The profession of lawyer is an extremely realistic profession, solving all kinds of complex and difficult practical problems every day. Because the case happens in real life. And when it comes to solving these problems, what lawyers see, hear, and experience are really the entanglement of particularly realistic interests.
We know that almost ninety percent or more of the cases are related to interests, all related to money. So in this case, we say, "How can you not get your shoes wet when you walk by the river?" When a lawyer is faced with these entanglements of interests every day, how can his heart not be contaminated by these interests? Therefore, some lawyers began to be unable to hold on to themselves.
At the same time, in the process of resolving cases, we will always encounter all kinds of people and things that do not abide by the rules, people and things that do not abide by the rule of law, and people and things that use unspoken rules to interfere with the people and things in the case. This kind of realistic thing will often make many people who enter the profession of lawyers lose their faith again.
Slowly, they begin to surrender to reality, and begin to see only money, only unspoken rules, only the exchange of various interests, and forget that their original intention is to win dignity for the parties and win progress for society. At this time, how could he possibly become a good lawyer?
So, in turn, a good lawyer, he dares to face the reality. In the words of Mr. Lu Xun, he dared to face the bleak reality. And with great courage, to kill a way in this sea of blood in reality. The way he can kill a way is to strengthen his inner faith. What is this belief? It's the ideal.
We often say that reality is very bone, and the ideal is very full. The ideal of fullness is often beaten to the ground in the face of the reality of bone feeling. But this kind of statement is actually only the idea of some people who have pessimistic feelings and pessimistic ideas.
For an optimistic person, the reason why a good lawyer can face reality is precisely because he carries a full ideal. He believes that through his own efforts, he can win dignity for the parties concerned, and can make progress for society and society. Through the fair and just handling of each case, the wheel of progress in the rule of law in our society can roll forward. He will deeply engrave every case he handles on the benchmark of rule of law progress and rule of law fairness, forming one distinct scale after another.
So, a good lawyer, he is rich in ideals. His ideal, which is what we said before: self-cultivation and family rule the country and the world. Such a lawyer, then he must be a good lawyer, must be a good lawyer, must be a brilliant lawyer, must be a lawyer who can really serve his clients. Such a lawyer is the one who wholeheartedly serves his clients.
(This article is based on the video of Cao Baoyin, chief counsel of Beijing State Consulting Law Firm,[Cao Shu said that the good lawyer series] was compiled)