Research On Countermeasures For Expansion And Specialization Of Law Firms

The problems of law firms' expansion, specialization, standardization, branding and internationalization always puzzle Chinese bar; and to solve the above-mentioned problems needs great intelligence, courage and efforts. Although many people in the academic world and lawyers have raised those problems, but there are only a few people who can give creative, practical and forward-looking suggestions. In view of this, it is impossible for the author to have an overall discussion on those problems in the essay, so he focused on expansion and specialization, and lays aside the regular thought—problem-discovering and problem-solving, only to do research on the most urgent problems and put forwards their countermeasures.Besides the preface and the conclusion, there are three chapters.Chapter One introduces the expansion and specialization of law firms and strengthens the training of lawyers. The part holds that we can improve our teaching methods in law by learning from tutorial system of England's law education, case-teaching method of America, and lawyers' practice system of Macao to perfect our related systems on lawyers, and we can improve training methods for lawyers, encourage lawyers to stress self-taught and master research methods.Chapter Two, centered on expansion of law firms, directly explains the countermeasures, including break in form in legislation, taxation support, training of advanced managerial personnel, culture creation, forms of expansion and standard management. The part proposes making experiments and making law firms' organizational form corporationalized; we should reduce taxation and separately apply it, train and employ strategic advisors, managerial advisors and professional managers, and give evaluation to culture of law firms. It discussed forms of expansion, such as interior expansion, merger, net alliance and grouping, and legal system in credit, talents mechanism for lawyers, service standards and other related systems.Chapter Three, centered on the specialization of law firms, directly points out its countermeasures, including strengthening training of lawyers, improving quality of lawyers, developing job skills and increasing behavior of law firms. It also points out that lawyers should have faith and belief, can communicate and cooperate with others, be good at planning time and have brilliant work methods. Meanwhile, lawyers should be familiar with cases, laws and rules of trial; respect judges to win their confidence; pay attention to their statement, etc. For law firms, the key problems are to define their specialty, teamwork, business extension and reform in salary.