The verdict was pending, Wu Jie was naturally dissatisfied, she entangled with Cheng Yao for a while, asked Cheng Yao for the money for a round-trip taxi, took some money, and then, under Cheng Yao's low-profile reassurance and promise, she reluctantly left .
Cheng Yao, who was finally purified, breathed a sigh of relief, and sat in the hall of the court, staring blankly at the people entering and leaving the door. The recent work intensity is not the greatest, but Cheng Yao feels inexplicably tired, especially tired.
"Cheng Yao?"
Just when Cheng Yao was distracted, a male voice stopped her.
Cheng Yao turned her head and was stunned for a moment before she remembered that the person who stopped her was Li Chengxuan from BRICS Law Firm, who she had met at Bao Rui's party before.
Li Chengxuan is straightforward, and he didn't care if Cheng Yao didn't recognize him immediately, he said enthusiastically: "Are you here for the court session too?" He glanced at Cheng Yao, "Look at you with such a bad complexion, you should Are you still working under Qian Heng?"
"Hey, Qian Heng is never soft on young people." Li Chengxuan obviously seized the opportunity to poach Qian Heng's corner, "Xiao Cheng, what I told you last time is still valid now, you want If you can't stand Qian Heng anymore, you can think about me. Although our BRICs generate less income than Jun Heng, our partners are definitely more approachable than Qian Heng! Do you still keep the business card I gave you earlier?"
Cheng Yao just smiled: "Keep it."
Li Chengxuan took Cheng Yao to complain about Qian Heng for a while, and left because he had to rush to the court.
Cheng Yao smiled and didn't take it seriously, she was thinking about other things at the moment, thinking about her future, about work, about feelings, about the pending outcome of Wu Jie's case.
—
Fortunately, the big stone in Cheng Yao's heart did not hang for long. Three days later, Wu Jie's case came to a verdict.
The 100,000 yuan loan before marriage was accepted!
As Cheng Yao expected, although the original is still given priority in proof, the photocopies can only be supplementary evidence. In the absence of other evidence, the photocopies cannot be used alone as the basis for determining the facts of the case, but once a chain of evidence is formed , the original is lost, and the photocopies can also be used as the key to fact determination.
In Wu Jie’s case, her husband admitted to the loan when she didn’t know about the loss of the original IOU. In addition to the bank transfer records at that time, it can be presumed that the loan existed. Although Wu Jie's husband and lawyer tried their best to deny the loan after knowing that the original document was lost, they could not provide evidence to support their claim, so it was not accepted by the court in the end.
After weighing the matter, Wu Jie's ex-husband also decided not to appeal. After the time expires, the first-instance judgment will take effect, and the case will be considered settled.
After receiving the verdict, Cheng Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although such an unprofessional thing happened as the loss of the original document, fortunately, she had an explanation to Wu Jie in the final result.
But Wu Jie was obviously still dissatisfied: "Xiao Cheng, you made such a mistake this time, and you still want me to pay the lawyer's fees, isn't it unreasonable? You lost all my IOUs, this matter can't be so simple. Is it over?" Wu Jie hinted, "It can't be exempted completely, at least give me a discount, right? What's more, I lost the original copy that I gave you, you have to give me mental compensation, right? "
"It was my fault that I lost the original. But Aunt Wu, according to the Lawyers Law, only when the lawyer caused losses to the client due to his fault, would he be liable for compensation. I did not let the loss of the original affect the outcome of this case, It did not cause any loss to you. I blame myself for losing the original document, but my work for this case was not only to help you fight for a piece of pre-marital property, but also to fight for the division of property after marriage. I also spent a lot of time. Although I am your attorney, but you signed the contract with our law firm, and our law firm has never exempted attorney fees for this. If you want to complain to the law association about my unprofessional behavior of losing the original, I am also willing to accept criticism and punishment from the Lawyers Association."
Because she made a mistake first, Cheng Yao was very patient and low profile. Seeing that the price bargaining failed, Wu Jie naturally became angry and began to attack Cheng Yao. Cheng Yao accepted this with a good temper and continued. apologize.
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Yao thought that Wu Jie's matter had come to an end, but she never expected that Wu Jie would not only count pennies and pennies, but would never give up in order to take advantage and fail to achieve her goal.
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Wu Jie came in the afternoon. Cheng Yao was receiving clients in the office when she heard commotion in the big office area.
"Tell your boss to come out! You, Jun Heng, claim to be professionals to handle professional affairs, what's the result? What the hell did your lawyer do? You lost all my original IOUs, and even made such a mess, and still Do you have the guts to ask me how much I charge for my lawyer's fees?" Wu Jie put on the appearance of a shrew, full of anger and slapstick, "If you don't settle this matter for me, I'll be pulling a banner downstairs tomorrow! "
Someone probably tried to persuade Wu Jie, but to no avail, Wu Jie's voice was raised eight notches: "Who are you? What right do you have to talk to me? What misunderstanding? Oh, tell your Cheng Yao to come out! Ask her face to face, is there a misunderstanding?! Did she lose my original?!"
Things had progressed to this point, Cheng Yao had no way out, she had no choice but to walk out with her lips pressed together under the surprised eyes of the clients in the conference room.
When Wu Jie saw Cheng Yao, her arrogance became even more arrogant, and her acting skills became even more exaggerated: "Does your law firm think that I am not the kind of big client with hundreds of millions in family, so you neglect me and assign me this kind of lawyer? She pointed at Cheng Yao, "Apart from her pretty face, what other advantages does she have? She doesn't even have a brain when she does things. Does such a famous law firm like yours only recruit people based on their looks? This kind of rubbish is how lawyers get in." The team? Backstage?" Wu Jie attacked viciously and indiscriminately, "Or is it that your law firms are all like this?"
…
She scolded some other things, but she had to say that a vicious woman like Wu Jie, when attacking people, was as ruthless and steady as hitting a snake.
Originally because of Cheng Yao and Qian Heng's love affair, Li Meng and his like had some opinions on Cheng Yao, but now they have lost the original evidence of the parties involved in the case. Once such a low-level but unbearable mistake happened, Wu Jie, the party involved, made a fuss. Everyone's suppressed emotions and gossip have begun to emerge again.
Cheng Yao's face was hot, feeling the probing eyes from all directions, Li Meng's contemptuous gaze, and the angry and elated look of the intern who was reprimanded by Liang Yiran that day.
Cheng Yao only felt that she was extremely fragile at this moment and needed Qian Heng extremely. However, he was not around, he and Bao Rui were still in Los Angeles, and even Tan Ying, who usually defended herself everywhere, went out of court because of something.
In such a large office area, even though Wang Lu and the others were trying their best to persuade Wu Jie, Cheng Yao only felt an indescribable loneliness in the eyes of other probing eyes.
Faced with such a scene, what else could she justify? Did you lose the IOU? But the IOU was indeed lost.
It's hard to say, roughly so.
Now this scene, I am afraid that in everyone's minds, I am not only incompetent, but also not successful enough to fail, which has lowered Junheng's notoriety.
Cheng Yao felt sour, endured the embarrassment and said: "Aunt Wu, I didn't handle this matter well, if you have anything to communicate, let's go to the conference room..."
"Who is your aunt?" Wu Jie was agitated. She had been arguing for a long time, and there was so much commotion that no one from the boss level came out. It is very clear that Cheng Yao has no authority to reduce or exempt her lawyer's fees, she has to go to the level of the boss.
"I can… "
Cheng Yao hadn't finished speaking, when she was unprepared, something hot was thrown on her face. After she realized it, she realized that it was Wu Jie's spilled tea from the desk beside her.
Because of her height, Wu Jie's tea could not be splashed on Cheng Yao's face, but only on her chest, but it was not splashed on her face, and it did not relieve Cheng Yao's embarrassment and embarrassment at all. To be scolded and treated so rudely in front of so many colleagues in the large office area, even the thick-skinned people would have a hard time with their self-esteem.
"Come on, Cheng Yao, wipe it off quickly." A group of people hurriedly pulled Wu Jie away, and Wang Lu handed Cheng Yao a tissue.
At this moment, the closed office door finally opened, and Liang still walked over with a face of not knowing what happened.
"What's the matter?" She had a puzzled expression on her face, and said in a low voice, "I was in a conference call just now, and I heard some movement here, what's going on?" She glanced at Cheng Yao in surprise, and immediately raised her voice. He raised his voice, "Who made Cheng Yao like this? If a client is causing trouble, don't you know to call the police?"
Cheng Yao didn't buy into Liang Yiran's talk on the conference call. The fake expression on her face was obviously intentionally sitting in the office and waiting for the situation to get out of control. However, her acting was really good. At this moment, it seems that, She is completely like a boss who protects his shortcomings, strong and majestic.
"We, Junheng, are not a vegetable market. You can achieve your goals by just rolling around. Legal services are professional services. You can bargain for a price instead of buying a bunch of green onions. If you have any opinions on our services and don't want to pay the lawyer's fees, please sue us. We welcome you. But if you want to maliciously renege on the debt, you are going to fight in front of experts. Whoever refuses to pay our legal fees, we will sue to the end."
After Liang Yiran's words, Wu Jie really stopped, but naturally she would not give up.
"Then ask your staff if they have lost all my original evidence?! Can't I question her work attitude? You shouldn't claim compensation for me?"
…
Like a competent and fair boss, Liang still asked Wu Jie a lot of questions, and once again let everyone listen to the story of Cheng Yao losing the original IOU.
"Lawyer Cheng won the lawsuit, and it didn't cause you any loss. We shouldn't need to make any compensation, and we don't need to refund any lawyer's fees. But it's our problem that we lost the original, but it's not Cheng Yao's fault. "Liang Yiran said righteously, "This should be my problem, because Cheng Yao is the lawyer I supervise. Although she handles the whole process of this case, I should be in charge of the overall guidance. If something like this happens, I The person who taught is to blame, not to mention the loss of the original document, which also shows that our Junheng has flaws in the internal process of client evidence management. Therefore, in order to express our apology for not being professional enough, your legal fees will be paid by me I will return it to you at my own expense."
As soon as she heard that the lawyer's fee could be waived, Wu Jie's mood really eased: "Although your lawyer is not decent, I think you are quite capable and reasonable." She glanced at Cheng Yao, "So , some young people really can't do it, Jiang is still old and spicy, look at your boss, how reasonable your speech is, how prudent you are, it's not like you, even the evidence is lost, and you are still holding on to the little money, not at all Retirement, business ability is a mess, but it is very shrewd when asking for money... "
Wu Jie won the victory with a smile on her face, but her mouth was not forgiving, and she muttered to Cheng Yao for a while, and then followed another assistant lawyer who was instructed by Liang Yiran to deal with the refund of legal fees up.
Liang Yiran's words not only protected Cheng Yao's face, but also had a sense of the overall situation, and resolved the dispute by sacrificing himself. Cheng Yao almost didn't need to think about it, but she also knew that everyone in the institute might have a higher opinion of Liang Yiran, and correspondingly, the evaluation of herself would only go from bad to worse.
Falling in love with Qian Heng, following Qian Hengshi's case source is very good, and the ability to handle cases is also excellent, but after changing the team and new boss, either there is no case before, or even a small case like Wu Jie can't handle it well. Even the original evidence was lost, and finally the parties came to make trouble...
Each of these details may not be enough to make people imagine, but together, they piece together another scene - no ability, only relying on golden thighs to get good grades, as soon as they leave the thighs, instantly Was beaten back to its original shape.
"Cheng Yao, make some tea and come to my office."
Liang Yiran's tone was gentle, but Cheng Yao knew that what he was about to face would not be gentle and light rain.
Sure enough, as soon as she entered the office, Liang Yiran put away that softness, and she glanced at Cheng Yao: "I know you and Qian Heng are in a passionate relationship, and he is not around recently, you may not be in a good state, but I hope You separate love from work, and don't let your personal emotions affect your work." Liang Yiran's tone sounded very earnest, "Girls, although love is very important, once you become a love brain, it will not be good for your future. …”
Cheng Yao endured her anger and embarrassment: "I haven't been distracted from work because of love." She paused every word, "I don't think that Wu Jie's case should be settled and her lawyer's fees should be waived. We are lawyers, and we are very careful. It is the contract, the law and the principle, and you should not shy away from the client if you are afraid of making trouble. Besides, I have a clear conscience in handling this case, and the result of the lawsuit has also won her the best interest. Now you directly refund the lawyer's fee for her. To be honest, I didn’t handle this case well at all.”
Liang still took a sip of tea: "But you lost the original IOU, and you are the responsible person. I don't want Wu Jie to keep making trouble in the law firm, which will affect your reputation and the work of colleagues in the office area. It’s going to make a big fuss, and according to the punishment system, you, as the responsible person, will be punished.”
Cheng Yao met Liang Yiran's eyes: "I did something wrong, and I am willing to bear the corresponding consequences, but I don't do anything wrong, and I don't want to be confessed. The loss of the IOU is completely inexplicable. Since you want to Punishment, let's investigate this matter together."
Faced with Cheng Yao's aggressiveness, Liang still kept his needles in his mind: "You said that the IOU was lost for no reason, but Cheng Yao, we are lawyers, and lawyers talk about evidence, otherwise we are shirking responsibility."
Cheng Yao had vague doubts in her heart, but it was just a matter of talk, without evidence, everything was useless. Junheng only has a probe at the entrance of the law firm to monitor people coming and going to the law firm, but not in the office area. For her, the current predicament is still unsolvable. She bit her lip and said nothing.
Liang Yiran's tone was a bit more serious: "I know you and Qian Heng are in love, but you should calm down and distinguish between the identities of girlfriend and employee, and don't think that you can mess around when you have Qian Heng. Heng, you are our employee first, so you still have to be serious about your work." Liang Yiran gave Cheng Yao a light look at this point, "Girls, you should be better yourself and work hard on your career instead of thinking about getting married. "
These words were obviously mocking herself, Cheng Yao bit her lips tightly and clenched her fists.
"Cheng Yao, how much older am I than you? I have a piece of advice for you. A good man will never want to marry a woman who is not good enough."
This kind of meaning has something to say, how could Cheng Yao not understand, Liang Yiran's tone was like a caring big sister, what she said had to be heard by a third person who didn't know why, and she only felt that she was sincere and could give advice to the younger generation without reservation , but Cheng Yao knew it was not.
The narrowness and sarcasm in Liang Yiran's eyes had reached the point of not hiding it. She went to the point, but there were some words that almost blurted out—
Think Qian Heng will marry you? dream.
At this moment, Cheng Yao's shame, indignation, embarrassment, embarrassment and aggrieved almost reached the peak. The disagreement with Qian Heng about marriage was finally pointed out mercilessly by Liang Yiran, and he threw it in front of Cheng Yao like an insult, making it impossible for her to escape.
If Qian Heng insists on not marrying DINK, can he continue to stay in Junheng and have a lifetime relationship with him like this? One year or two is fine, but what about seven or eight years? What about ten or twenty years
Aside from other people's cynicism and sarcasm, can I really accommodate him and suppress my true heart and not get married or have children
Originally Cheng Yao thought she could do it, but one day ago, Lin Fengjuan brought Han Han who had a successful operation to thank herself. When she was holding Han Han, looking at the soft and cute baby in her hands, Cheng Yao knew that she could not lie to herself.
She likes children.
like very much.
Even if she doesn't think about it now, one day in the future, she still wants a child of her own, a fleshy ball with bright eyes and chubby little hands.
She also wants a stable and warm marriage.
On this point, she and Qian Heng are completely different.