My Story with Tongwang丨Zhou Xinghai: Tongwang Accompanies Me on My Journey
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2021-11-15
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Editor's Note
As Tongwang Law Firm approaches its 25th anniversary, we look back at the past. The people of Tongwang have worked hard and forged ahead, leaving behind many memorable deeds and stories on the road of common growth with Tongwang Law Firm. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Tongwang Law Firm, Tongwang Law Firm launched the theme essay activity of "My Story with Tongwang". From now on, Tongwang's official account will successively publish the stories of Tongwang people.
Tongwang Accompanies Me
By Zhou Xinghai
In March 2013, it was the height of spring, and the temperature was slightly chilly. After working for 12 years in Liuzhou Vehicle Depot of China Nanning Railway Group Co., Ltd., a large state-owned enterprise, I resolutely resigned from this stable job and entered Guangxi Tongwang Law Firm Liuzhou Office as an intern with a passion for the legal profession and on the recommendation of a friend.
At the moment of resigning from the unit, I was still very uneasy. I was always worried about how to solve my life problems after there was no fixed salary income. This is also the primary issue considered by most people who resign from the system to engage in the legal profession. The only fortunate thing is that I have a preliminary understanding of the hardships of lawyers' early practice and have hoarded "food and grass" in advance, and prepared for two years without economic income. After entering Tongwang Law Firm for an internship, all work had to start from scratch. I was not even clear about the specific locations of judicial organs such as the court and the procuratorate, let alone the basic work of drafting complaints, sorting out evidence materials, and filing cases. However, thanks to Tongwang Law Firm's excellent "teaching, helping, and leading" system, with the care and help of the instructor and other lawyers, the one-year internship period was not as difficult as previously expected. The living expenses for each month were guaranteed, so I no longer had to worry about food, so that I had more time and energy to learn the litigation process, master preliminary case-handling skills, and successfully complete the internship assessment task.

July 1, 2014, is the 93rd anniversary celebration day of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Everyone is carrying out colorful celebration activities for the birthday of the Party. The lawyer's practice certificate, which had been waiting for nearly a month after passing the internship assessment, was also delivered to the law firm by the postal express of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Department of Justice on this day. When I opened the envelope and saw the lawyer's practice certificate, I was extremely happy and joyful. While warmly celebrating the birthday of the Communist Party of China, I also ushered in a grand gift in my life. A song "Today is a good day, everything you want can be achieved, tomorrow is a good day, open the door and we will welcome the spring breeze..." suddenly sounded in my ears.
Obtaining a practice certificate also means that you can independently accept and handle cases, but there is a more important issue, which is the source of business. Some lawyers who have just started practicing are unable to persist because they do not have a stable source of business, and then switch from the legal industry to other industries. As a new member of Tongwang Law Firm, I was also very hesitant and confused when facing this problem. I thought that as a lawyer who had just started practicing, I was not strong in professional ability and did not have extensive social resources. How could I have the competitiveness to obtain business? However, the pioneers of Tongwang Law Firm fully considered this issue that young lawyers are very concerned about at the beginning of the establishment of the firm. The firm's case "co-handling" system fully solves the confusion in the hearts of young lawyers. As long as you are willing to learn, diligent, and careful in your work, partners and senior lawyers will be happy to find you to co-handle cases. Through case co-handling, young lawyers can not only learn more professional skills from them, but also obtain the remuneration they deserve. Through the case "co-handling" system, actively participate in the firm's public welfare affairs, etc. for self-promotion, and gradually improve in terms of case-handling skills and business capabilities.

Bathing in the sunshine of Tongwang Law Firm, it was the end of 2016 in a blink of an eye. With a deeper understanding of the firm's concept of "working together with one heart and one mind, and living up to expectations", I gradually had the idea of joining the partnership, shouldering responsibilities and responsibilities. I deeply know that as a partner, I should not only join the partnership in terms of cost, but also in terms of ideology and action. Only when all partners are unified in ideology and consistent in action to manage all affairs can the firm develop and grow; can the firm be built into the most brand-competitive excellent law firm. Under the influence of this concept and awareness of running a firm, I firmly submitted an application to the firm to express my willingness and determination to join the partnership. In April 2017, the application was approved by the meeting of all partners of the firm, and I was approved to join the partnership team, and I felt extremely proud. Because this is a full affirmation and recognition of my work from an intern lawyer to a practicing lawyer in the past 4 years, and it also places high hopes and expectations.



Time flies. With the companionship of Tongwang, 7 years have passed without knowing it. From an intern lawyer to a full-time lawyer, and then to a partner of the firm, there have been hardships, confusions, efforts, and gains. Under the care of the firm, through my own efforts, I was respectively rated as "Excellent Communist Party Member" by the Party Committee of the Liuzhou Municipal Bureau of Justice in July 2015, June 2017, and July 2018; in January 2019, I was rated as "Liuzhou Excellent Lawyer of 2015-2017" by the Liuzhou Municipal Bureau of Justice and the Liuzhou Lawyers Association; in June 2019, I was rated as "Liuzhou Excellent Young Lawyer" by the Liuzhou Lawyers Association and other honorary titles. The achievements I have made today, although there are my own efforts and contributions, are inseparable from the strong support of the firm. As a Tongwang person, we have grown up healthily under the protection of our predecessors and enjoy their nectar. When we can share a responsibility, we must be duty-bound, dare to take responsibility, and be brave to contribute to the development and growth of the firm.

Tongwang accompanies me, accompanies my growth, thank Tongwang, Tongwang is always in my heart!
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