What's wrong with this lawyer?!

Chapter 938: Chapter 303: It looks like I’ll have to call out ‘Director’ a few more times in the future

In the office, Old Wang was continuously perfecting the plan; in fact, lawyers are really the best candidates for this kind of private investigation.

They all understand the law, and during the investigation, they pay special attention to the collection of evidence, ensuring that after all the efforts, the evidence isn’t still lacking.

It’s just that no one had done this before, because hiring so many lawyers to help investigate a case seemed a bit too extravagant…

All things eventually come down to financial calculations, and the Public Security Authorities can’t endlessly invest manpower and material resources into every case either, since their budget is also limited, as is their manpower.

But Old Tang is different; as a lawyer up to now, he has made a lot of money. Don’t assume that he often doesn’t charge or charges less, but that’s for the poor.

For the wealthy, he asks for a big price, and a single case might be worth several years of earnings for an average lawyer.

Not to mention that the bulk of his earnings come from dividends, with Tengda’s current size and number of cases, the annual dividends would make anyone envious.

And Old Tang himself spends very little money, so he can truly say: I never like money, I have no interest in money.

Whenever he’s out of money, he just takes on a few big cases; rich people are his ATMs, the kind he can earn from easily.

So Old Wang’s plan was coming together very smoothly.

It was already afternoon, and Wang Yingying, the intern lawyer who had just joined this year, was continuously busy.

She graduated from a specialized Politics and Law University in the capital, and by all rights, she should have stayed in the capital after graduation, after all, in terms of professional environment and other aspects, the capital is the best.

But Wang Yingying chose to return to Jingzhou and joined Tengda because she thought it was too competitive in the capital, and maybe it would be more comfortable at Tengda.

Indeed, it turned out that Tengda’s conditions were really good. Although she was only an intern lawyer, her income was stronger than that of other lawyers at firms that were not doing well.

At this moment, Wang Yingying found a work email from Tengda’s director, Wang Daming.

Don’t misunderstand, the name of the sender was: Director Wang Daming of Tengda.

“Pretend to be an ordinary person going to a legal consultation company for advice, then investigate and collect evidence?” Wang Yingying was a bit confused upon reading the email; Tengda actually even forces employees to do this kind of thing?

Especially the title stating that this was a welfare for the low-income lawyers, needing a lottery to decide who goes.

The reason was apparently that there were too many lawyers at Tengda, and it wasn’t possible for everyone to enjoy this benefit.

Wang Yingying was a bit depressed, how could this be considered a benefit?

However, right after she finished complaining, she immediately saw the price at the end of the email…

“Five thousand for the first round per person, two… twenty thousand for the second round? Holy shit, that can’t be real!” Wang Yingying’s eyes turned into the shape of money as she looked at the price; it was just that the price for the second round seemed outrageously high!

Although twenty thousand might be insignificant for many people online, as netizens nowadays basically start with an annual income of a million.

However, this amount of money really is a lot for ordinary people!

Although Wang Yingying would like to say this doesn’t count as a benefit, there’s no way around it, the offer is just too generous.

As for the first round of investigation, it involves casting a wide net, continuously searching for local legal consultation companies through various online advertisements, and then starting conversations with those personnel.

By this process, it’s possible to determine which companies engage in false advertising.

Even though Pan Youyun said that more than two hundred companies all do this, Old Tang feels it shouldn’t be that pervasive; there should still be companies that pay attention to this aspect.

The first round of investigation is just a screening process.

If you were to report a case based solely on this, it wouldn’t be sufficient since all you can prove is that there’s false advertising, not whether it reaches the criminal standard, that’s unknown.

So after identifying the target companies in the first round, you need to start the second round of investigation, which is the critical part.

It’s certainly impossible to find those victims directly; lawyers don’t have investigative authority, and the fact that Old Tang was able to find these victims through Bai Boning was purely good luck.

So the only way to do it is to go undercover!

The idea is to have these lawyers or intern lawyers look for people who need to sue; it could be a relative or a friend, or, of course, one can choose to sue themselves if they want, as long as there’s a valid reason for the lawsuit.

Lawyers often get consulted by friends anyway, and besides suggesting the legal route, they really can’t provide any special advice.

Now it’s great; the law firm is paying for them to fight these cases, the fees given to the legal consultation companies will come out of those twenty thousand first, and according to invoices, receipts, and transfer records, etc., whatever is less will be topped up, ensuring that everyone will definitely get twenty thousand in the end.

Then go communicate with the screened legal consultation companies, saying that you want them to help with a lawsuit.

The legal consultation companies will definitely take the case; it’s inconceivable they wouldn’t accept business that comes knocking at their door.

After they accept, there’s no rush to report to the police; just calmly proceed with the lawsuit. If those companies refer the case to other lawyers, just record the lawyers’ names; Old Tang will communicate with the lawyers to identify the victims.

Now, if those companies never intended to file the lawsuit in the first place, it’s the kind of scheme Old Tang mentioned before: you sign a contract and pay the money, and then there’s no follow-up, telling you that it’s a consultancy fee.

That’s even better; it’s not just false advertising crime anymore; it’s a proper contract fraud, provided that the evidence is properly gathered at the time of signing the contract.