What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Chapter 930: Chapter 300: Coming to Report a Case with the Suspect, Aren’t You?_2

“I’ve indeed been busy these past few years. Now that I’ve become the director of the law firm, but Officer Ge, when I saw you a few years ago, you were on duty here, and you still are? Why is that?” Old Tang joked.

Officer Ge’s expression darkened: “Lawyer Tang, if you can’t say something nice, please don’t say anything at all!”

There’s nothing I can do if I can’t get promoted. Who doesn’t want to be promoted? Who wants to be on duty all day long?

He and Old Tang had known each other for a very long time, so their communication was quite casual. Of course, he definitely couldn’t voice the latter thought.

Meanwhile, Pan Youyun was feeling a bit apprehensive, but “since I’m already here,” it would certainly be a loss of face for him to leave at this point.

Moreover, if Tang Fangjing really could get me thrown in jail, it would be useless to go back to the company, so I might as well wait here.

“Alright, I’m on duty now. Lawyer Tang, what brings you here today?” as Officer Ge spoke, he glanced at Pan Youyun and another person behind him, not knowing what they were up to.

Old Tang stopped joking and said, “Officer Ge, I’m here to report a case today.”

When Officer Ge heard this, his expression became serious. Tang Fangjing’s reports were never without basis; he was someone different from others and would only report a case if there were concrete evidence.

“Go ahead!” Officer Ge immediately prepared to take notes.

“Yangsheng Legal Consultancy Service Co., Ltd. in Jingzhou City is suspected of false advertising. Here is the evidence of the company’s false advertising.”

As he spoke, Old Tang opened his carry-on briefcase and took out a stack of already-photocopied documents from the bag, handing them over to Officer Ge across from him.

Officer Ge took them and scrutinized the papers. To constitute the crime of false advertising, the activity must be defined as advertising!

The term “advertising” has a wide range of meaning, but in criminal law, it specifically refers to commercial advertising.

That is, the advertiser uses transmission media to convey information about goods and services to the public, attracting consumer attention, and attempting to persuade them to purchase or use the advertised goods through open promotional activities.

In the materials provided by Old Tang, the legal consultancy company had placed a massive amount of advertisements across multiple platforms. Locally, there were even many self-media platforms promoting for them.

This is a very normal occurrence. To put it bluntly, most of these legal consultancy companies’ expenditures are on advertising.

The competition in advertising is extremely fierce. Simply put, if you pay money, the platforms are willing to put your company’s advertisements in a prominent position.

For example, on a certain search platform, when you type in ‘legal services,’ a bunch of advertisements will instantly pop up, many of which are from legal consultancy firms, and they are local to you. Moreover, there will be bots constantly messaging you, asking what services you need, etc.

The same goes for healthcare—search for a particular illness, and you’ll get bombarded with messages from bots posing as various hospitals, inquiring if you want a consultation…

Amidst these adverts, there’s an extremely conspicuous slogan: “Guaranteed to win,” and honestly, that’s enough; you don’t even need to look at the rest. The claim is obviously misleading.

Legal consultancy firms fundamentally do not have the qualifications to litigate, so claiming they ‘guarantee a win’ is clearly false advertising.

Pan Youyun, who was standing behind, started to feel bewildered when Old Tang mentioned the crime of false advertising; he had never heard of such a crime before.

No surprise there. Not everyone who runs a company knows everything. After all, he’d been operating like this without anyone interfering, so he thought there wouldn’t be any problems.

A legal consultancy firm that doesn’t understand the law?

Some do, but many don’t; they’re just companies, after all.

Many people don’t understand this industry. Some so-called consultants at these legal consultancy firms even have a middle school education… It’s laughable to think that people with only a middle school education are providing legal consultation.

Due to their lack of qualifications, they are called ‘teachers.’ The reason they have someone with a junior high school education is because that person is an exceptional salesperson. They are able to retain customers drawn in by the advertising, so naturally, they hold the title of ‘teacher.’

Then Pan Youyun saw Tang Fangjing continue to pull out materials, and he started to panic.

No way, are you serious!?

So, before coming to the trial today, you had already prepared to send me to jail?

He trembled inexplicably, while the girl beside him frowned and immediately stepped back a few paces, hiding behind Pan Youyun.

Officer Ge looked at the documents in his hand and was about to say something, but before he could speak, Old Tang had already begun again.

Another stack of materials was pulled out from the bag: “And these, these are evidence of the company’s illegal income of over one hundred thousand yuan!”

The crime of false advertising is based on severity; it’s not just about engaging in false advertising, but also about severe consequences. Illegal income exceeding one hundred thousand yuan is one such serious consequence.

The words on Officer Ge’s lips were swallowed hard as he took the materials and started to review them.

There were numerous transfer records from many victims to the company. Officer Ge was really curious as to how these were obtained; Tang Fangjing did not have the investigative powers of the Public Security Authorities.

Behind him, Pan Youyun couldn’t hold back anymore. He rushed forward to snatch the documents and look at them, his face paling instantly: “No way, where did you get all these from?!”

Even if he didn’t understand the law very well, he realized that his situation was not looking good.

Officer Ge frowned and addressed Pan Youyun, “What are you doing? Put the documents down!”

Then turning to Tang Fangjing, he said, “This person you brought, who is this, daring to snatch things in a police station?”

It was only out of respect for Tang Fangjing that no action was taken. Otherwise, based on Pan Youyun’s just now behavior, he would have been pinned down on the spot.