Compared with the past, the current development of criminal business presents some new features.
First of all, the overall environment has changed more significantly. Criminal business is a complex and sensitive part in the field of litigation business. The change of external judicial environment and macro environment will affect the development of criminal business. In the past two years, anti-corruption and the establishment of a society ruled by law have provided a broader and more competitive market for the development of criminal business. The development of this market lies not only in the expansion of its scale, but also in the improvement of standardization.
On the one hand, public security organs, procuratorates and courts pay more attention to improving their own requirements in the process of handling criminal cases; On the other hand, lawyers, as defenders or litigation agents, have gradually improved their fit with the public security law. Personally, I understand that the trend in the past two years is that the public security law wants lawyers to participate more in criminal cases, which is a bit like "listening to both sides" and letting the judiciary hear more about the legitimate defense rights and reasons of criminal suspects or defendants. From this point of view, the change of the general environment provides a rare opportunity for the development of criminal business. At present, the procedural law is playing a more important role, and the cooperation between lawyers and public security organs has been significantly improved, and lawyers have gained more value recognition in society. The judiciary gradually weakened the concept of taking lawyers as the opposite, and promoted the common understanding and value standards of the legal circle through the interaction of individual cases.
Secondly, the criminal business market is more subdivided. In the course of handling cases in the past two years, we have noticed that the criminal business market is also changing quietly, which is gradually different from the traditional model in the past, and criminal lawyers have begun to focus on more subdivided markets. For example, in the fields of Internet, medicine and finance. For criminal lawyers, in addition to criminal law, they should also have some knowledge, and even have a deep understanding of the business model, operational characteristics and even technical characteristics in this field.
Furthermore, the service mode of criminal business has also changed significantly. In addition to the development of the above market segments, the legal service model has also changed to some extent compared with the past. Specifically, the current criminal business pays more attention to the "intensive cultivation" of lawyers. In the past, all we had to do was get the power of attorney, meet the parties, read the documents and prepare for the trial. Now we need to do it in detail. It's not just that we in Kindu have done this. In recent years, many colleagues have attached great importance to the improvement of their professional analysis ability and presentation ability, including further strengthening the research on evidence and the analysis of the case, and considering all aspects comprehensively, rather than simply grasping a defense point. Another change is the change from focusing only on innocent defense to diversified defense, such as adding sentencing defense and misdemeanor defense. The positive effects brought by this change are more obvious.
Jindu criminal business service center
Like other businesses of King & Wood, King & Wood's criminal business is based on a unified and comprehensive platform. We don't have heroes in criminal defense, we only have the mechanism to form heroic ability. We have talents from all fields at home and abroad, and can provide our customers with multilingual professional services. As far as criminal business is concerned, the crimes stipulated in the criminal law involve many fields, including securities, trusts, listed companies, high-tech enterprises, real estate, cross-border transactions, and pharmaceutical industries. When providing criminal business involving these fields, the criminal business team can quickly invite experts in this field, and the experts will directly cooperate with the handling of this business to provide customers with in-depth and professional criminal business services.
In addition, the criminal service products provided by King & Wood are more diversified. The criminal business we provide is not limited to criminal defense, but also involves many products such as criminal compliance, criminal crisis response, and the resolution of cross-cutting issues between criminal and civil affairs. Judging from the situation in the past two years, the proportion of business in the above-mentioned service products has far exceeded that in the field of defense and litigation.
Professional training of criminal lawyers
At present, a considerable number of well-known lawyers in society are criminal lawyers, because criminal lawyers are more likely to make people famous, and one or two sensitive cases may make headlines. So finding a few big cases may be the right choice to become a barrister. Personally, I understand that it is risky to become a barrister by several famous cases, but we still need to lay a solid foundation for criminal business. In the Internet age, information and knowledge are more flat, and customers can master some basic legal professional knowledge in a short time. Now they often meet clients who are more professional than lawyers.
When it comes to the artistry of criminal defense, such as the language, tone and method of defense lawyers explaining problems in court, these do have certain behavioral characteristics. In this sense, criminal defense is indeed an art, on the other hand, we should not excessively pursue the art of behavior, emphasize the elements of behavior, and ignore the understanding of evidence, facts and the law itself. Too much pursuit of the external and neglect of the internal, it is easy to go wrong. So I agree that at least 70% of my energy should be spent on my own career. In addition to your own career, you can also consult experts in language, clothing and etiquette to improve your self-cultivation.
It may not be easy to be an excellent criminal lawyer, but you must first be a lawyer trusted by the client. First of all, we must establish a belief in the law. Lawyers lack faith in the law and the parties lack confidence in the law. Secondly, to cultivate interdisciplinary ability, especially short-term learning ability, the parties can surpass lawyers through learning, and lawyers should try their best to maintain the ability to learn again. As mentioned earlier, criminal business is diverse and involves various fields. If you want to clarify the facts of the case, you must quickly master the corresponding background knowledge. Thirdly, to improve the ability of language expression, in the final analysis, the core problem that criminal lawyers need to solve is how to convince all judicial personnel and strive for favorable results for the parties. This persuasion work is closely related to language expression, logical thinking, control ability and reasoning ability. In addition, criminal lawyers should be particularly risk-conscious. High risk is a major feature of criminal business, and lawyers may face risks if they are not careful.
Some people worry that there may be natural obstacles to the development of female lawyers in the field of criminal business. Personally, I don't think gender will be an obstacle for a person to become an excellent criminal defense lawyer. Even in terms of expressive ability, female lawyers may have greater advantages. But if you want to be an excellent female criminal lawyer, you still need to overcome many difficulties. First of all, their physical weakness may make them face more pressure when they meet their clients or travel long distances. Secondly, the urgency of criminal cases may conflict with the commitment of family responsibilities, which may set obstacles for women's role transformation. At the same time, the seriousness of criminal cases will inevitably lead to certain psychological pressure on lawyers, which is why we will organize psychological counseling after some major cases to alleviate the pressure on lawyers. Of course, female lawyers can also engage in criminal non-litigation business, including criminal compliance business. Because of the relatively weak antagonism, it can also become one of the choice directions for female lawyers' career development. Starting from this year, we began to train interns with the "Gold Casting Program" and successively launched internal training programs for lawyers at different levels, hoping that every litigator can find the best path suitable for his own development.
Write it at the end
Justice has been pursued tirelessly since ancient times. Urbian, an ancient Roman jurist, defined justice as "the eternal will to make everyone get what he deserves." For legal practitioners, especially criminal lawyers, they are the embodiment of justice. In them, we should have the ideal of "the best in the world" and the feeling of "caring for others". On the one hand, we should punish the guilty by law, on the other hand, we should safeguard the legitimate interests of the infringed. Being a legal person should not only be a way to make a living, but also a pursuit beyond survival and utility.