I regret becoming a lawyer at the age of 35.

I regret becoming a lawyer at the age of 35. I believe everyone has seen lawyers in TV dramas. Most people will think that lawyers are It is a profession with high salary, good benefits and good reputation, and everyone wants to become a lawyer. The following shares my regrets about becoming a lawyer at the age of 35. I regretted becoming a lawyer at the age of 35 1

When I decided to take off the judge’s robe and put on the lawyer’s robe, I experienced a lot of hesitation and struggle in my heart, and my working status changed from stable to unstable. For young lawyers, it is very stressful.

In my past work experience, I served in courts and political and legal committees. When dealing with lawyers, the endogenous power of the legal profession activated the passion in my heart and prompted me to enter the legal profession. Start enjoying the pain and happiness from scratch.

1. Perceive the market and quickly find the business field

After I changed my identity from a judge to a lawyer, I had to face a problem: How to quickly find my position? I started directing myself to discover more specific questions and work toward answers.

Judging from my past career as a judge, I can complete my work well as long as I concentrate on my business. However, in addition to being proficient in the business, lawyers also need to improve their reputation in the industry and establish their own influence and influence. brand.

After I found some ideas, I started to study around and explore my business positioning.

Suzhou, the city where I am located, has a developed private economy and more than 1 million market entities, so I position my business field as enterprise services. So the question is, how can I enter the entrepreneurial circle with little exposure to the business field?

Facing the problems that are coming one after another, I believe that there will always be solutions.

After leaving the court system, I sorted out the entrepreneur friends I knew, understood the potential legal risks of their companies and gave them reasonable plans. Gradually, several companies hired me to do legal work. Legal Counsel.

The early work was indeed tiring, and I thought about giving up more than once, but in order to find more possibilities for myself, I began to expand the channels through which I receive information.

By chance, I saw an article mentioning that lawyers’ brand promotion methods are “word-of-mouth, speeches, and writing articles.” Through various understandings, iCourt has systematic coaching and guidance specifically for lawyers to improve their work efficiency. training courses.

Through study, I mastered speech thinking and related skills. After a lot of deliberate practice, I began to boldly walk to the podium and make the audience like my speech. This experience was very helpful to my practice. big.

After returning to Suzhou, I tried to hold legal lectures in chambers of commerce and associations, where entrepreneurs are concentrated, to market myself by showing off my good professionalism. This kind of precision marketing has won me a number of customers.

When I felt that everything was going in a good direction, life suddenly poured cold water on me.

A certain consulting company was preparing to establish a new company. They asked me about the advantages and disadvantages of equity structure and tax comparison between natural person investment and legal person investment. I admitted in embarrassment that I did not know much about finance and taxation. The general manager looked disappointed. I still can't forget it.

After understanding the shortcomings of my business, I participated in the "Lawyer Finance and Taxation Special Training Camp" organized by iCourt, and systematically learned the identification and planning of corporate investment and financing financial and taxation risks, including accounting principles, financial statements, Equity structure design, etc.

This is the first time I came into contact with finance and taxation knowledge. I didn’t even understand some of the content. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to resume classes. Through the second and third resumption of classes, I gradually absorbed and mastered relevant knowledge.

Through a period of accumulation and practice, my business areas have expanded from simple contract review and labor compliance to equity structure design, tax planning, capital increase and shareholding, corporate mergers and acquisitions, etc., and I have continued to expand myself. The depth and breadth of services for enterprises.

In the process of helping companies solve legal problems, I try to use the information and resources I have at my disposal to provide resource integration services for entrepreneurs. Since I have helped companies solve practical difficulties and even helped some companies complete strategic adjustments, entrepreneurs have begun to regard me as their true friend and think tank.

2. Form a team and recruit young lawyers

As the business volume gradually increased, I formed my own team. I hope that the ideal state of the team is: the team helps members improve their abilities, makes them better, and becomes a platform for them to grow.

In the Internet age, technology drives legal progress, forcing me, a post-70s generation, to keep up with the times.

So I came to iCourt again to learn the skills that today’s lawyers must master, such as efficient legal retrieval, big data analysis, litigation visualization, and legal logic training. Through study, I have mastered how to use intelligent legal service tools to improve work efficiency, while optimizing my own thinking mode, and gained a lot.

During the two days of study, I saw that young people accounted for the majority in different classes. They are more likely to absorb new knowledge and are better at using new tools, which made me realize that " The sense of urgency that the waves behind push the waves ahead in the Yangtze River.

I tell the young lawyers on my team not to take the completion of the work assigned by me as the standard, but to follow the example of all young lawyers who are constantly learning and working hard, continue to consolidate the foundation of professional skills, and constantly update professional knowledge. Library, keep up with the development of the times, be good at using technical tools to improve work efficiency, and win the future practice competition.

The more important point is that I believe in young people and hope that the team can give them a broader space for growth. Under the premise of ensuring my own safety, I will let young lawyers develop freely and encourage them to achieve rapid growth with awareness of problems and results.

I will require young lawyers to build a business service process system, create multiple products such as corporate governance, contract management, labor and personnel management, and corporate legal risk prevention, strengthen knowledge management, and pass each work task Set up, improve, and guide them to continuously fill their "ability list."

3. Cross-border integration and building strategic layout

In the process of serving enterprises, we often encounter entrepreneurs asking about marriage and property inheritance. Question, based on the needs of customers, I also began to pay attention to the field of family wealth inheritance.

By chance, I learned about the public welfare project of the China Will Library. It is a free project for people over 60 years old to register wills and keep them for life. This is a public welfare undertaking that is beneficial to society and is also an outlet for family wealth inheritance business.

After returning to Suzhou, we began to prepare the Suzhou reservation point of the China Will Library, which was officially launched in October 2018. Later, the team of lawyers went to the streets and communities together, and conducted dozens of free legal knowledge lectures on inheritance for the community.

Today, the Suzhou Wuzhong Appointment Point of China Will Database has made wills for nearly a hundred elderly people for free. In the words of the elderly, you have solved my worries and done a great thing for us!

Due to the establishment of China Will Bank in Suzhou, many insurance, trust, and elderly care institutions have approached us, hoping to cooperate with us in the field of family wealth inheritance.

At this point, our team’s two strategic layouts of corporate services and family wealth inheritance have been completed. Its inherent business logic is enterprise-equity-entrepreneur-family wealth inheritance. Through cross-border combination and cross-field integration, I have a new orientation for my future career development.

After getting involved in the field of family wealth inheritance, I discovered that this field is very broad, covering family business equity distribution and inheritance, family business control, family business succession and cultivation, and the use of family trusts, insurance plans, wills, Tax planning realizes the isolation of marriage risks, family and business asset risks, and the preservation, appreciation and inheritance of family wealth.

Furthermore, because most family businesses involve factors such as domestic and overseas asset allocation, family member status, and foreign-related marriages, not only are the legal relationships complex, but they also require the participation of overseas professionals. Therefore, while team members are required to be versatile, the team also needs to have the ability to coordinate resources and institutions in all aspects.

Some people may say that this does not focus and will distract from the power. But in fact, when our team is large enough, business structure extension is not contradictory, but complementary to each other.

In the past three years of development, everything has not been smooth sailing for me, but mistakes and failures are the price of innovation, and they are allowed to appear. Everyone finds their own path through constant trial and error. position.

In the past three years, I sometimes doubted whether my choice was correct. In this journey of constant self-denial and error correction, I gained growth and won the trust of the team.

In this process, the most common thing that comes to mind is the sense of crisis. How to make myself stronger is a question I often think about.

For my future career, I hope to build an attractive and dynamic team assessment and distribution mechanism, organizational structure and talent echelon training model.

In addition, it is necessary to establish a family wealth inheritance service ecosystem, attracting practitioners from different fields and industries such as law, insurance, trust, notary, etc., to share knowledge, experience, service processes and text results. I regretted becoming a lawyer at the age of 35 2

I came to Hangzhou alone in 2008. I originally planned to take the civil service examination. When I was studying, my classmates were chatting together. Everyone wanted to be a lawyer, so I lied about wanting to be a civil servant. I took the exam again in 2008 and failed. At that time, most of my classmates who wanted to be lawyers became civil servants or worked as legal practitioners, but I was the only one who entered a law firm and worked as a paralegal.

In 2009, I was a trainee lawyer for one year and started practicing law. In the past few years, I have been worried about business, but I persevered. After a few years, the business gradually stabilized and I settled in Hangzhou. It’s a strange feeling considering how hard it was when you first arrived in Hangzhou.

Do you regret being a lawyer? Just like the lines in Wong Kar-Wai's movie "The Grandmaster": "How boring life would be if there were no regrets!" Now in his forties, many things have been opened up. Life is a constant choice, and there is no right or wrong. The roads are different, the scenery is different, and the harvest is different.

If you really regret it, it’s not that you regret choosing to be a lawyer, but that you didn’t understand life in the first few years as a lawyer, and you were always worried about the source of your case. Looking back on the results, I won’t be so worried, but how could I know it at the time?

Lawyers have relatively free working hours, and now they are becoming more and more accustomed to this relatively random working style, without having to commute to and from get off work on time. I can still play basketball while others are working, which is what makes me most happy. After working as a lawyer for several years, my business has become stable and my income is not bad. I can be considered well-off.

Many law firm directors I know let their next generation become lawyers. After all, those who can do it still think lawyers are good. Therefore, those who can insist on being a lawyer should not regret it; those who regret it may not persist in it. I regretted becoming a lawyer at the age of 35 3

I resigned from the civil service and worked as a lawyer for three years. Do you regret it?

Time flies by, and at the beginning of autumn again, three full years have passed since I resigned from public office to become a lawyer. If I count from the time I entered Xinjiang to take the civil service examination in June 2011, It has been ten years since then. Therefore, I have always wanted to calm down and summarize the past few years, especially since I resigned in July 2018. The past three years have been short and long. This year, I created a new company with my partners. At the law firm, everything is now on track. In any case, it can be regarded as a summary of the stages in life!

For me, 2018 is indeed an unforgettable year, because that year, when I was thirty years old, I gave up seven years of work and accumulation in the system. Choose to start from scratch and follow your heart.

I have been working for seven years and have worked in the Procuratorate for five years to become the backbone of the business. It is worthy of my diploma as a graduate of Southwest Political Science and Law. It has given me a certain accumulation in criminal legal practice, and I have become a lawyer later. Skills that enable a smooth transition while working in the Party Committee Organization Department for two years.

It made up for many shortcomings of me as a business cadre. From my own experience, I learned a lot during those two years and met a lot of very good people. I still remember that there was a sentence in the resignation report at that time that "[The benefits] are not superficial, but the benefits will last a lifetime."

As a foreigner, it is not easy to have the opportunity to be elected from a grassroots procuratorate to this higher-level party committee organization department that is generally considered to be very good. For this, I am very grateful to the few people who have recognized me. A colleague and boss, it was true that it was not until a few years after my resignation that I even bothered to formally treat them to a meal. I have always felt guilty about this.

Someone may ask, why would you resign from such a good company? I would like to quote the original words in my resignation report, which are of course true: "Because my parents are old and my mother is in poor health. No, my child is young and my family has financial difficulties. In order to better take care of my family, I am now applying to resign from public office." Yes, that’s right, the family is financially difficult. Because I was born in a rural area, my parents tried their best to support me as a college student. It is impossible for them to continue to support me financially. Faced with life in the city, everything It all costs money.

The monthly salary of about 3,000 yuan is really very tight, but the good thing is that the housing loan can be repaid with provident funds, otherwise it will be difficult to survive, let alone save. I used the money to buy a car, but at the time my wife was pregnant with their second child. Therefore, without any financial resources, I can only think about changes when I am poor. Resigning to make money became the biggest and most difficult decision I faced at that time.

Seven years of hard work and a good platform are the envy of many people. Once you resign, it means that all your efforts will be in vain and your career will be ruined. Inner struggle, long-term blindness, the future is still unclear, but the choice is to face the loss first. Those few months were the most tangled and painful time for me to grow up. Sometimes I couldn't let go, and sometimes I was unwilling to accept the reality. As for the last thing to keep talking to yourself, be yourself, and listen to your heart, if you want to gain, you must lose.

Finally, I made up my mind to report, communicate, strive for understanding and support, and was successfully approved. When the meeting was actually passed, I felt empty again. That feeling lasted for half a year after I entered the law firm. I felt that I had left the unit, no organization, no goal, no direction. Like a ship returning at night and suddenly losing the guidance of the lighthouse.

After resigning, I didn’t take a break. I went directly to the law firm and joined the criminal defense team led by lawyer Wu Bo to do some auxiliary desk work. Of course, this was all done before with Yu who had a similar background and also resigned to become a lawyer. Shengjie contacted me well, and fortunately, based on my business expertise accumulated from my previous work experience, I was offered a decent salary, which gave me a guarantee when I first entered the industry.

But the real difficulty and challenge lies in the change of role and the adjustment of mentality, because although lawyers have a good income, their social status is really not high, especially in the process of dealing with the public prosecutor and the law, they will indeed I often encounter many experiences that are difficult to express in words, and I will talk about these experiences later.

Each industry has its own characteristics and required abilities. This is the basic condition for being able to adapt and survive in an industry. The first thing you need to do is to adjust your mentality. No matter what you did before, when you become a lawyer, you have to adapt to the rhythm and working methods of the legal industry. The biggest advantage of working as a public official is that most of your work is to perform official duties and do things for the sake of official duties. At least there are very few people. They will give you a cold face or embarrass you.

In addition, with a relatively high social status, many things are easier to handle. But as a lawyer, it is different. What you represent are personal matters, in other words, they are all private matters. You have to Facing parties with various situations, cognitions, and demands, and various departments related to your case that need to be dealt with.

Therefore, we must face everything at work with a more tenacious and cumbersome mentality. This is something that must be cultivated. More importantly, we must learn to deal with the parties, be good at understanding and sympathizing with the difficulties and experiences they encounter, and do our best to provide them with the legal help we can.

The first thing I did after resigning was to buy a car. Being a lawyer is impossible without a car. As many people say, men just have to be cruel to themselves. Although I had no money at the time, plus It was less than 5,000 yuan, but I still took out a loan from the bank, borrowed some more money, and spent nearly 200,000 yuan to buy a car. To me at the time, it was a huge amount of money, because I believed , As long as you work hard, your future should be promising. Facts have proved that people only have motivation when they are under pressure.