Chapter 73: Li Xuezhen: It Was Still Not Enough That I Provided

Inside the office.

Su Bai asked Li Xuezhen to pour two cups of tea and place them on the table, while at the same time preparing written records and carefully documenting the key issues mentioned by Lin Quan.

From time to time he also asked several questions.

For example, during the first instance trial, on what specific points in the judgment document the loss of the case had been determined.

How many members of Penguin’s legal department had appeared, and what the core litigation arguments of the opposing party had been.

During the court hearing, what attitude the judge had displayed toward this litigation case.

After one hour, Lin Quan spoke until his mouth became dry, and at that moment Meng Xiaofan spoke:

“Lawyer Su, in a situation like this, do you think we can prevail in the second instance?”

After Su Bai received the approximate recorded information from Li Xuezhen, he said:

“Whether you can prevail depends on your litigation claims.”

“What exactly are the claims you are bringing in the lawsuit?”

Lin Quan remained silent for several seconds and then said:

“Lawyer Su, our claims are very simple, so long as Penguin apologizes to us, acknowledges plagiarism, and compensates our losses, that will be sufficient.”

An apology.

Compensation for losses.

Hiss.

Would that not require pressing Penguin firmly to the ground during litigation in order to achieve?

Su Bai smiled and said: “Regarding this case, I cannot guarantee the fulfillment of your claims, but I will do my utmost.”

“Specifically, you would need to entrust our law firm before we can continue further research and provide a certain plan and response.”

“The key point lies in whether you will entrust Baijun law Firm to handle this second instance litigation.”

When facing the troublesome Penguin that flapped its wings, Su Bai had a certain degree of confidence that he could prevail.

After all, as a large enterprise, the opposing party maintained many legal personnel, and for litigation initiated by a studio such as Lin Quan’s, in their view it might only be a minor lawsuit.

The legal personnel might not necessarily be top level.

However, if Lin Quan’s claims were to be fulfilled, there would still be a certain degree of difficulty.

One could not speak too absolutely.

Lin Quan’s expression appeared somewhat hesitant, and he raised the most critical and most important question:

“Lawyer Su, approximately how much legal fees would this case require?”

After looking at the detailed circumstances introduced by Lin Quan, Su Bai spoke slowly:

“According to the difficulty of this case and the amount involved, the estimated legal fees would be approximately eight hundred thousand yuan.”

“As for the specific fees, further understanding would still be required before they could be confirmed.”

“In the litigation application, it is possible to request that the opposing party bear the legal fees, but if the presiding judge determines that the opposing party does not bear them, then they would be borne by your studio.”

Upon hearing the legal fee of eight hundred thousand yuan, Lin Quan’s expression became somewhat conflicted.

Eight hundred thousand yuan in legal fees.

For their studio, this was not a small amount.

“All right, Lawyer Su, thank you for answering our consultation today.”

“However, this case, the second instance is very important for us, we still need to consider it further.”

“All right, this case is indeed important, and it is appropriate to consider it carefully before making a decision.”

Su Bai smiled slightly and nodded, and escorted Lin Quan and Meng Xiaofan out of the law firm, and before leaving, Lin Quan once again expressed his thanks to Su Bai.

After Lin Quan and Meng Xiaofan left the law firm, Li Xuezhen’s small face showed confusion:

“Lawyer Su, I saw that when they heard the legal fee amount they frowned, is the legal fee we requested too high?”

“They have only recently graduated from graduate school, do they really have that much money to conduct litigation?”

Cough.

The thinking of this young wealthy lady was somewhat incorrect.

Su Bai coughed lightly and asked in return: “To which lesson has your progress currently reached?”

“Lawyer Su, I have reached lesson six.”

“Then today I will teach you lesson seven.”

Upon hearing that there would be teaching, Li Xuezhen’s small face became serious, and she listened as Su Bai said:

“Do not consider clients based on fixed assumptions.”

“Think about it, if they could not afford such legal fees, would they come to our law firm?”

Li Xuezhen shook her head: “They would not.”

“Then why did they come to our law firm?”

Li Xuezhen’s eyes lit up: “I know this, it is because they want to win.”

Su Bai rubbed his temples: “Are there no other reasons?”

“Other reasons.”

“The other reason must be that they can afford the legal fees, and just now they mentioned that they had already visited some top law firms in Nandu, those top law firms would certainly charge even higher prices than ours.”

“A legal fee of eight hundred thousand yuan is already a preferential price for our law firm.”

“Our law firm is not a charitable law firm that conducts litigation without charging fees, after all, expanding the law firm in the future will not be inexpensive, what the fee should be is what it should be.”

“Moreover, this legal fee is not charged arbitrarily, it is estimated according to the amount involved in the litigation and its difficulty.”

“Do you understand?”

Li Xuezhen nodded seriously: “Lawyer Su, I understand.”

At the same time.

As soon as Li Xuezhen heard matters related to money, she immediately became energetic and realized that the opportunity had arrived.

After Su Bai noticed Li Xuezhen’s burning gaze: ???

Li Xuezhen spoke with a smiling expression: “Lawyer Su, do you lack funds? Expanding the law firm should require a great deal of money, if relying entirely on legal fees it would probably take a long time to accumulate.”

Su Bai: ?!?

At her workstation, Li Xuezhen lowered her small face with a worried expression, it seemed that two million yuan was still not sufficient.

However, she had already taken out all of her carefully saved private funds.

Her private funds had been completely exhausted, and not a single yuan remained.

Alas.

Li Xuezhen opened the chat records in her communication application and sent a message to her father:

Dad, if I want to invest in a law firm but do not have enough money, what should I do?

Old Li: Not enough money? My dear daughter, you are telling me that you do not have enough money? As your father, I have truly failed. Wait a moment.

Several seconds later.

Li Xuezhen saw a notification message arrive on her bank card.

Li Xuezhen carefully counted the digits, one, two, three, six, seven, the first digit was five, followed by six zeros.

After counting, Li Xuezhen’s eyes curved like crescent moons: “Thank you, Dad.”

“It is only five million, why thank me? I earn money for you to spend. As long as you do not fall in love that is enough.”

“Dad, I am not asking for money for a romantic relationship, it is for investing in a law firm, Dad, please be assured.”

Li Xuezhen emphasized seriously.

Old Li looked at the message returned by Li Xuezhen and felt very gratified, his obedient daughter had studied well at school, and even before graduating she already knew how to invest.

Moreover, it was a law firm.

Not bad.

She had good judgment.

As for five million yuan, Old Li did not take it seriously at all, it was only five million yuan.

So long as his obedient daughter was not led astray, corrupted, or taken away by others, five million yuan meant nothing to him and was entirely insignificant.