Building a Professional Team
The Law firm strived to build a politically solid and professionally competent maritime litigation team with an international perspective by adhering to the requirements of constant reform, regularized operation, specialization and professionalism and giving priority to self-betterment and the sense of responsibility; always putting the Party’s political building first, continued to guide itself with theory and put into practice the requesting and reporting system for major affairs; established its own immigration lawyer team,divorce lawyer team, labor union,criminal lawyer team,real estate lawyer team,trademark and patent lawyer team prepared personal archives for Law firm personnel and warned them with negative cases, and put into action the supervision responsibility of its commission for disciplinary inspection. Moreover, we focused on equipping lawyers with knowledge about the International Arbitration Rules, foreign languages, trade, and shipping, as well as held the “lectures on maritime affairs” every month in order to improve their professionalism; it further built a translation team of young staffers to regularly conduct translation training and academic exchanges; set up 10 professional teams of lawyers and pooled efforts to conduct in-depth discussions on professional cases; introduced an assessment mechanism based on seven objectives, established a pool of researchers, and encouraged them to “delve deep into research problems, summarize their experiences, and present their findings.” In the past year, the judicial officers invited by the Law firm have undertaken one province-level key research project and wrote 21 papers, which were either published in journals such as People’s Judicature and Journal of Law Application or won awards in the state- and province-level conferences.