Becoming a lawyer starts with raising a Xiezhi

Chapter 515 High Fees
When Meng Lang said this, Zhang Ping said, "The main thing is that the lawyer industry is full of luxury and money. The comparison between each other is not how much contribution to the rule of law, but who charges the highest agency fee, whoever has the highest agency fee, and who makes more money. , who is a barrister, and a small lawyer who is willing to make a contribution to the rule of law may face the problem of food and clothing. After a long time, the value orientation will be wrong, and violations of law and discipline will gradually occur. This is also inevitable. Bar."

Meng Lang said: "The lawyers in our firm absolutely do not allow this kind of situation to exist. The ancients said that a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. If he is rich, he will benefit the world. If he is poor, he will be alone. The nobility of the soul is far more important than the nobility of money. And as long as we stick to our hearts, it is impossible to become poor in money. Think about it, as long as you have a high level, who will treat you badly? The fear is that some people are not high in level and want to make a lot of money. A conflict arises, and that’s where a lot of lawyers’ problems come from.”

Zhang Ping listened and nodded. She felt that what Meng Lang said was that a good lawyer is a good lawyer after all. As long as you sincerely serve your clients and continuously improve your professional level, you will never end up earning money. Put money first and something will happen.

Not long after Meng Lang talked to Zhang Ping about this matter, the family of the lawyer involved in the accident found him out of curiosity and wanted him to be the lawyer's defender.

Meng Lang met the lawyer's family and asked them, why didn't they ask Chengkang's own lawyer to defend him?The lawyer's family said that the people in Chengkang's firm wanted to avoid suspicion and were unwilling to defend him.

When meng lang heard this, he thought that the people in Chengkang's firm were very cautious, but after all, it might be that the lawyer didn't want to ask the people in the firm to defend him, so as not to be embarrassed when they met.

Meng Lang took the case.This lawyer's surname is Wei, and his name is Wei Tiancheng. The name is quite grand, but the things he does are not seen well.

After accepting the entrustment, meng lang went to the detention center to meet the lawyer.

Because everyone is a lawyer, and Wei Tiancheng usually deals with criminal cases, and his accident this time was also because of a criminal case. Therefore, after Meng Lang met him, Wei Tiancheng took the initiative to say to him: "Lawyer Meng, thank you for helping me." In defense, my case is definitely an unjust case and I did not defraud the client of his money. This was entirely the investigation agency’s deliberate persecution of me.”

Wei Tiancheng wanted him to plead not guilty when he came up, Meng Lang listened and asked: "Lawyer Wei, I don't know what the situation is now, I need to find out the situation before deciding whether to plead not guilty for you, after all, the investigative agency also It is impossible to arrest you without any evidence."

Wei Tiancheng was startled when he heard this, and said, "Lawyer Meng, you don't believe me?"

Meng Lang said: "Lawyer Wei, of course I believe you, but I believe in facts and evidence even more. If there are no facts and evidence, I can completely trust you, but if there are facts and evidence, I can't talk nonsense in court, right?"

Wei Tiancheng said: "Lawyer Meng, you are a responsible lawyer. It is right for me to ask my family to find you, but you must help me defend my innocence, otherwise, my career will be ruined completely."

Meng Lang said: "I will try my best, but if there are facts and evidence that you are suspected of fraud, I think the less guilty defense is more powerful for you."

"I didn't commit a crime. You must believe me. I believe in your strength. You will defend me successfully." Wei Tianyang said eagerly.

Meng Lang didn't want to argue with him anymore, so he said, "Okay, I'll do my best."

Wei Tiancheng told him the whole situation. Wei Tiancheng took a case before, which was a case of a boss. He was detained by the police in a different place because of contract fraud, and his family hired Wei Tiancheng as a defense lawyer.

The lawyer's fee was 30 yuan first, and the 30 yuan was the real lawyer's fee. However, he then asked for several fees from the family members of the client. These fees added up to more than 800 million yuan. This is what the investigation agency found However, Wei Tiancheng argued that the case he took was difficult and complicated, and that he had accepted money from the family members of the parties many times in order to provide him with a more effective defense. It costs money to go, and he also invited experts to review the case, and he believed that it did not constitute a crime of contract fraud. In the end, the party involved was also released by the investigation agency.

Wei Tiancheng's point of view is that he is a lawyer, and he took money from the client's family. It was for the client's better defense. I was working hard, not deceiving the client. It was a fraud crime, and the investigation agency just accepted it. The party's statement, but did not accept his statement.

After hearing what he said, Meng Lang asked: "Lawyer Wei, since it is to provide better defense for the client, why don't you determine the lawyer's fee once at the beginning of accepting the case, but insist on asking the client for the lawyer's fee several times? "

Wei Tiancheng said: "I didn't know the case was so complicated and difficult to handle at the beginning. After I got involved, I found out that the case was quite difficult, so I wanted to charge more attorney fees. I had no intention of defrauding the client of his money. As for the client, I deceived them and told them that I wanted to find so-and-so to smoothen their relationship before I asked them for money. This was completely one-sided. How could I do such a thing? Facts have also proved that I did not help them smooth their relationship. Well, it's impossible for me to do such a thing, it's all because they want to mess with me deliberately, and want to get the lawyer's fee back."

After hearing this, Meng Lang looked at him and said, "Even if it's all for lawyer's fees, the fee for one case is 900 million, isn't it a bit higher?"

Wei Tiancheng said: "Lawyer Meng, can a case be charged as high as eight or nine million yuan? Freedom is priceless. I help him defend his innocence. He is willing to spend so much. What can I do? They can't use this to think that I am a criminal." .”

Meng Lang said: "I think that if you want to be a criminal defense lawyer, you should not think about how much money you can make. The interesting thing about criminal defense is to protect the freedom and rights of the client. This is much more interesting than protecting the client's property rights in civil cases. When I handle criminal cases, I will never charge so much money, and under normal circumstances, I defend them for free, and criminal lawyers carry the expectations of ordinary people for the image of lawyers, Lawyer Wei, do you think so?"

Wei Tiancheng glanced at him and said, "Lawyer Meng, you think the same as I do, but I don't think free defense is a good phenomenon, because it will reduce the quality and standard of defense. Which of the big lawyers in foreign countries doesn't charge fees? High-quality legal services are provided to the parties?”

(End of this chapter)