Shenzhen Provides Cross-Border Legal Services For Foreign Trade And Economic Cooperation

The Shenzhen Municipal Judicial Bureau organized the media briefing on "the introduction of the first foreign law firm in Shenzhen".

According to the data released by the Shenzhen Lawyers Association, as of the end of April, Shenzhen has 625 law firms, including 6 partnership joint law firms.

There are 9619 practising lawyers, and the number of lawyers in domestic cities ranks second only to those in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

There are 34 branches in the field, and many other law firms set up offices abroad.

In 2015, the income of the whole industry was 3 billion 680 million yuan, the total amount of national tax and personal income tax was 410 million yuan, the average age of lawyers was around 35 years old, the overall quality was higher, and the master's degree or above accounted for 24.3% of the total number.

It is understood that Shenzhen professional

The law firm is relatively small and its service scope is mainly domestic. At present, there is no law firm specializing in foreign intellectual property rights.

According to statistics, there are more than 3000 lawyers engaged in foreign affairs throughout the country. They can handle foreign arbitration and trade lawsuits alone, with less than 200 lawyers.

As a major export trade country, Shenzhen ranks first in large and medium cities for 23 consecutive years.

Among them, the export of high-tech products in Shenzhen amounted to 130 million yuan in 2015.

"High tech products generally involve intellectual property rights. Once intellectual property disputes occur abroad, businesses generally spend huge time and economic costs to hire foreign lawyers for litigation.

Not familiar with the opportunity to delay easily, litigation results are often not ideal, "Jiang Xilin, director of the Municipal Judicial Bureau, told reporters.

According to the introduction, in order to further provide Shenzhen with high-quality cross-border economic and trade cross border legal services, support free trade area economic construction and participate in the competition of international legal service market, according to the principles of brand, quality, convenience and voluntariness, the Shenzhen Municipal Judicial Bureau has helped many foreign excellent law firms to conduct screening, inspection and negotiation through Shenzhen's large foreign trade enterprises, and finally decided to introduce Brinks lawyers as Shenzhen's first representative office in Shenzhen.

Municipal Judicial Bureau

After several months of communication, the lawyer has been preparing for the completion of the initial declaration for nearly half a year.

Following the landing of a lawyer's representative office in Shenzhen, the blinks lawyer will set up a bridge between Shenzhen and the developed cities in the US legal service industry, promote cooperation between the two sides in legal services, promote the internationalization of Shenzhen's intellectual property legal services, raise the level of intellectual property protection in Shenzhen as a whole, provide convenient legal services for Shenzhen exporters to defuse foreign technical barriers to trade, avoid the double loss of economy and reputation, promote the development of Shenzhen's economy and serve the "one belt and one road" economic construction.

James Sobilnaj, President of the blinks lawyer, said the reason for the submission of the Shenzhen branch was due to the fact that a large number of its clients were located in Shenzhen.

"We represent many of China's largest and most successful businesses, such as Tencent, HUAWEI, ZTE and BYD.

Our success last year was the first generic drug lawsuit in the United States involving the drug price competition and the patent term compensation act.

We understand that there are also new changes in the field of medicine and biotechnology in China.

We are also in touch with Dajiang technology and hope that our branch offices in Shenzhen will enhance our business cooperation with our customers.

When other American lawyers choose to set up branches in Beijing or Shanghai, we choose Shenzhen because we think Shenzhen is the place where we can provide the best service for our existing and future customers.

We will have an American lawyer with extensive experience in litigation, patent application and consulting in Shenzhen.

Our customers will be able to get in touch with our lawyers directly and make real-time calls.

We don't need to enter thousands of miles to meet us. We are here for you, "he said.