The Opening Part of the 30th Anniversary Forum Series of China Commercial Law Firm “Breaking the Circle”–Forum on Law Firm Empowerment and Lawyer Development under the New Circumstances Held in Shenzhen

The year 2023 will mark the anniversary of China Commercial’s “30th anniversary” and the beginning of the year when China Commercial became the first “1,000-lawyer law firm” in Shenzhen. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary, China Commercial Law Firm will hold a series of forums, based on cutting-edge vision, focusing on industry dynamics, sharing practical experience with peers in the legal profession, and sharing research results with clients in the industry, in order to dedicate the 30th anniversary to the profession.

At present, with the change of economic situation, the competition of the lawyer industry is more and more intense, how to realize the broken circle in the more and more involution of the lawyer industry, how to learn from the advanced concept and operation mode outside the industry, with a wider vision, higher station for the development of the lawyer industry to inject new momentum, how to quickly call on the resources and capabilities of law firms, to promote the professional cooperation to achieve the business of generating income, is one of the most concerned topics in the current lawyer industry.

On August 7, “Breaking the Circle”-the Forum on Empowerment of Law Firms and Development of Lawyers under the New Circumstances was held at the China Commercial International Conference Center, which was hosted by China Commercial Law Firm and undertaken by China Commercial Professional and Business Operation Center. The forum was guided by Shenzhen Futian District Judicial Bureau and supported by a number of industry media, such as legal vision, Newrules, Fachan, Lex Magister, Wolters Kluwer, Hel’Interview, LexisNexis, Law Firm Management Information, etc. A number of operational experts in the field of the lawyer industry were invited to share their cutting-edge observations of the lawyer industry, with the aim of exploring the way to break the circle and discussing the future of the industry.

The forum was hosted by Managing Partner Qi Menglin, Chief Partner Gao Shu, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Executive Committee Zeng Tieshan, Managing Partner Guo Peng, Wu Bo, Senior Partner Zeng Mai, Zheng Zhonglin, Partners Zhu Shengyou, Xiong Yongming, Wang Kailin, Bao Jingjiao, Liu Jianfeng, Yang Bizhou, Director of the Center for Professional and Business Operations Chen Meiting, as well as other experts from Huizhou, Beijing, Shanghai and Shanghai. Chen Meiting, as well as lawyers from Huizhou, Shantou, Longhua and other head offices, representatives of Shenzhen law firms and business representatives attended the meeting, the site was full and the atmosphere was warm. This activity is carried out in the form of offline combined with online, “China Commercial lawyers” “legal cicadas” “WK first” “law business point of view “, “Lixin V Pin”, “Law Firm Management Information” and other multi-platform video number synchronous live broadcast, the cumulative number of online viewers of nearly 20,000 times.

At the beginning of the forum, Mr. Gao Shu, Chief Partner of China Commercial Law Firm, made an opening speech to express his heartfelt thanks and warm welcome to the keynote speakers and guests. Director Gao Shu said in his speech that the number of lawyers in China has now exceeded 650,000, and the practice environment has changed dramatically compared with the past, and the competition for case resources is also fierce. Today, all the legal operation experts gather together to discuss the feasible path of industry breakthrough, is a rare opportunity for exchange, I wish this forum a complete success, every guest has gained.

Mr. Yu Pengming, Founder of Newrules, made a keynote speech on “Frontier Observation of Lawyer Industry Development under the New Circumstances”, proposing innovative responses through the analysis of the current situation and trends of the industry. The gap between the next generation of law firms is reflected in the core competence, how to structure, plan strategy, operation and landing is the key to law firms to break through the situation.

Mr. Gucheng, co-founder of Solucoo and management consultant of Mr. Law, gave an in-depth discussion on how to build legal service products and achieve business revenue generation. Mr. Gucheng said that the formation of cross-firm and cross-regional cross-cooperation based on legal products will be the inevitable trend of the lawyer industry in the next decade.

Mr. Zhang Zhixin, Founder and CEO of Fachan, gave a wonderful speech around the core of “how to achieve high-quality development of large-scale law firms through digitalization”, and proposed that law firms should always pay attention to how to reach clients, transform clients, serve clients, build a closed loop of digitalization, and truly realize client-centered development.

Mr. Tang Jinsong, Director of China Commercial Liuzhou Branch, combined his many years of practice experience to share, and divided the major theme of “Middle Office Construction Empowering the Development of Law Firms” into four modules, namely, general problems faced by law firms, analysis of the reasons for the existence of the problems, ideas for solving the problems of law firms’ development under the model of the middle office, and practical points of the construction of the middle office, which were explained in a systematic and comprehensive way.

China Commercial Changchun branch director ZhangJialiang theory combined with practice, close to the industry hotspot, whipped into a clear explanation of the lawyer how to use the advantages of specialization to achieve the “broken circle”. Zhang director pointed out that the lawyer specialization is the inevitable trend of the development of legal services market, and young lawyers on how to choose a profession, how to play the advantages of each legal field to achieve “break the circle” provides a lot of very feasible suggestions.

Mr. Qi Menglin, Managing Partner of China Commercial Law Firm, introduced the talent introduction policy of the firm, explained in detail and comprehensively the characteristics of the firm and the empowerment of lawyers by China Commercial. The introduction and cultivation of talents is related to the intergenerational inheritance and the long-term development of the firm. Mr. Qi said, this year is the 30th anniversary of China Commercial, we will implement a more open and positive talent policy, to promote the construction of high-quality rule of law talent team, welcome all lawyers to understand and join.

The summit forum is a good attempt to promote China Commercial to build an open and synergistic communication platform in the industry with a large number of experts, rich sharing content and diverse speech topics, which have inspired the participating guests and received enthusiastic responses. Thirty years of time have passed by, and it is the initial heart that should not be tarnished. Over the past thirty years, China Commercial has always insisted on promoting the dialog and exchange among law firms and lawyers in the field of rule of law, pooling wisdom, concentrating efforts and breaking through the situation with one heart. In the future, China Commercial will continue to strengthen the industry linkage around key issues, build a dialogue platform to output cutting-edge views, look up to the stars and stand high, and seek constructive solutions for the construction of the rule of law in China and the development of the industry.