Tongxin New Painting · Interview Series | Issue 2- Dialogue with Chen Wenwei, Director of Gaopeng (Shanghai) Law Firm

Interview Record
Q: Establishing a sound business team working mode and a meticulous case process management system is of great significance for ensuring efficient and high-quality legal services for clients. The Shanghai office lawyer team is efficient and has performed well in integrated management. As the head of the Shanghai office, you must have a profound understanding of team and business management. Please share your insights.
Answer: The customer's demand is to be able to obtain and enjoy high-quality legal services in a timely manner, to ensure that they can receive quick and effective solutions when facing various legal issues. These services not only require professionalism and accuracy, but should also meet the urgent needs of clients in terms of time, thereby helping them to occupy a favorable position in legal affairs and reduce unnecessary losses and risks.
The demand for legal services often has a certain degree of contingency, suddenness, and specificity, because the timing and timing of legal affairs are often constrained and influenced by many external factors. Meanwhile, the scope of the case is usually very broad, covering various legal fields and issues. Especially when the number of customers accumulates to a certain extent, in order to efficiently meet their needs, we must consider and build our team from the following two key dimensions:

为了保证业务的顺利进行,首先要建立一支成为业务骨干的基础业务团队。该团队通常由一位全权负责业务方向和决策的领导者领导。此外,团队应包括1至2名合作伙伴,他们协助领导者管理团队,并在业务中提供关键的支持和指导。团队的核心成员还应包括2至5名律师,他们直接处理客户的日常法律事务,并提供基本的法律服务。为了确保高效工作,法律助理也是必不可少的。他们将协助律师完成大量的基础工作,如数据整理、文件起草等。
然而,仅仅依靠这个核心团队仍然是不够的。为了满足客户的多样化需求,还需要与其他专业人士建立密切的合作关系,包括内部合作伙伴、律师和外部公司。此外,法律专家、会计师事务所和调查公司也是重要的合作伙伴。他们在特定领域的深入研究和独特见解是我们处理复杂法律问题的宝贵资源。

The management of the core team mainly covers two aspects:
1. Establish a reasonable salary, reward, and benefit distribution mechanism
Establishing a reasonable allocation mechanism is crucial to ensure the stability and development of the team. This mechanism must ensure the rationality and fairness of allocation, although it may sound simple, it will actually encounter many difficulties in the implementation process. Many teams often encounter problems due to flaws in their profit distribution mechanisms. Especially in the legal industry, business income is influenced by various factors such as market fluctuations, case complexity, and customer satisfaction. Therefore, the benefit distribution mechanism cannot remain unchanged and must be adjusted in a timely manner according to the actual situation.
The team leader must maintain an objective and fair attitude when formulating and adjusting the benefit distribution mechanism. It is necessary to have a deep understanding of the contributions and efforts of each team member and allocate them reasonably based on these factors. This not only requires keen insight, but also a high sense of responsibility and fairness. Sometimes, team leaders even need to sacrifice their own interests to ensure the maximization of team benefits. This selfless spirit and loyalty to the team are key to ensuring the long-term stable development of the team.
2. Establish unified business processing and management standards
In terms of project management, we have developed a comprehensive system for business processing and project progress management, with clear pre -, during -, and post reporting systems, allowing clients to stay informed of the latest developments in the project at any time. In addition, we have established a pre notification system for case risks to ensure that clients can fully understand the potential risks they may face during the case handling process and make informed decisions. The purpose of all these standards is to provide clients with a clear understanding of how the legal team will handle specific matters and at what time. In this way, not only can the legal team have a clear understanding, but the client can also have a clear understanding of the entire case handling process.
In terms of business processing, we will have experienced partners personally responsible for strengthening training, conducting strict audits and guidance within the first two to three years of lawyers joining the team to ensure that every task meets our professional requirements. When the team encounters difficult cases, partners will lead internal discussions and gather the wisdom and experience of the group team members to ensure that the final recommendations provided to clients are thoroughly discussed and scrutinized.
Q: You started to push the legal event book to customers as early as 2007, and in 2017, you set up a personal official account "Classical Speech" to conduct legal analysis on social hot issues and judicial cases; Later, in 21 years, a column of Law Popularization Weekly was opened on the official official account of the firm to publicize the legal issues that may be involved in daily life, which has a good reputation and popularity among customers and readers. Please share your initial intention and future plans for opening a column.
Answer: One of the original intentions of setting up a column is to systematically organize and deeply summarize various cases that I handle and solve in my daily work. This not only helps to review and reflect on one's past work, but also extracts valuable experiences and lessons from it.
Specifically, I will provide a detailed description of the background, handling process, and final solution for each case in the column, and conduct in-depth analysis of the key issues in each case. I will conduct in-depth analysis of inspiring, representative, and informative cases from a legal perspective, interpret relevant laws and regulations in detail, analyze legal issues in the cases, and explore how to apply this legal knowledge in practical operations.
I hope to reveal some universally applicable principles and rules through sorting and summarizing these cases, so as to provide readers with a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding. At the same time, we also hope to provide readers with practical suggestions and guidance to help them better understand and master legal knowledge, and to provide reference and inspiration when facing similar problems, in order to improve their ability to deal with legal issues in daily life and work.

From the original email to today's official account, these carefully selected case studies are delivered to readers in different forms. Despite changes in communication methods, the core content and purpose remain consistent, which is to always focus on the issues that customers are concerned about in their daily business, provide cases that customers are interested in, and provide practical references and suggestions for our corporate clients and readers.
In order to ensure high-quality output of column articles, I will strictly screen the selection of topics and content to ensure that each article closely fits the actual needs and concerns of the client. When analyzing legal disputes, strive for simplicity and clarity, hit the nail on the head, succinctly explain difficult legal disputes, and based on this, propose constructive suggestions and solutions. Although time and subject matter constraints often put pressure on me, I still adhere to high standards and strict requirements, striving to ensure that each article meets the established standards of the column.
In the past decade, I have always adhered to this principle and have never lowered my requirements for columns. No matter how the future communication methods change or how technology advances, my pursuit of depth and quality in column content remains unchanged. I believe that only by continuously providing high-quality content can we truly earn the trust and respect of readers.
Q: Under your leadership, the comprehensive business team of Japanese companies has demonstrated outstanding performance and outstanding performance. You undoubtedly have accumulated rich experience and unique insights in team management and business promotion. We look forward to you sharing some valuable insights and feelings with us.
Answer: Gaopeng Japan Enterprise Comprehensive Business Team is composed of nearly ten senior lawyers and is a professional legal team providing comprehensive legal services.
The team members have graduated from well-known universities both domestically and internationally, possessing profound legal knowledge and rich practical experience. They are proficient in Chinese, Japanese, and English as their working languages and can provide efficient, accurate, and diversified legal services to clients in different language environments. At the same time, in order to better meet customer needs, the business department has offices in multiple locations, covering major economic centers in China. This layout enables us to quickly respond to customers' legal needs and provide timely legal support.

Gaopeng Japan Enterprise Comprehensive Business Department provides legal advisory services and specialized legal services to multinational enterprises all year round, accumulating rich experience in multiple fields such as foreign investment, mergers and acquisitions, anti unfair competition, anti-monopoly, labor and personnel. With a professional, efficient, diligent and dedicated work attitude, it has won widespread praise and trust from clients.
With the continuous changes in the economic environment and the continuous updating of laws and regulations, in the future, the business department will closely monitor domestic and international legal developments, always maintaining a high degree of sensitivity and foresight. At the same time, we will continue to adhere to the service concept of "people are upright and business is refined", and provide more high-quality and comprehensive legal services for foreign enterprises to "enter" and Chinese enterprises to "go out" with a more open, inclusive, and innovative attitude.
We look forward to becoming a bridge connecting more domestic and foreign enterprises, promoting global economic integration and exchange. We also look forward to exploring new business models and cooperation opportunities with more customers and partners, jointly creating a new situation of global cooperation, and making the results of cooperation benefit a wider range of social groups, painting a colorful picture of global development.
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