to get through peacefully. Lawyer Zhiming has accumulated years of experience in handling cases, and with his resolution, this small matter was resolved within half a month. However, at this point, Xie unexpectedly felt that the lawyer's fees were too high and wanted to deny it. Lawyer Zhiming wrote a letter to Xie using his self created artistic rights protection lawsuit, combined with various factors such as emotions, reason, and law. At first glance, Xie knew that if he denied it blindly, he would only lose the bigger picture due to small gains, and could only retreat when faced with difficulties.
In conclusion, Lawyer Zhiming emphasized that as upright lawyers, we must be especially vigilant during our practice against certain clients of poor moral character who kneel and weep when seeking help, but once aided, lose all conscience and turn against us as enemies. While we righteously defend our clients' rights in accordance with the law, we must keep our minds sharply discerning and remain constantly on guard, so that doing good does not bring harm to ourselves.
