On March 13-14, 2026, the 4th Legal Service Industry Brand Development Forum and the Law News Society 2026 Brand Ceremony, titled "Eastern Tides Surge to the World," were grandly held in Shanghai. This year's ceremony brought together more than 500 legal industry leaders from all over the country and overseas, including law firm managers, senior partners, renowned experts and scholars, corporate law presidents, and industry organization leaders. They conducted in-depth discussions and peak dialogues on core issues of the times, such as the legal protection of Chinese enterprises going global, the quality and efficiency of law firm management, and the high-quality development of the industry. At the grand ceremony, the heavyweight research results of the Law News Society in 2025, the "Report on the Development of Excellent Brands in Chinese Law Firms (2025)" and the "Guidelines for the Influence of Excellent Brands in Law Firms (2025)", were officially released, and the "Law News Society 2025 Annual Wind and Cloud List" series of professional awards were simultaneously announced.

Gaopeng Law Firm, with its outstanding brand value, good customer reputation, and extensive social influence, has successfully been selected for the "Guide to Excellent Brand Influence of Law Firms (2025)" and won two heavyweight law firm awards, "Top 100 Law Firms with Excellent Brand Influence in 2025" and "Top 30 Law Firms with Rising Brand Influence in 2025", from the Law News Society. At the same time, in the "Law News Society Annual Wind and Cloud List" selection, Lawyer Sun Meiyan, Senior Partner of Gaopeng Law Firm, was awarded the "Top 30 Outstanding Female Lawyers of 2025", and Lawyer Zhang Mengru was awarded the "Top 40 Elite Lawyers (under 40 years old) of 2025", fully demonstrating Gaopeng Law Firm's comprehensive brand strength and fruitful achievements in professional talent development.

Selection criteria: This award is aimed at high-quality law firms with professional strength and comprehensive influence ranking among the top in the industry. With outstanding professional capabilities, complete business layout, and standardized management and operation, it will continue to improve its brand awareness, professional recognition, and social reputation by 2025, becoming a benchmark for high-quality development in the industry with outstanding brand influence.

Selection criteria: This award is aimed at law firms that have achieved significant brand building results and breakthrough industry influence by 2025. Its scale, brand awareness, professional recognition, and industry reputation in law firms have significantly increased compared to previous years, forming distinct brand characteristics and core competitiveness.

Selection criteria: This award is aimed at outstanding female legal practitioners with outstanding performance. They have a solid professional foundation and provide high-quality and efficient legal services to clients with outstanding professional abilities. In 2025, they will adhere to the original intention of the rule of law, abide by professional ethics, demonstrate responsibility and accountability with professional strength, and fully demonstrate the professional style and strength of female lawyers in the new era.

Selection criteria: This award is aimed at young legal talents under the age of 40 who have solid professional skills and excellent comprehensive abilities. In 2025, they will deeply cultivate their professional fields, have solid business capabilities, outstanding case handling performance, and be deeply trusted by customers. They are brave in innovation and have become excellent examples of young elites in the legal service industry with a pragmatic and enterprising professional style.

The "China Law Firm Excellent Brand Development Report (2025)" and "Law Firm Excellent Brand Influence Guide (2025)" released at this year's ceremony are industry heavyweight achievements formed by the Law News Society Research Center through multi-dimensional in-depth research and systematic research. The "Guide" is based on the four force index model of "brand ecology, brand evaluation, brand activity, and brand recognition" of law firms, as well as more than 100 secondary indicators, and is comprehensively evaluated from multiple dimensions such as expert review and customer feedback. It comprehensively demonstrates the excellent development path of China's high-quality brand law firms; The report achieved significant breakthroughs on the basis of continuing the brand influence evaluation system, and for the first time launched systematic regional research results. It deeply analyzed the development trends of the legal ecosystem and legal service market in various provinces, core cities, and seven major regions across the country, providing authoritative industry insights and practical references for the branding, professionalization, digitization, and internationalization development of the legal industry.

This time, Gaopeng Law Firm and several lawyers have won multiple heavyweight honors, which is not only a comprehensive recognition and affirmation of Gaopeng's professional service capabilities, brand building achievements, and comprehensive industry influence by the industry and market, but also a high praise for Gaopeng's firm culture of "integrity and professionalism" that has been adhered to for nearly 30 years since its establishment, and its commitment to the path of professional, standardized, and branded development.

At present, the globalization development of Chinese enterprises has entered a new stage of "going global", and the construction of foreign-related rule of law has become the core support for high-level opening up to the outside world. The legal service industry is entering a critical transformation period from scale expansion to quality and efficiency leap, and from local deep cultivation to global layout. In the future, Gaopeng Law Firm will continue to uphold the professional and efficient service concept, deeply cultivate core professional fields, continuously improve the full chain legal service system, strengthen brand building and talent development, and provide clients with comprehensive and high-quality legal services with solid professional skills. At the same time, Gaopeng will actively embrace new trends in industry development, deeply participate in the construction of foreign-related legal ecology, and grow in synergy with industry colleagues, providing protection for Chinese enterprises' "going global" and continuously contributing professional strength to promote the construction of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics.