On August 22, 2020, Gaopeng Beijing Head Office and partners from various branches held an annual seminar at Gaopeng International Cultural Exchange Center, No. 1 Puxi, Huangshan, and Mr. Bian Wenbin of Taizhou Office made a keynote speech on the current dilemma and expansion of criminal defense business.

Mr. Bian Wenbin first introduced the operation status of the Criminal and Legal Department jointly established by the Yangzhou Office and the Taizhou Office, and the number of criminal cases and revenue generated by the agent increased by 22% and 121% year-on-year in the past two years.

Mr. Bian focused on the current factors affecting criminal defense. The novel coronavirus epidemic has made it difficult for detainees to meet and communicate with case-handling organs, and criminal cases are in a state of suspension, resulting in no results in criminal cases being represented, no results for clients, and shrinking case sources. In anti-gang crime cases, the anti-gang crime office, the political and legal commission, and the public procuratorial law have set up obstacles to lawyers' defense at every level, and the judicial bureau and lawyers association have also issued a number of regulations, reporting and reviewing acceptance, meetings, and defense. As a result, the lawyer is under pressure, unable to accept the case, unwilling to accept the case, afraid to accept the case, or after the lawyer accepts the case, in order to protect himself and not cause trouble, the defense is often a formality. During the period when the Supervision Commission handles job-related crimes, lawyers cannot intervene. Lawyers in such cases can only intervene after the supervision organs transfer them for prosecution, but by this time the evidence has already been formed and fixed, and the defense is difficult and ineffective. The two systems of plea of guilt and punishment and full coverage of criminal defense are ostensibly conducive to criminal defense lawyers expanding the source of cases, but in fact, with the advancement and implementation of these two systems, the necessity for parties to hire lawyers to conduct criminal defense has been greatly weakened, and they often hope for legal aid.

Difficulties and opportunities often coexist. Mr. Bian also shared the successful experience of the criminal legal teams in Yangzhou and Taizhou in the process of expanding their business, focusing on communication, strengthening self-protection awareness, finding defense breakthroughs, and cultivating court debate capabilities.

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