On the morning of July 30, Zhou Wenjie, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice, and his delegation visited Shanghai Zhenghan Law Firm for research and investigation. Ye Bin, Director of the Lawyers Work Department of Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice, Zhang Bin, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Jiading District Bureau of Justice, and Li Guangqi, Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of Jiading District Bureau of Justice, accompanied the investigation. Partners of Zhenghan Law Firm including Lawyer Yang Runlai, Lawyer Fang Biao, Lawyer Yao Huiyun, Lawyer Zhang Wen, Lawyer Wang Xuechao and Lawyer Min Xi attended the investigation.
At the research symposium, Lawyer Yang Runlai, Director of the firm, delivered a special report on Zhenghan Law Firm’s historical development, business progress, strategic positioning, cultural development and future development plan around the two key themes of “corporatized management model” and “focus on dispute resolution practice”.
Zhou Wenjie spoke highly of all the work of Zhenghan Law Firm, pointing out that legal services are an important force to boost the high-quality development of China’s economy. Shanghai’s law firms should go global and strive for international discourse power, and corporatization is an effective path to enhance the competitiveness and risk resistance capacity of legal services. Faced with the impacts and challenges of emerging technologies on the legal industry, traditional law firms should embrace changes, offer suggestions for regulating industry management and establishing industry standards, and promote the sound development of the legal community ecosystem.