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Collaboration Among Professionals: Lawyers and Notaries “Join Hands” to Launch a New Model of Legal Services
On December 30, 2020, Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (formerly Yunnan Liu Hule Law Firm) and Kunming Mingxin Notary Office held a signing ceremony at the new office building of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, during which they signed a “Strategic Cooperation Agreement.” The two parties have thus established a strategic partnership aimed at promoting the integration and innovation of legal and notarial services through resource sharing and win-win cooperation, and jointly advancing cross-border integrated legal service projects.
On December 30, 2020, Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm (formerly Yunnan Liu Hule Law Firm) and Kunming Mingxin Notary Office held a signing ceremony at the new office building of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, during which they signed a “Strategic Cooperation Agreement.” The two parties have thus established themselves as strategic partners, aiming to promote the integration and innovation of legal and notarial services through resource sharing and win-win cooperation, and jointly advance cross-border integrated legal service projects.
Wan Li, Director of Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm; Wang Jinfan, Secretary of the Party Branch; Lei Zhixin, Lei Zhixin, Zhang Qian, and Wang Lin, Managing Partners; and Duan Wei, Director of Kunming Mingxin Notary Office; as well as Li Pengming, Ding Xiaoye, and Zhang Zhiping, members of the Executive Committee, attended the signing ceremony as representatives.
Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm, as the first law firm in Yunnan Province’s legal services industry to establish a legal service presence in North America, boasts extensive experience in cross-border legal services. Kunming Mingxin Notary Office, a well-known notary service institution within Yunnan Province, has unique expertise in foreign-related notarization services. The establishment of a strategic partnership between the two entities will foster a collaborative engagement model, promoting enhanced cooperation in Party organization building, establishing cooperative engagement mechanisms, facilitating business exchange and collaboration, pursuing brand strategic partnerships, and fostering cultural exchanges—thereby achieving positive interaction and exploring a new model of legal services featuring “lawyers + notaries.”
The partnership between Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm and the Mingxin Notary Office of Kunming City is an important step in implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech on “strengthening rule-of-law work involving foreign affairs and raising the rule-of-law level of foreign-related work.” It also represents a pioneering initiative in taking legal services beyond China’s borders. Guided by the principle that “wherever Chinese enterprises and Chinese citizens go, legal services will follow,” the two parties will extend their legal services overseas to provide support and protection for the Belt and Road Initiative.
![[Lawyer’s Perspective] What a Legal Professional Thought About While Reflecting on the Textile Factory Arson Case](/npublic/img/s.png "[Lawyer’s Perspective] What a Legal Professional Thought About While Reflecting on the Textile Factory Arson Case")
It’s been a little over two months since the arson incident at the bustling textile factory. The real reason I’m writing this article only now is due to a small, personal circumstance. Two months ago, Xiao Tian from the School of Law at Beijing University of Science and Technology came to our team for a summer internship. At the time, just to gauge Xiao Tian’s legal expertise, I asked her to write an article for me to take a look at. As it happened, the textile-factory arson case had occurred not long before, so I suggested that Xiao Tian write an article on that very topic. She did, and when I read it, I thought her writing was quite good—though it differed somewhat from my own perspective. I think I even said something along the lines of, “I’ll revise the article a bit and then publish it on the ‘Haibo Criminal Defense’ WeChat public account.” But somehow, I never got around to doing that. Now that Xiao Tian’s two-month summer internship is almost over, I suddenly remembered this project—and decided to finally see it through. That’s how this article came to be.
In the past couple of days, two incidents have been circulating with considerable buzz within legal circles: One is an incomplete copy of a judgment issued by the People’s Court of a certain county in southwestern China, involving a construction contract dispute; the other is a series of short videos documenting the trial of the late Frank Caprio, former judge of the Providence Municipal Court in Rhode Island, USA, along with memoirs paying tribute to Judge Frank. In the judgment on the construction contract dispute issued by the People’s Court of that county in southwestern China, the court employed straightforward, unadorned political logic and factual rationality to evaluate and reject the defendant’s defense based on the statute of limitations—though such a defense might otherwise have been legally valid. In the short videos of Judge Frank’s trials that have been widely shared, most episodes feature Judge Frank engaging in witty and insightful conversations with the defendants about their lives, ultimately dismissing the charges against them. If there’s any common thread between these two cases, it’s precisely how both approached the interplay between natural justice, human sentiment, objective facts, and legal provisions—and how they arrived at judgments that were accepted by the parties involved and widely endorsed by the public.
To deeply implement the socialist rule-of-law philosophy and help build a cadre team that is loyal, clean, and responsible, recently, Lawyer Hai-bo Shui from Yunnan Zhongji Law Firm was invited by China Shipbuilding Industry Materials Yun-Gui Co., Ltd. to deliver a special rule-of-law lecture on the theme of “Preventing Illegal and Criminal Activities.”
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