Shanghai Co-effort Law Firm， located in Shanghai Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, is a comprehensive partnership law firm which has branches in Beijing, Jiangsu Province and Osaka Japan.
There 7 partners, 40 lawyers (4 of them reiterated in Beijing), 23 paralegals, 5 trademark agents, 10 patent agents in the firm, including 4 Doctors, 15 Masters, 10 studying abroad and part of members once working in courts, government departments, enterprises, colleges and research organizations.
The advantages of the firm are professional division, tight cooperation, emphasizing on theory research and practical operation, spreading professional to the whole state by means of specific websites.
The features of the firm are of professional service, young teams and multivariate culture.
According to the principle of providing premier legal service for clients, after several years’ development, the firm has turned into a large-scale law firm from a 4-lawyers firm. As the firm is processing, we are not only good at the traditional law fields, such as dealing with disputes, foreign business investment, company affairs, bank financing, real estate items and international trade service, but also contributing to research in some new fields, such as protection of intellectual property rights, labor law, bankruptcy, venture capital and merger & acquisition. During the term of legal service, we have established our own features and characteristics and become a famous comprehensive lawyer in Shanghai. Through many years of accumulation and devotion, the firm has established long term professional cooperative relationships with more than 10 domestic and international law firms. The firm also has very good cooperative and information communication channels with numerous government departments.
During the growth of the firm, lawyers in it also have awarded many honors. Ping Li, a partner, was awarded the name of “Excellent Lawyer of Pudong New Area” in 2004. Minjian You, a senior partner, was awarded the name of “Lawyers of the Orient”, the winner and “Best Debater” in the first lawyers’ debate competition in Shanghai, one of “Best Ten Young Lawyers”, “Advanced Individual” in Justice and Administration System of Pudong New Area and a representative in Shanghai Bar Association, and has been interviewed by government officials many times. Chonghua Yao, a partner, is elected as a representative of lawyers in Shanghai Bar Association. Lanping Zhou, a partner, was awarded a nominated prize of “Shanghai Excellent Female Lawyers”. The firm has awarded a honor of “Advanced Units of Pudong New Area” and “Advanced Collective of Shanghai Justice and Administration System”. Meanwhile, the partners of the firm are actively to provide academic intercourse and lectures for social circles which contributes the legal improvement for society. Lawyer You has held many specific lectures for students of Law School and provided career training for new lawyers. Lawyer Lanping Zhou was invited to give a lecture in University of Science and Technology Beijing. Lawyer Chonghua Yao held a lecture specifically for the new <LAW OF PRC on EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT>. Lawyer Chenguang Ma was invited by “The Prince’s Charities Foundation” to give a speech in the “2007 Chinese Business Leaders Round Table Forum”.
Diligence and pragmatic are the working type of the firm. Cooperation and intercommunication are the working features. Assiduousness, prudence and preeminence are our service tenet. “Clients First” is the aim that we pursue. We insist on providing premier legal service in all fields for domestic and foreign clients by means of our excellent professional abilities and then becoming a trustful expert for clients.