From August 29th to 31st, the thirteenth session of King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Workshop was held in Beijing. After two rounds of complete lectures, the workshop started with the topic of “Reception and Interview”, and formally opened the third round of systematic practical training and training courses. New and old trainees from all over the country gathered together to overcome the difficulties and misunderstandings in the reception and negotiation and various stages of meeting, and strive to realize the double enhancement of “theory + skills”.
Course topics by the Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Honorary Dean of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense, doctoral tutor, King&Capital Law Firm Honorary Director Tian Wenchang, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Vice President of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense, Director of King&Capital Law Firm, Zhu Yonghui, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, vice president of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Criminal Defense, King&Capital Law Firm, senior partner of the door Jinling comments on the guidance.
King&Capital Law Firm senior partner Liang Yali, Peng Jiyue for the reception of listening, questioning, refusal to accept unreasonable requests and other aspects of the explanation and organization of practical exercises, senior trainer, psychological consultant ShaoChen as a special guest for additional comments. King&Capital Law Firm senior partners Xu Ying and Zhang Xiaofeng split the meeting into the investigation stage, review and prosecution stage, trial stage for in-depth discussion, and systematically organized interactive exercises for the trainees.
Chu Changzhi
Managing Partner and CEO of King&Capital Law Firm
The opening ceremony was hosted and addressed by Chu Changzhi, Managing Partner and CEO of King&Capital Law Firm. He first welcomed the new and old trainees who participated in the first topic of the third round. He said, King&Capital criminal defense practical training workshop adopts the training model of Northwest University of Political Science and Law, introduced by Mr. Tian Wenchang, drawing on advanced experience at home and abroad, breaking through the traditional "one person to speak, the crowd to listen to" teaching methods, focusing on practical exercises and interactive seminars. King&Capital criminal defense training workshop has successfully completed two rounds of systematic teaching, set up 12 professional modules, covering the whole process of criminal defense, combined with the professional characteristics of King&Capital Law Firm, forming a mature and comprehensive teaching mode. He hoped that the trainees could devote themselves to the two-and-a-half-day intensive training and gradually improve their professional skills in criminal defense.
Tian Wenchang
General Counsel of King&Capital Hall of Fame
Honorary Director of King&Capital Law Firm
Honorary Advisor of China Criminal Law Research Association
Advisor of Criminal Committee of All-China Lawyers Association
Honorary director and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense of Northwest University of Political Science and Law.
“King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Seminar is a training mode combining mutual discussion, answering questions and participating in exercises under the situation that everyone participates together.” Northwestern University of Political Science and Law Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense Honorary Dean, doctoral supervisor, King&Capital Law Firm Honorary Director Tian Wenchang in his speech profoundly explained the significance of the practical training for criminal defense lawyers to improve their defense skills. He believes that traditional "lecture-style" training can only be limited to learning knowledge, while immersion in the "combat-style" training can be shifted from input to output, and the knowledge can be used. In his speech, he called on the trainees not only to seriously participate in the training and experience the significance of practical exercises, but also to widely publicize and promote this training mode, so that more lawyers can benefit from it, and jointly enhance the professional level of Chinese criminal defense lawyers.
Zhu Yonghui
Director of King&Capital Law Firm
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense, Northwestern University of Political Science and Law
Adjunct Instructor, Criminal Law Center for Master of Laws, Peking University Law School
Lecturer of “Peking University Criminal Defense Lecture Hall”.
Lecturer of “Lawyer Practice” at the Law School of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Mr. Zhu Yonghui, Director of King&Capital Law Firm, emphasized the core concept and value of King&Capital's Criminal Defense Practical Training Seminar, and gave a deep interpretation of the word “practical training”. Zhu Yonghui explained that "real" stands for actual combat, the whole training to simulate the real cases of the exercise mode, focusing on practicality; "training" stands for training, through repeated practice operations, experience the criminal defense work in the routine action, due action and taboo action, the formation of "muscle memory". He said, this training mode at the same time to realize the Tian Wenchang lawyer's “three one”: the creation of a lawyers college, that is, the Northwest University of Political Science and Law Institute of Criminal Defense; to write a set of Chinese lawyers training materials, that is, “criminal defense tutorials”; and polished a set of mature training mode of criminal defense lawyers, that is, to continue to promote the King&Capital criminal defense Practical Training Seminar, “I hope that the participants will all gain and grow on this platform, and work together to promote the improvement of professional skills in criminal defense.”
Men Jinling
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
PhD in Litigation Law, Peking University
Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences University (Retired)
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense Studies, Northwestern University of Political Science and Law
“An excellent criminal defense lawyer possesses two core elements: one is to have a philosophy and the other is to have skills.” In her speech, King&Capital Law Firm's senior partner, Men Jinling, pointed out that a criminal defense lawyer must have both a subjectively correct philosophy as a guide and objectively specialized skills. “Both philosophy and skill come from our knowledge of the existing rules, our interpretation of the existing rules and what we should do and what we can do.” She believes that in the King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Workshop, the lecturers discuss with the participants about the concepts and techniques of criminal defense, and expects the participants to reap the growth through the training, as well as to improve their conceptual knowledge and professional skills.
Alice Liang
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Director of King&Capital Criminal Defense Research Center
Executive Director of the Third Council of the Chinese Society of Criminal Law Studies
Director of the Third Council of the Chinese Society of Criminal Procedure Law
Deputy Director of the Institute of Advanced Criminal Defense Studies, Northwest University of Political Science and Law
In her speech, Ms. Liang Yali, Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm, emphasized the importance of reception and interview as two basic fundamental skills of criminal defense. She said that reception is the starting point of all cases, how to link professional and reception contract, how to realize the transformation of knowledge and value enhancement, is the subject of concern for every lawyer; while the meeting is a relatively closed battlefield, different stages of the meeting strategy and focus on different - investigation stage focus on the direction of the investigation; review and prosecution phase focus on Explore favorable evidence; review stage focus on pre-trial counseling. Ms. Liang hoped that the participants would refine their professional skills and improve their reception and interviewing level through attending the King&Capital Criminal Defense Practical Training Seminar, so as to provide better legal services for their clients.
Xu Ying
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Practice Tutor of Law School of University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
External tutor of criminal defense students of Northwest University of Political Science and Law
Director of Criminal Society of Beijing Law Society
“We want to keep making you develop a muscle memory through this skill rehearsal.” Xu Ying, senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, was in charge of the lecture on the topic of meeting, and she revealed the practice risk points of criminal defense lawyers in meeting through recent social hotspots. She said that in the meeting topic, the lecturer will help the students to sort out the concepts, interpret the rules, and practice, so that the students can form a sense of risk prevention, such as how to grasp the verification of the “relevant evidence”, and enhance the ability to effectively verify the evidence in the meeting and protect their own safety.
Peng Jiyue
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Researcher at the Institute of Criminal Defense, Northwest University of Political Science and Law
Member of Commercial Crime Prevention and Defense Committee of Beijing Lawyers Association
Member of the Alumni Association of the University of International Business and Economics
Mr. Peng Jiyue, Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm, introduced the thinking and practice of the reception topic through “a story and a question”. Mr. Peng skillfully used the analogy of "hospital visit" to explain that the three stages of a criminal case are just like the process of medical treatment, and the consultation of the client and the reception of the lawyer often go hand in hand, and the reception scene is omnipresent at every moment. He encouraged the students to be the first to put into the actual simulation, into the discussion of the problem, and hoped that the students in the limited time to obtain the value of the harvest.
Zhang Xiaofeng
Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm
Researcher of Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense, Northwestern University of Political Science and Law
Shaochen
International Coach Federation (ICF) Corporate Coach,
Trainer
Executive and trainer of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
Chief Designer and Instructor of Communication Trainer of China Employment Training and Guidance Center, Instructor of Private Psychological Consultant
The content of this lecture involves meeting and reception of two major criminal defense lawyers, of which the psychological level with the client and family members of the guidance is particularly important. Therefore, the seminar specially invited a guest, senior trainer, psychological consultant Shaochen, on the client in different stages of the change of mind, and the corresponding attitude of the lawyer to adjust the analysis. He not only discussed the interaction patterns in actual cases, but also went deeper into the psychological level, guiding the deeper mind games and exploring the coping strategies of lawyers in different scenarios and situations.
“The essence of law is not justice but order, justice is only a means to maintain the maintenance of order, the basic function of law is to maintain social order.” In the evening, Tian Wenchang, honorary director of the Advanced Institute of Criminal Defense at Northwestern University of Political Science and Law and honorary director of King&Capital Law Firm, gave a special lecture on the topic of “Just Defense Procedure as a Foundation - Reasons for Non-Conviction Cases of Public Prosecution and Focuses of the Court Debate from the Function of the Law”, starting from the essence and function of the law. With its understanding of the essence of law as a prerequisite, the lecture centered on the issue of evidence and the allocation of responsibility, discussing the tasks and responsibilities of lawyers in upholding justice.
At this point, King&Capital criminal defense practical training workshop third round of thematic training successfully set sail, Kyoto Law Firm consultant group and lecturer group drawing on the valuable experience of the first two rounds of classes, the third round of thematic content and teacher arrangements for upgrading and adjustment, the depth of the combination of the “Criminal Defense Tutorial” trilogy, exercise the students to penetrate the thinking through practical teaching to help the students to accurately grasp the composition of the law, to the theoretical knowledge and professional skills to arm themselves! to enhance the core level of lawyers' criminal defense.
King&Capital criminal defense workshop has attracted the participation of hundreds of lawyers in many parts of the country, and its practice of Northwestern University of Political Science and Law, “small class teaching, problem-oriented” criminal defense training model is profoundly affecting the construction of China's criminal lawyers skills specialization.
