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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.
![[Zhongji News] Attorney Hai Bo from our firm has been invited to give a lecture to the 2025 applicant lawyers of the Kunming Lawyers Association.](/npublic/img/s.png "[Zhongji News] Attorney Hai Bo from our firm has been invited to give a lecture to the 2025 applicant lawyers of the Kunming Lawyers Association.")
From August 3 to August 9, 2025, the first offline intensive training session for applicants seeking lawyer’s licenses for 2025, organized by the Kunming Lawyers Association, was successfully held in the International Conference Hall on the fifth floor of the Kunming Taili International Hotel. During the training, Attorney She Haibo was invited to deliver a highly informative and practical special lecture to the trainee lawyers in attendance.
As the fight against corruption continues to deepen, the number of official misconduct cases—primarily involving bribery offenses—remains on a fairly rapid upward trajectory. At the same time, the amounts involved in these official misconduct cases keep shattering previous perceptions. Under the current judicial interpretation, which stipulates that embezzlement and bribery amounts exceeding 3 million yuan will result in a sentence of more than ten years’ imprisonment, whether the defendant can have their legal liability reduced and receive a lighter sentence often hinges on whether they qualify for the self-surrender and meritorious service provisions set forth in Articles 67 and 68 of the Criminal Law—these provisions frequently become the defendant’s last “lifeline.” However, in judicial practice, due to inconsistencies in judicial philosophies and differences in evidence-gathering approaches, the determination of self-surrender circumstances often becomes a contentious and difficult issue throughout the course of case handling. Drawing on common problems encountered in judicial practice, the author examines the current practical challenges in identifying self-surrender circumstances in official misconduct cases, thereby calling for the consolidation of consensus within judicial practice.
[Lawyer’s Perspective] A Comparative Legal Examination of the Miranda Rule
The Miranda Rule, born out of the Miranda case in Arizona, USA, in the 1960s, has had a profound impact on the history of law. In essence, the Miranda Rule brought to public attention—through a sensationalized approach—the suspect’s right to remain silent and the right to have an attorney present (the right to legal counsel)—leaving an indelible impression on everyone. Although some countries’ laws had already addressed the rights to silence and to counsel prior to this, it was the Miranda Rule that explicitly required that these rights be clearly and unmistakably informed to the suspect; otherwise, the procedure would be deemed unlawful. In fact, the Miranda Rule is not unfamiliar to the general public. We often see it portrayed in movies and TV shows—particularly in Hong Kong dramas—where officers frequently say during arrests: “You have the right to remain silent, but everything you say may be used against you in court.” That’s precisely the Miranda Rule (also known as the Miranda Warning)—though the full text of the Miranda Rule encompasses much more than just this brief statement.
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