74: The agent withheld wages and beat employees?

Zheng Biling was the netizen who previously posted the video “If You Argue, You’re Right” online; her reason for posting this video was simply her dissatisfaction with Zhou Yun.

She was one of the most famous internet-famous lawyers in Jinghai City.

She thought about how much she had done and how long it had taken her to gain a little fame, and that was only in Jinghai City.

It was completely useless nationwide.

But what about Zhou Yun? In such a short time, he had taken off directly, and he was explosively popular, which made her a bit unable to accept it.

Some people might not quite understand this feeling. Let’s put it this way: you and another person joined a company at the same time, and you couldn’t get promoted, and your salary remained the same.

But the other person, whom you didn’t feel was much stronger than you, was so successful. Would you be jealous of him?

Jealousy is common these days; there’s no need to deny it. Everyone gets jealous; it’s human nature.

The saying “afraid that brothers are struggling, and also afraid that brothers are driving Land Rovers” can be said to have clearly expressed jealousy in a humorous way.

In short, Zheng Biling just found Zhou Yun unpleasant and wanted to find fault, but the problems she painstakingly found were not bought by netizens.

“You are truly ridiculous. Should good people be held at gunpoint? What does Lawyer Zhou owe anyone? Those two property owners are even more ridiculous!”

“Exactly, Lawyer Zhou at least helped you secure guaranteed delivery of your homes, but instead of thanking him, you’re thinking about liquidated damages. You can go ask for it yourself; who’s stopping you?”

“These kinds of people truly don’t deserve to be saved. I like to speak the truth.”

Zheng Biling was thoroughly lambasted by netizens; her alt account was directly deleted, and she fled, fearing she would die of anger if she kept watching.

Meanwhile, in Linwu City, the two property owners were also lambasted by others in the rights protection group.

Although they all wore masks, Wen Yuhe had seen them several times during previous rights protection efforts, and she recognized them as soon as she saw the video.

Everyone originally felt so grateful to Zhou Lawyer for his immense help that they didn’t know how to thank him, but now someone actually dared to speak ill of Zhou Lawyer?

If there were genuinely problems, that would be one thing, but the key was that Zhou Lawyer had helped secure guaranteed delivery of homes this time!

So, Wen Yuhe and others immediately started lambasting them. They just didn’t know the addresses of those two people, otherwise, they would have gone offline to reason with them directly!

The two were lambasted until they left the group, and by evening, they issued an apology.

There was no other way; some incredibly resourceful netizens had already doxxed them, not only finding their addresses but also their workplaces.

If they didn’t apologize, their companies would take action against them.

Zhou Yun naturally also saw the video, but he was too lazy to bother with it for now.

It wasn’t that he wasn’t serious, but it was still too early; that video couldn’t be considered a strong reason, and even if he pursued legal action, it wouldn’t be very effective.

So, for now, Zhou Yun didn’t plan to act. If he were to act, he would definitely choose a good opportunity to finish the job completely!

He needed to make those people afraid once and for all, so he could handle cases peacefully in the future.

Time had already come to the third day. In these three days, Zhou Yun familiarized himself well with Zhentian Law Firm.

Unlike Tianhe Law Firm, Zhentian Law Firm was the first law firm in Jinghai City to undergo reform, becoming a corporatized law firm.

The biggest difference between a corporatized law firm and a traditional partnership law firm was the division of labor and strengthened management.

Traditional partnership law firms meant that commission-based lawyers worked independently, forming their own teams and taking on cases themselves, submitting a portion to the law firm, and deciding how the rest was distributed within the team.

However, corporatized law firms were different; they would specifically formulate corresponding rules and regulations and establish a dedicated management committee.

In terms of division of labor, lawyers skilled in marketing would specialize in marketing and sourcing cases, while lawyers skilled in legal work would specialize in legal work. Salaries would be distributed according to team contribution, basically eliminating or greatly reducing commissions.

Corporatized law firms and traditional law firms each have their own merits; it’s not to say that corporatization is necessarily better.

And here, Zhou Yun was an exception; he could choose his own case-handling model.

He could do it himself as before, or he could let the law firm help.

If he needed the law firm’s help, then with a command from Zhuang Zhenrui, all lawyers at the firm could cooperate, which was the advantage of corporatization.

And if Zhou Yun couldn't find suitable cases, the law firm would also give him those “difficult cases” that no one else could handle.

Overall, the degree of freedom was really high; at least Zhou Yun was very satisfied.

It was another afternoon, and Zhou Yun was sitting in his office looking at private messages, preparing to see what kind of case could activate a task.

When he saw the tenth private message, the system finally had a reaction!

“New task detected!”

That fast? Zhou Yun looked at the task panel, where a new task had already appeared.

“Use legal means to assist the client Wang Pengrui and satisfy the client.”

The task description method was different from before; now it said to use legal means to help the client and make the client satisfied.

However, thinking back, this system used to train him as a novice.

Since the system had chosen it, then this case it was. How should one describe the existence of labor agencies? If you delve into it, there are a lot of problems.

There are too many ways to play, and ordinary workers can be left helpless in minutes.

Zhou Yun began to read the private message carefully; this should have been sent by the client’s wife.

She said that her husband, Wang Pengrui, was working in Jinghai City. It was originally agreed that the agency would pay a certain amount if he worked for three months, but after working hard for three months, the money was directly halved!

Then her husband went to argue with the agency, but the agency was very arrogant, and a conflict occurred.

For some unknown reason, her husband was arrested, accused of maliciously demanding wages and provoking trouble, having already caused minor injuries to the other party.

Now there was truly no way out; their family relied on the two of them working to earn money. Now the money was gone, the person was arrested, and the other party was also forcing them to pay compensation. They really couldn't bear it anymore.

After reading the private message, Zhou Yun immediately replied with a message, saying that he was interested in this case and asked the other party to call him after seeing the reply.

The phone number was naturally not his own, but Xiao Duan’s.

Although he said he didn't need an assistant, he actually needed one in his daily work.

After replying to the message, Zhou Yun began to study the upcoming exchange.

On the other side, in a rented house in an urban village in Jinghai City, Feng Cuilan, forty-two years old this year, was on the phone.

“Please, can you reduce the amount a little? Our family really can’t afford that much money right now…”

On the other end of the phone, a voice directly said: “That’s your family’s business. Anyway, I’m telling you, if you don’t pay, we definitely won’t give you a letter of understanding. Your man can just wait to go to jail!”

“He beat my brother up like that, I’m telling you, this isn’t over!”

Click, the phone hung up. Despair appeared on Feng Cuilan’s face. What should she do?

She opened her phone and aimlessly scrolled, when suddenly, Feng Cuilan saw a message notification.

Wait, this is… this is a reply from Lawyer Zhou Yun, the one online?