Written by Wang Houlong, a lawyer at Shandong Chishan Law Firm, on April 24, 2024
The development trend of the lawyer industry lies in the team of lawyers. This is an inevitable law of historical development.
I am a farmer. I always liked to study agriculture, and I also liked to study history. I always like to learn from history.
The law of development of the lawyer profession is the same as that of agriculture in all dynasties, or the law of development of the country. The length of the dynasties in Chinese history is always two or three hundred years. In the end, it is the extreme concentration of wealth and the disintegration of society. Among them, agriculture is the most representative.
At the beginning of each dynasty in China, the land under heaven was owned by the state, or the emperor. Then the state implements the equalization of land, and each person has a share of land. This means that all farmers are yeoman farmers. Some people who run well will become rich peasants and landlords, and the land will gradually be concentrated. Then there will be polarization, and a large number of yeoman farmers will become poor wage farmers.
The lawyer profession is the same: at the beginning, they all became yeoman farmers, and those who did well became rich peasants and landlords, and those who did not do well became poor hired peasants.
The law firm was only a nominal unit, and there were rich peasants, landlords, and poor peasants in it.
The team leaders in the law firm are rich peasants and landlords, and those who work for team leaders are poor hired peasants.
A law firm is just a framework for the legal profession. The essence lies in the team leader. They each run an independent kingdom. The director of the law firm is the nominal emperor, the head of each team, and the princes with real power.
The average lawyer always thinks that he is being exploited by others. I don't think there's any need to hold such a grudge against others, and if you want to be resentful, then you should resent yourself for not working hard. Because when we first started working as lawyers, everyone was a yeoman farmer, but later they did not work hard and became poor and became poor hired peasants, shouldn't we find the reason from ourselves? On the contrary, they hated the rich peasants and landlords? The reason why the rich peasants and landlords became rich was because they were good at management. It is true that the kulaks and landlords exploited the poor hired peasants. In the same way, if the capitalists don't hire you, where are you going to work? Everyone wants to start a business and become a boss, but how many people can succeed?
The question of whether there is exploitation and whether there is employment should be looked at in a comprehensive way. You can't just look at it from one angle.
The trend of the development of the lawyer industry is also the gradual transfer of the lawyer's business to those lawyers who are better run, including the transfer to those law firms that are better run. In the future, the trend is that a large number of law firms will be eliminated, a large number of lawyers will be eliminated, and a large number of lawyers will lose their status as yeoman farmers and become poor hired farmers and wage earners. The number of yeoman farmers will be small.
The internal team members of the law firm will gradually implement the labor relationship with the team leader. Although it is nominally an employment relationship with a lawyer. In the process of handling cases, the hired lawyer gradually loses his autonomy and should be completely subordinate to the team leader. Even hiring a lawyer is without the right to take on the case. It is only up to the team leader to decide whether or not to take over the case?
The team leader has the right to decide whether the team will take over the case, and the risk management and control of the case is completely controlled by the team leader.
The salaries of the members of the lawyer team are only about the same as the treatment of the employees of the enterprise. Don't think about being a lawyer anymore and get rich.
There is also the issue of the employment of persons with legal qualifications, or lawyers' licenses; There is a license, no law firm wants it. The situation where the poor jump and no one wants it should happen. Don't believe me?
