Chapter 216 Sensation! Endless Regret

"What’s wrong with him?"

"I don’t know."

Someone stroked their chin and said thoughtfully,

"Why do I get the feeling our director’s heart is bleeding?"

"I don’t know."

...

After the provincial department notified the municipal bureau,

the news swept through the entire Lusen City judicial system like a gust of wind.

First, there were the municipal leaders.

Everyone was stunned at first, but that was quickly followed by elation.

Reaching the municipal level is a watershed moment in a political career. You either languish in mediocrity or achieve something great and enjoy a meteoric rise.

But governing a city with a population of ten million is no easy task.

You have to understand, most people have no real concept of the capabilities of Dongguo’s government officials.

Let me put it this way.

A city the size of Lusen City would have the same population as a small country abroad!

Ten million people! Many countries only have a population of ten million. In Dongguo, that’s just a municipality, but the difficulty of managing it is only slightly less than running an entire country.

So, naturally, promotions are incredibly difficult to come by.

Let alone for lawyers!

"A nomination"—in their system, those two words represented something several times more difficult to obtain than admission to Shuimu Yan University!

Jinmao Law Firm, and even other firms, had more than ten lawyers from Shuimu Yan University.

But they had no qualifying criminal cases!

Oh, wait.

Jinmao Law Firm theoretically had... 0.1 of one.

After all, when the Li Family Village case was taken on, Xu De was indeed at the firm. He just left afterward.

As for why it couldn’t be counted as half a case, but rather 0.1...

"It was out of malice, a form of workplace bullying, that they gave Xu De the Li Family Village case..."

Inside Huquan Law Firm.

The director of the firm, having received the news, murmured to himself, his expression growing stranger by the moment.

After a long moment, a look of profound emotion crossed his face.

"Jinmao is really something else. You have to hand it to them. Daring to bully a lawyer like that."

"A provincial nomination, and they just threw it away!"

"From now on, I won’t argue with a single word Han Jun says in this city. Han Jun..."

"He’s a real piece of work."

...

Inside Zhenghe Law Firm.

In the main hall.

Zhang Wei, a Gold Medal Lawyer, sat on the sofa. Listening to the information from his firm’s director, he felt a wave of despair wash over him.

In his last trial, he had delivered the best courtroom performance of his life.

But despite his best performance, one that displayed a Legal Ability that would make even a Red Circle Law Firm shake their heads in wonder, his client was still sentenced to death.

Despair.

Zhang Wei was in utter despair!

For the past half a month, he had been so listless that he hadn’t even taken on a single consultation case, spending his days at the firm drowning in self-doubt.

And now...

’A nomination?’

Zhang Wei murmured anxiously to himself.

He was on the verge of a breakdown.

’I shouldn’t be the one selected, right? With two cases... it won’t be me.’

’There’s no way I’m going to be nailed to the pillar of shame...’

...

"We have to get on good terms with them! We must!"

Shengda Law Firm of Lusen City.

As one of the city’s three large law firms with nearly a hundred employees, the director of Shengda Law Firm made a wise choice immediately.

"A misjudgment! We’ve completely misjudged them in the past!"

The director pounded his chest and stomped his feet, his face filled with regret as he looked at his firm’s previous analysis of Xu De’s law firm.

The legal world isn’t like the corporate world.

In the legal world, seniority is genuinely how you make a living!

In ordinary business, creating a monopoly is illegal. But for lawyers, monopolies are legal!

First, the longer your firm has been established, the more likely you are to connect with large corporations and sign retainer agreements with them in advance.

And those large corporations won’t go looking for other law firms.

First one, then two, then three, then four...

The law firm grows continuously.

Those corporations also continue to expand.

In the end.

What future is left for the small law firms?

Most of the resources in Lusen City have already been carved up.

Even though Xu De had founded a law firm, Shengda Law Firm’s evaluation at the time was that it could grow rapidly in the short term, expanding its staff by relying on civil and consultation cases.

But in the long run, the lack of commercial partnerships and financial cases would be fatal to the firm.

"Nonsense! Utter nonsense!"

The director of Shengda sighed repeatedly.

It wasn’t exactly nonsense in the past, but... after those three words—"provincial selection nomination"—were spoken...

The other party’s law firm would no longer be limited to Lusen City!

But the firm itself is still located in Lusen City. It’s equivalent to a high-level player with top-tier gear coming back to the starter zone.

"The deputy director? Where’s the deputy director?!"

"Have them come see me! Shengda Law Firm needs to re-evaluate ’Houde Law Firm’!!!"

...

...

The outside world was in an uproar.

Some were furious, some were jealous, some were fearful and sad.

Of course.

There were also those who knew nothing at all.

"By the way, Lawyer Xu, with our firm’s current setup, is it possible we won’t receive any news from the city?"

It was 3:30 in the afternoon.

In a coffee shop.

The three of them were chatting casually while drinking coffee.

Wang Chao yawned, his eyes drowsy and rimmed with dark circles, as he looked at Xu De and posed the question.

"I see that other law firms,"

"all have dedicated teams for gathering information, and they also maintain good relationships with the city leaders."

Hearing this,

Xu De sat there drinking his coffee, while Lin Yue sat to the side, resting with her eyes closed.

Xu De, with nothing better to do, replied casually,

"Don’t worry. The authorities have the firm’s mobile number that I left with them. They can reach us with a single phone call."

Hearing this,

Wang Chao suddenly froze. He raised an eyebrow and said,

"I remember when we set up the firm... we didn’t have a phone yet, did we?"

Lin Yue was the one who secured the office space.

Because of the rush with the No. 18 Middle School case, while the interior renovations were fine, some of the details were definitely not in place.

Like the phone line.

"Xu, whose number did you leave?" Wang Chao asked suspiciously.

Xu De paused. Only then did he remember this detail, and the corner of his eye twitched.