What's wrong with this lawyer?!

November 10th, sunny.

Tengda Law Firm Director's Office, Old Tang flipped over a page in the almanac, Auspicious: Execution by shooting; Inauspicious: Lethal injection.

Seeing this, Old Tang suddenly laughed and said: "Qingqing, today is a good day."

Wang Qingqing chuckled from the side: "Tang Ge, what's so good about today?"

Old Tang sat down and said: "Good or bad, the criminal must die. Wouldn't you say it's a good day?"

Wang Qingqing nodded thoughtfully: "Tang Ge, you have a point!"

Zhang Wei at the door looked at the two inside, feeling stuck between going in or leaving.

He really wanted to say, isn't this something the Director made up? Plus, the proofreading work was done by Wang Qingqing.

Now you're here singing in unison... Why do I suddenly feel a bit redundant?

Just as he was thinking this, Old Tang inside spoke up: "Zhang Wei's here, what's up?"

Zhang Wei quickly walked in and said: "Director, I came to report the recent case progress. We've had several lawyers who have been inattentive at work..."

As Old Tang's apprentice, and with his own effort, Zhang Wei is now considered a small leader within Tengda, responsible for evaluating some lawyers at the headquarters.

"This is an old hand at the firm who has been quite lax in the past two years, previously complained about too, but back then Director Wang only issued a warning..."

"Now they've been complained about by clients to the firm. After reporting to Director Wang, he thinks they should be fired..."

Zhang Wei reported one by one, Old Tang listened slowly, occasionally offering advice.

There are always bad apples, this is unavoidable, even though Tengda's benefits are high, after a while someone will look for shortcuts while handling cases.

Most of those looking for shortcuts have been practicing for over ten years.

Taking shortcuts doesn't mean being lazy. It means thinking based on experience that certain steps can be omitted while handling cases, which results in problems later.

The firm now needs to punish these lawyers, and they all need Old Tang's approval.

Of course, most of the work is done by Old Wang, who is the bona fide director, while Old Tang only offers suggestions.

After Zhang Wei finished his report, Wang Qingqing came over and said: "Tang Ge, there's been a call from the Intermediate Court, saying that Xinda Company is very willing to mediate. Do you agree to mediation?"

Upon hearing this, Old Tang immediately laughed: "Agree, as long as it meets our demands, mediation is certainly no problem."

He's always been open to mediation, those who say he doesn't like mediation are slandering him.

It's just that some people always think the mediation room is like a wishing well, and once they're in, they start wishing like crazy.

That's a total lack of understanding of who's in charge, a court session is necessary to cool them down.

If someone self-aware enough can fulfill the demands through mediation, Old Tang isn't crazy, how could he not agree?

Wang Qingqing quickly went out to contact Jingzhou Intermediate Court, relaying Old Tang's words to them, and they agreed to meet that afternoon.

A half-hour later, at Xinda Company, the legal director breathed a sigh of relief.

At least for now, there's no problem, even if later Tang Fangjing wants to detonate the whole bomb, by then... He should have already resigned.

That's right, he's ready to run, he's not stuck with the company anyway, though this job is popular, after all, he's the legal director, not the finance director.

The finance director went for a tour of the Tilanqiao Detention Center and came out with their value doubled, warmly welcomed by the bosses.

As for him, if he actually went into jail, finding a job later would be a problem.

You're a legal director, dealing with law, and you get yourself in jail? How could anyone trust your professional competency?

The key issue is, the prison system absolutely discriminates against those who study law, but for accounting, finance folks, there's a special detention center for further education.

For the law students, there's nothing at all, isn't that obvious discrimination?

Thinking like this, the legal director prepared mediation work while pondering what reason to use to apply for resignation.

Time flew to the afternoon, and the legal director took the related materials and headed to the Intermediate Court.

Under normal circumstances, even when you agree to mediate today, the court needs at least five to eight days before starting the mediation work.

No choice, there are too many cases and the mediators are working nonstop.

But for this case, the Intermediate Court couldn't wait, especially for Judge Old Zhang handling the case.

Old Zhang, full name Zhang Xueyong, is also somewhat familiar with Old Tang; he handled the case of the professional restaurant runner at the start.

He also presided over the initial mediation, so in a way, he and Old Tang are quite connected.

Unlike Old Zhou who is keen on setting "typical cases," Old Zhang is going to retire next year and just wants to retire quietly.

He's long lost interest in fame, mediation is great if everyone has no objections.

So after confirming the situation, he immediately scheduled the case, aiming to finish the mediation by the afternoon.

However, there's a problem: the case has two defendants, and the accountant firm's personnel from the capital aren't willing to mediate—they didn't even show up.

So they can only hope Xinda Company genuinely has the strong desire to mediate as they claimed.

In the mediation room, Old Zhang greeted the legal director from Xinda Company.

"Director Zheng, right? Come, have a seat, it's great you're here." Old Zhang said with a laugh as he looked at the legal director.