Becoming a lawyer starts with raising a Xiezhi

Chapter 518
Meng Lang believes that Wei Tiancheng committed a crime in this case, but as he said, can the lawyer's affairs be called fraud?

Soon, the case entered the review and prosecution stage, and he could go to copy and review the papers. After going to review the papers, he realized that Wei Tiancheng had let others catch too much.

It turned out that the client in the case he was handling secretly recorded the phone calls with him. Every time Wei Tiancheng asked someone for money, it was in the name of helping them find a relationship. If there was no recording, he could not admit it, but Now that someone has recorded the sound, what else can he do?
Go to see Wei Tiancheng again.After telling Wei Tiancheng about the situation, Wei Tian was silent for a moment and said, "Tell them that looking for a relationship is just an excuse, but in fact the money is all lawyer fees, and I have a lawyer fee contract signed with them."

"Where is the contract now?" Meng Lang asked.

"You go to my office to get it, and they will provide it to you." Wei Tiancheng said.

"The existing evidence is not good for you, Lawyer Wei, I hope you are mentally prepared." Meng Lang reminded him.

Wei Tiancheng said: "I know, I didn't expect him to mess with me behind the scenes. I often catch hawks, but the hawks pecked at my eyes. Lawyer Meng, you must try your best to defend this matter for me. You I also know that there are some irregularities in the legal profession, but they should not be adjusted from the perspective of criminals. It's a common thing to do something like a borderline. Think about it, if they don't believe in me and my ability, no matter how I tell them, will they give me money? The case I'm handling is not a local case. , I told them to find a relationship, did they believe it? Therefore, this matter can be said to be deceiving them, but they will only be deceived because they still think that my professional ability can help them. If I change to a small lawyer, it will be the same Say, will they believe it?"

Wei Tiancheng was quite excited at the end, mainly because he was not used to the life in the detention center, and he thought he was knowledgeable about the law. It was a very wrong thing for the police to arrest him now because the client called the police.

However, Meng Lang wanted to say something to him. As an old lawyer, the first thing to talk about is character. If character is gone, do you still have the face to say this?It's okay to say such words from a young lawyer who can't afford to eat, but he has already achieved fame and earned a lot of money. Is it necessary to play the side ball?
The client does give you money because they trust you. They will believe whatever you say. However, you lie to them. How can this not make them angry?

As a defense lawyer, he couldn't talk to Wei Tiancheng about these words, so he could only say to him: "Lawyer Wei, I will do my best."

After leaving the detention center, Meng Lang went to Wei Tiancheng's law firm. Through his assistant, he found the lawyer's fee contracts.

There are indeed contracts for the collection of these more than 800 million yuan, but two of them were signed by the parties, but one of them was not signed by the parties. The office did not know about these three contracts at all. In other words, the fees of more than 800 million yuan It is not appropriate to collect it without going through the office.

Only the legal fees of 30 were collected through the firm.

Meng Lang analyzed that these three contracts were signed by Wei Tiancheng afterwards, and the purpose was naturally to prevent any problems in the future. In fact, he had already considered that this situation was wrong.

However, this is probably just being smart. Submitting these contracts may have some effect, or it may not have any effect at all.

After a while, the case went to court, and then the court session began.

Half a month before the trial, Wei Tian hired another lawyer just to be on the safe side. Only when Meng Lang arrived did he learn that a defendant could hire up to two lawyers to defend him. He had exhausted all his options.

The new lawyer he hired is also an old lawyer who has been in the criminal defense business for many years. He was invited to sit in charge and increase the possibility of winning the case.

The case was heard in the grassroots court. Meng Lang and the old lawyer appeared in court to defend Wei Tiancheng, and the victim's side also invited an attorney to appear in court to participate in the trial.

Wei Tiancheng was taken to the court. Although he had been in the detention center for several months, he was still in good spirits, and his relatives also came.Entering the court, he looked at the family members, smiled, and signaled them not to worry.

The judge began to check the identity of the defendant, and Wei Tiancheng answered loudly, full of air.

After checking, the public prosecutor began to interrogate.

"Defendant Wei Tiancheng, the public prosecutor is now interrogating you, and I hope you can truthfully answer the questions raised by the public prosecutor. Did you hear clearly?"

"I know."

"How did the victim find you and ask you to defend him as his defense lawyer?"

"This case was introduced to me by a friend. After I heard about it, I didn't really want to take the case because it was out of town and I wasn't used to traveling on business, so I wanted to refuse, but because of my friend's face, I let the victim My son came over to talk. The victim was being detained in another place at the time. When his son arrived, he told me the basic situation. The case was relatively large, and the amount of suspected contract fraud was hundreds of millions. I told his son about your case. It was quite difficult, and if you wanted to successfully defend yourself, it would cost a lot of money, so his son said he was willing to spend any amount of money as long as his father could be released from the detention center, so I said yes, just go back and wait for my news."

"go on."

"A few days later, his son came to me again, and I told him that you have to charge at least 1000 million in this case before I can defend your father. His son asked me if I could pay less , their company still needs to represent some civil cases. If this case is completed, the civil cases can also be handed over to me. After hearing this, I thought about it and thought it would be okay. This is equivalent to expanding business. I told them, at least 800 million. His son agreed after thinking for a long time, but asked if he didn't have much money now, could he pay a deposit first? I said it was against the rules, but he begged me to agree, and then My friend spoke for him, so I agreed and asked him to pay a deposit of 30 yuan first, and all of the 30 yuan was paid to our law firm's account."

"You mean, the more than 800 million you collected are all legal fees?"

"Yes."

"Defendant Wei Tiancheng, you are a lawyer. The public prosecutor hopes that you can speak truthfully. If the more than 800 million is the lawyer's fee, why do you call the victim's son again and again, saying that you need to spend money to find a relationship? , let the victim’s son pay you?”

(End of this chapter)