Qi Xi quickly settled the private work expenses of the legal translation, and after paying off Gu Yan's money, she quickly paid the balance of the rock music ticket, and got the physical ticket swiftly.
Gu Xuehan was also vigorous and resolute. The next afternoon, she managed to free up time and invited Cheng Junliang to the competition office—
"Since Gu Yan and Qi Xi have decided to take your case, then you are a client of the Co-opetition Firm. As Gu Yan and Qi Xi's tutoring lawyers, I also want to meet and communicate with you."
Cheng Junliang didn't expect that he could alert the partners of the competition and cooperation firm to come out, his face was full of fear and embarrassment.
Gu Xuehan was beautiful and imposing, Cheng Junliang seemed to dare not even look at him directly, his face was blushing, and he stuttered a little: "Gu, hello, lawyer Gu."
"Gu Yan communicated with you about his plan before."
"Yes, it is… "
Gu Xuehan chuckled: "This plan needs to be overturned. You need to admit to the person that you lost the original IOU."
Cheng Junliang was stunned for a moment: "Is there a better plan after admitting it?"
"No." Gu Xuehan pursed her lips, "Admitting that you have lost the original document will indeed take responsibility."
Cheng Junliang was a little confused now: "Then..."
"As a lawyer, especially a newcomer like you, you may not be sophisticated enough in your business or experienced enough in dealing with problems, but the first thing you must learn is to take responsibility. This is the most basic professional ethics of a lawyer."
Gu Xuehan's expression was serious and serious: "It's not terrible to lose the original, what's terrible is that you don't want to take responsibility. It is true that you can escape responsibility by exploiting loopholes in legal evidence, but ordinary people can do this. As lawyers, we are not suitable for this made."
Gu Xuehan looked at Cheng Junliang: "This is the starting point of your practice. You can't even afford your own mistakes, so how can you bear the various disputes and problems of your clients? How can you bear the pressure and responsibility of each case? How do you gain the trust of your customers?"
In one word, not to mention Cheng Junliang's blushing face, even Qi Xi was too ashamed. After all, she came up with this idea cleverly. Now that Gu Xuehan said it, she became more and more aware that it was inappropriate.
Cheng Junliang was a little at a loss for words, but he still struggled and said: "The main... The main thing is that I really have no choice. I originally wanted to admit my mistakes to my client and make amends, but she didn't cooperate. She was determined to blackmail me. If I admit that I lost I got an IOU, and she will definitely ask me to pay the 120,000 yuan. This is really not a figure I can bear... "
"Admitting mistakes does not mean taking responsibility for things other than your own mistakes." Gu Xuehan glanced at Qi Xi and Gu Yan, "As lawyers, we all have lawyers' professional liability insurance. If economic losses are caused, the economic compensation liability that should be borne according to the law can be compensated by the insurance company. The competition will purchase this insurance for all lawyers or trainee lawyers who join the company, and under normal circumstances, your law firm will also purchase it for you.”
Cheng Junliang's eyes lit up with the statement of lawyers' liability insurance, but soon darkened again. He murmured, "But I'm a small firm, not very formal, so I might not buy it for me..."
Gu Xuehan said unhurriedly: "Even if you didn't buy it for the trainee lawyer, your tutoring lawyer must have bought it. Although the tutoring lawyer has completely entrusted you to handle this case, as a trainee lawyer, you can't practice independently. Therefore, it is also signed by a lawyer, so legally speaking, this is a joint case between you and him. As his assistant, if your negligence caused the original document to be damaged, you may be liable for financial compensation, and his professional insurance can cover it. Most of the."
Gu Xuehan blinked her eyes: "The amount of 120,000 is not large. Under normal circumstances, lawyers' professional liability insurance can fully pay for it. Use the worst solution like online loans to solve it.”
Not to mention that Cheng Junliang opened his eyes wide, even Qi Xi and Gu Yan were a little surprised. They never thought about this road at all, and never thought that lawyers have professional liability insurance.
Gu Xuehan saw the expressions on the faces of several people, she naturally understood, she glared at Gu Yan a little angrily: "You must be complacent when you came up with the previous method, thinking that you are too smart? Why don't you think about other things? Humans make mistakes, and admitting mistakes and bearing the consequences is not as bad as you think. High-risk professions such as lawyers and doctors have corresponding professional liability insurance coverage.”
Even so, Cheng Junliang still hesitated: "But... But I'm afraid that if I talk about this with the tutoring lawyer, my job will be lost, and if I need to use his professional liability insurance, if I get out of danger, I will lose my job. , it will have some impact on his subsequent insurance premiums, after all, I implicated him... "
Cheng Junliang's words successfully made Gu Xuehan raise her eyebrows: "As long as you can transfer your guilt towards the tutoring lawyer to your client, you won't want to evade responsibility as much as before."
Gu Xuehan recovered her serious expression, and looked at Cheng Junliang: "No matter what your customer's follow-up operation is, whether you have the intention of blackmailing you, at least you lost the original IOU first, you should still feel guilty towards your customer, because You can't test people's hearts, because you gave her the opportunity to blackmail you; but your tutoring lawyer is not innocent. First, he didn't warn you about the risks, and he didn't tell you that you must never accept the original documents from the client; second, , Because he underestimated the case, he thought it was too small and too simple, so he didn't come to follow up during the process, and left it all to you, the trainee lawyer."
Cheng Junliang was still very cramped, his fingers were stirring his sleeves nervously.
Gu Xuehan's tone was very calm, but her words carried weight: "The tutoring lawyer is half a master, and he should give you advice. After all, once a law firm is divided into divisions, the tutoring lawyer is responsible for his subordinates. Trainee lawyers get a cut of their case income, and you have to share the case money with the other party. Does the other party want to just take the money and not take responsibility? There is such a good thing in the world?"
Facing Cheng Junliang's hesitant look, Gu Xuehan chuckled knowingly: "I know what you're thinking, I think you've offended your boss like this, but a trainee lawyer should have the responsibility of a trainee lawyer, and a boss should also have the responsibility of the boss. Otherwise, why is he worthy of being the boss?"
Cheng Junliang seemed to be moved by the persuasion, and finally mustered up the courage to say: "Then Lawyer Gu, can you help me communicate..."
Since Gu Xuehan decided to take this case, as a lawyer, she could indeed communicate with Cheng Junliang who had changed his identity as a client, but to Qi Xi's surprise, Gu Xuehan refused.
"No, you need to communicate with yourself first."
Cheng Junliang's complexion really fell.
"I know it's difficult, but as a lawyer, as a person, there are many things that you have to bite the bullet and do in life, and you have to bear the responsibility even if you are ashamed. If you want to keep this work, then you should first inform your teaching lawyer and communicate with him. First, this is respect for the other party, and it can also show the sincerity of recognizing your own mistakes. Second, do you also treat your What if your leading lawyer presupposes that you are the opposite? After he knows this, he will probably choose the same way of handling it as me. You don’t even need my follow-up intervention at all.”
Gu Xuehan was very earnest this time: "Cheng Junliang, since you have chosen to join the team that teaches lawyers, you should also respect and trust this team. Lawyers can solve many disputes, but they cannot solve all disputes, because people The relationship with people is already very delicate, I will take your case, and there will be no charge, but you need to communicate with the tutoring lawyer to no avail, and the other party refuses to help you solve it."
…
Cheng Junliang was given an ultimatum in the end. Although it was very difficult, he finally strengthened his confidence in Gu Xuehan's eloquence, and decided to face the first major mistake in his practice career, and confess everything to his teaching lawyer first. Then discuss how to deal with this matter.
**
As soon as Cheng Junliang left, Gu Xuehan didn't let Qi Xi and Gu Yan leave the office immediately.
Gu Xuehan tapped on the table with her fingers: "I can think that the other party has no evidence to prove that Cheng Junliang lost the original IOU. Twenty thousand."
"But not everything in life can be solved with legal thinking. The law is dead, but people's hearts are alive. As lawyers, we must not be vigilant about this. Don't always simplify anything into legal case analysis. Question. A really good lawyer must be humane and able to understand how to act as a client, so you have to experience it. The more humane and worldly you have experienced, the better."
When Gu Xuehan said this, she smiled: "You two are young, you need to get in touch with all kinds of people. The Lawyers Association here happens to be doing an event recently, and each law firm needs two people, a man and a woman, You guys can go in the afternoon, I will give you leave, get in touch with the society more, and build a good relationship with the teachers of the Lawyers Association, there is no harm."
The Lawyers Association does organize a lot of activities every year, such as the Constitution Awareness Day, lawyers' sympathy group, community law popularization, etc. Qi Xi is quite happy to participate, but she did not expect that these lawyers' activities have nothing to do with the above.
In the afternoon when Qi Xi and Gu Yan arrived at the Lawyers Association for a meeting, listening to the tasks arranged by the teachers of the Lawyers Association this time, they felt that the first two big—
"This time we need to shoot several legal promotion videos, in which there is a reenactment of the case that requires each law firm to produce 'extras', so now that everyone is gathered here, we will use the law firm as a unit, in groups of two, Each group will receive a complete script of the case, and finally will make a short video, which is convenient for publicity. I hope that everyone will go back and use their spare time to recite the lines and compare the scenes, and we will arrange the shooting according to the schedule."
Qi Xi thought that this was probably just an ordinary law-enhancing activity, but when she got the script, she was dumbfounded.
Some of the "extras" assigned by law firms were selected for housing lease disputes, some for private lending disputes, and Qixi...
What Qi Xi and Gu Yan got was an emotional and marital dispute, which was rich in elements and involved in the breadth of the law, Qi Xi was simply dumbfounded——
"Xiaogang's family is rich, and he pursues the beauty Xiaoya hard. He confesses his love every day, harasses him all the time, and takes the initiative to give gifts. He also proposes that once Xiaoya and himself fall in love and get married, they can name their children and Xiaoya's surname in the house. Xiaoya is very moved, and then He chose to reject Xiaogang. Xiaogang was stimulated, and because of drinking before confessing his courage, he lost his mind when he was drunk, and raped Xiaoya. After the incident, Xiaogang knelt down and begged for mercy, and finally succeeded in pua Under coercion and temptation, Xiaoya talked about "love" with him, and married Xiaogang, but after marriage, Xiaoya fell in love with her neighbor Xiaowang for a long time. The relationship between people eased after Xiaoya gave birth to a child, but... "
Qi Xi didn't even need to think about it, she flipped through the outline of the script, and as expected, her guess was verified: "However, the child belongs to Xiao Wang... So Xiao Gang sued Xiao Ya for divorce and asked for compensation for mental damage. There was a fierce dispute over the maintenance fee, and in the end, because of love and hatred, Xiao Gang stabbed Xiao Ya to death and paid the legal price... "
…
Probably in order to get closer to life and spread more easily, this ups and downs bloody plot is accompanied by lines full of shame, and the script also marked the exaggerated body movements that need to be shown...
Just when Qi Xi was dumbfounded, a staff member from the Lawyers Association came over with caring eyes and said, "Are you two in competition? You also have a neighbor Xiao Wang in this script, and we will find another lawyer to play a cameo role at that time." , but the highlight is still Xiaoya and Xiaogang, you two should act well."
Qi Xi struggled and said: "Teacher, can we change the book? This book is too complicated, we may be too young to act that way..."
"No, no, this script was written by our director himself for three days and three nights. It combines civil disputes, criminal disputes, and various elements of public security punishment. She has no other requirements, she must find handsome men and beautiful women to act, you guys The two are the most handsome among the group of extras, and they were hand-picked by our director to be performed by you, and you are Xiaoya." The staff member of the Lawyers Association smiled and looked at Gu Yan with a kind face Said, "You are Xiao Gang."
"Xiao Gang" didn't read the script and didn't know what he was facing. With a calm and calm face, he nodded to the teacher of the Lawyers Association.
"Gu Yan, I think it's better for you to read the script before agreeing..."
Gu Yan was probably too young and naive, and he didn't take it seriously: "How difficult can it be? It's just a reenactment of the case, just go through the scene casually, and the Lawyers Association can't offend. This time let us act The director of the Lawyers Association wrote the script himself, and we performed it well, which will definitely add points to the competition and cooperation."
…
A quarter of an hour later, Gu Yan stared at the script with a look of wanting to die—
"I can't keep acting."
Qi Xi kindly persuaded: "The Lawyers Association can't offend. Because this is the director's project and it's their focus. Let's rehearse first, and they will come to rehearse later."
Gu Yan stared at the script, already feeling hopeless.
This unrequited love was fully reflected in the rehearsal—
"Xiaoya, I like you."
Gu Yan looked at Qi Xi with a dry voice: "You should follow me, otherwise, woman, you are playing with fire. Now I have an ancestral chromosome to give to you. Don't be ignorant."
Not to mention that he didn't play Xiaogang's evil charm at all, Gu Yan's confession also sounded emotionless, as if he was paying off debts.
But when he said these lines in such a deadpan voice, Qi Xi didn't collapse, and laughed like a dick.
"No, no, no, no! NG! NG!" Qi Xi couldn't hold back, and shouted to stop Gu Yan's soulless performance, "This is not okay, Xiao Gang's character is designed to love crazy demons, he should be very emotional, just now the Lawyers Association The teacher said that the director wrote the lines, which are relatively simplified, but as a deduction, you can fully expand and play freely. For example, when expressing your confession, you need to enrich your vocabulary, express it with love and affection, and be crazy about love When it comes to time, you have to really put yourself in the paranoia and pain that you can't ask for!"
Gu Yan looked at Qi Xi indifferently, with an unteachable look on his face: "Then what else should I add?"
Gu Yan is worthy of being Gu Yan, so he can memorize such bloody and tortuous lines in no time, but... it's just that the interpretation is too careless!
"Although it's the task of the Lawyers Association, it's definitely not going to work out like this. How about it, Gu Yan, you can substitute it in. Didn't you like that girl before and didn't catch up? Although you are definitely not as extreme as this Xiaogang, but put yourself in the position , how much can you understand the pain of not being able to love?"
Qi Xi blinked: "So when confessing, substitute your love for her and think of me as her. If you confess to her, what else do you want to say besides liking you? How would you do it like this? Baba's emotions say?"
Speaking of this, Qi Xi also paused: "Sorry, I forgot to confirm, do you still like her?"
Ever since Qi Xi mentioned the girl Gu Yan liked, Gu Yan lowered his eyes and became silent, and it was not until Qi Xi asked this question that Gu Yan raised his head.
He looked straight into Qi Xi's eyes.
Just when Qi Xi thought he didn't want to answer, Gu Yan opened his mouth—
"Still likes."
Gu Yan's voice was a little soft, and after he finished speaking, he turned his head away, as if he couldn't face Qixi, and it seemed he couldn't face himself.
At this moment, Gu Yan's expression was still calm and indifferent, but there was a slight wrinkle between his brows. Although he hid it well, Qi Xi still noticed the small frustration in his emotions.
It should be frustrating.
Even if the other party doesn't like me, he still loves the other party hopelessly.
Qi Xi had never experienced this kind of feeling before, but at this moment, looking at Gu Yan's brows and eyes that seemed to be covered in mist and looked as distant as Daisy, he suddenly felt slightly envious and jealous.
What a girl, such good luck.
Gu Yan has never talked about it even for a day, but Gu Yan is still so determined.
Qi Xi took a deep breath, shook off the messy thoughts in his mind, and looked at Gu Yan again: "Then you think of me as her, let's do it again."
Qi Xi didn't expect Gu Yan to be more involved, but this time, when Gu Yan raised his head to look into her eyes, and only looked into her eyes, Qi Xi suddenly became flustered.
She didn't seem to be ready to look at Gu Yan like this.
"I like you, even if I just look at you silently, accompany you silently, even if I know you don't like me, I still want to be by your side. Even if I want to stay away from you, even if I tell myself to start a new life, it seems that no matter what I can't forget you, you always appear in front of me."
Gu Yan's tone was calm, without showing much emotion, only the last sentence, with a little angry but helpless feeling of a young man.
I don't know why, being looked at by such a pair of eyes, and hearing such a plain but straightforward confession, Qi Xi's heart suddenly jumped wildly.
It seemed that Gu Yan was confessing his love to her.
When she mistakenly thought that she had received Gu Yan's confession letter at the graduation ceremony before, Qi Xi didn't really feel much, but at this moment, she was suddenly so nervous that she couldn't know what to do—
It turned out that this was what Gu Yan confessed.
It turned out that Gu Yan's face-to-face confession was like this.
And there was someone who could refuse Gu Yan.
Qi Xi's heart was full of indescribable emotions, with a kind of dampness like spring rain, as if mixed with the sultry heat and irritability of early summer.