What's wrong with this lawyer?!

There was a moment when Old Zhou felt he might pass away before Old Tang...

Tsk, tsk, tsk! How could that be possible? That guy was in the late stages of cancer, after all. Even though his own health wasn't great, he was sure he'd outlive Old Tang.

The case was proceeding in an orderly fashion, and at the same time, Old Tang had also made contact with the local Justice Bureau leaders and the Han Dong side's Publicity Department.

The main contact was a person surnamed Yang, who would send materials to him.

Of course, after the video was made, it had to be sent to the Publicity Department for review, and any unfavorable elements had to be removed.

That didn't bother him. Old Tang was confident his video would pass the review, as long as it didn't involve any principal issues. Generall speaking, it was fine.

The internet naturally has a pretty high threshold.

As for the production of the video, it obviously couldn't be left to Li Wanting again. Since he had nothing else to do, he might as well do it himself... and while at it, call a few intern lawyers, Niu Ma, to work.

When Lawyer Tang called for work, those Niu Mas were very willing because Lawyer Tang wasn't like the others; when you did work for him, there were perks to be had.

For instance, if you wanted case sources, no problem, you'd get case sources as soon as you became a formal lawyer. Or if you wanted your internship experience to look good, no problem, he would deliberately add you to big cases.

It turned out that young people didn't actually want to reform the workplace; they just hated being PUA'd.

If you got paid for the amount of work you did, young people really had no complaints.

So, a few intern lawyers, Niu Ma, worked their tails off while Old Tang just needed to oversee their work.

On the one hand was the court hearings, and on the other was video production, and in between, he found the time to verbally spar online with some guys who appeared out of nowhere.

Time flew by, and it was June again—Jingzhou's summer had arrived.

By this time, Old Tang had just passed three years.

In the Bright District Court, Old Zhou looked blankly; after who knew how many overtime sessions, they finally resolved those thousand-plus cases.

It was overwhelming. Even in The Capital, though the workload was heavy, a judge at most dealt with a few thousand cases a year.

But that was a year!

In Bright District, there were already fewer judges, and now they had to handle this batch of cases quickly, which inevitably meant overtime, more overtime, and then more overtime...

Oh right, civil servants aren't controlled by labor laws. What kind of overtime could a judge really have while reviewing cases?

Finally done, Old Zhou had only one thought: if only the judges in the criminal courts could work like this, seeing his colleagues idle was more painful than death...

Old Tang had also agreed with the defendants not to rush their public apologies, waiting instead for the release of his video to apologize all at once!

Over a thousand lawsuits, with compensations for the four criminal complaints alone amounting to over a hundred thousand, this sum of money had already covered the previous expenditures for travel and accommodations.

The remaining lawsuits varied in compensation amounts; some were as high as a few thousand yuan, while others were just a few hundred. Looking at it, it was quite a lot, and at the very least, Old Tang made a killing!

But you should know that the most laborious part of so many cases was the evidence collection and organization, all done by Old Tang himself. If you hired a lawyer, that would be no small sum.

Even though bundling so many cases together might get you a discount, at the very least, the fee for each case had to meet your local minimum charge standard. You can imagine how terrifying that is...

Once the money was in hand, the first thing Old Tang did was to pay the mortgage.

Meanwhile, back at the law firm, the intern lawyers who had been laboring for who knows how many days finally finished the video.

In the office, Old Tang began reviewing the video. To speak or not to speak, with ample material, the video was indeed easy to make.

Since the Publicity Department was also making a program, they had even sent people to interview some of the defendants...

They had even interviewed the criminally prosecuted defendants who were already under coercive measures, which was incredibly intense.

They guessed that the current severity of online violence was getting worse, and now that there was such an opportunity, they needed to take advantage of it to educate the public on the law.

Old Tang began narrating the video, "Hello, viewers, I am your old friend, Tang Fangjing. As you all know, recently, I have been engaged in large-scale rights protection."

"I have always believed that right is right and wrong is wrong. The fundamental reason we have yet to engage in such rights protection is not because we don't want to, but because the cost is high."

"As for the waste of judicial resources, a netizen put it very well—Is the judicial resource shortage our fault?"

The narration clarified the events he had previously notified, it wasn't that he didn't give a chance, but the other party refused to accept it.

After recording, and after careful consideration, Old Tang typed out the title: "Defend Your Rights in Everything; No Crime Is Too Small!"

That's right, he, Tang Fangjing, was just that petty.