On August 22, 2020, Gaopeng Beijing head office and local branches held a mid-year partner meeting at No. 1 Puxi, Huangshan. Mr. Wang Dandan, a partner of the Shanghai office, delivered a keynote speech on "Exploring the Development of Chinese Marriage and Family Lawyers" from Self-growth.

Mr. Wang introduced the background of choosing marriage and family cases as the direction of practice development at the beginning of his practice, how to win the trust of more clients by publishing books and writing books in independent case handling, and discussed how marriage and family cases will be affected under the background of the Civil Code in the new era. She believes that becoming a professional matrimonial and family lawyer requires at least the following:

First, interest is the first priority. Some lawyers like to sit in the office and do not face clients directly, while others like to run around and deal with people, the latter has decided that it is suitable to be a litigator, and the former is suitable for non-litigation lawyers. Compared with other litigators, marriage and family lawyers are exposed to negative energy every day, and fatigue is not only physical, but also mental. But with interest as a leader, even so, there is still a strong positive initiative in the face of work, which is the foundation of the decade.

Second, there is a sacrifice to gain. Every lawyer will encounter a variety of types of dispute cases in the process of practice, dare to give up the considerable income brought by other types of dispute cases, in order to have more time and energy to research marriage and family dispute cases, dare to give up in order to win the profession, deep cultivation is always the best choice. There is not enough experience in handling the same type of case, there is not enough time cost as a basis, and it is not enough to talk about professionalism.

Third, the exhibition industry needs to be attentive. In the era of traditional print media, publishing books is a good way to publicize, but now is the era of e-commerce, and the way of exhibition is more diversified and simplified. At this point, although publishing books does not have the characteristics of simple, efficient, low-cost, and high conversion rate of online marketing, it is easier for customers to have a sense of trust and security in terms of content, which is unmatched by the online exhibition industry. And the longer it precipitates, the more it can become a lawyer's label, and the deeper and longer it circulates.

As a marriage and family lawyer, Mr. Wang has represented nearly 200 marriage and family dispute cases across the country and abroad during his five years at Gao Peng (Shanghai) Law Firm. Among them, except for the drafting of divorce agreements, prenuptial agreements, marital agreements, separation agreements, gift agreements, wills and bequest maintenance agreements, only two cases were appealed by the client after the first instance, and all the remaining cases were appealed or mediated by the opposing party.

(This article is translated by software translator for reference only.)