We will have a meeting this weekend as every year’s doing. The topic is to makesummarization of 2003 and resolution of 2004. I digest some paragraphs to post here to share with friends here who are very concerned of me.
Looking back the past year, self examination is always important thing for achieving new gains in coming year. No pains no gains is exactly footnote of 2003 for me.
Many records will be written in this year. I almost realized all resolutions in the end of 2002 for 2003. The digit of income is the best record in my history. There are at least five colleagues rewrote their best records too. So did our firm.
The team of mine at least wrote at least sixty insurance professional articlesto publish on various local main newspaper, our own magazines and important insurance websites. We won high praise from our peer, professional experts, common people. It is a great record for our firm in insurance area. Because it is the first time to achieve this accomplishment in a new area besides previous extremely successful real estate area.
The number of litigation cases which I handled this year is the most in my career history. It is another record. I almost won all cases. Sometimes, I even can't believe how can I reach this goal. Of course, I know it is some kind of by chance. But I am still very proud with the win of some extremely hard cases. I always think that litigation is not my cup of tea. So I meant to refuse litigation case unless foreign factors, insurance or maritime factors involved. So almost all cases I dealt with are involved in above mentioned factors. I even handled a divorce case between a Belgian gentlemen and Chinese lady. So I have opportunity to know a little knowledge about Marriage law. After one year practice through over 20 cases, I learned a lot and found lots of funs during process of handling cases.
The projects I handled in 2003 are also my prize, such as a big merger project between a private Chinese corporation and a big American enterprise, a big join venture project among three parties, two projects of foreign investors setting up company in our city. This is another record I make to use so much English in projects.
Actually, the accomplishment in 2003 impresses me mostly is not those digits in the bank account and records, but the compliment and trust from clients. Of course, clients may appreciate the achievements we gained for them on big case or big project. So many big lawyers ignore small cases. In fact, a small case may ruin big reputation and create big loss. In 2003, I did many trivia things for those familiar client and even some strangers, weak group for free. I never allocatetime on the cases based on income digit of cases. To my experience, small case usually costs much more time than big case. It is a kind of test for lawyer. No pains, no gains. The trivia cases help me to win client’s big respect in pastyear. I often remind my young colleagues. Just try our best to do every matter aslong as you owe commitment to clients. From short term, we lose some money due to handling these trivia only charge little fee or even for free. However, we gain valuable trust from client. It is more treasure than those visible digit on bank account.
Actually, I never think that the above accomplishment is worth to display. Compared to other outstanding lawyers, what I did is so small that it means nothing for them. Nevertheless, it is big achievement for myself. And I want to thank those who help me achieve them. And I wish to share my happiness with them and my friends here. All above accomplishment belongs to our firm, my colleagues, especially to my family. My mom, my hubby and even the nanny are always my strong support. With their help on home trivia, especially on nurture of my daughter, I didn’t need to spend too much time on my daughter's study and life. Nevertheless, I am still very proud that I assured to spend three hours to accompany to my daughter in most each working day and at least one day in weekend. Frequent working overtime doesn’t influence our happy family life. Thanks my hubby's tolerance and understanding. If not, I will not make the following announcement: I am a happy wife, mom and daughter at home. I am competent lawyer in our firm. So you can see, I dare not to say that I am competent wife, mom and daughter. Yes, especially as for the role of daughter, I did bad. I spent little time to accompany my mom. Mostly, my mom looked after me more than I did for her. So my new task in 2004 is to accompany my mom to have a trip. The first trip is to go to Hainan. It will be realized during Spring Festival. If possible, I will let my mom to have a luxury trip of Europe this summer. I must squeeze time to accompany my mom. My mom deserves it. She is 74 now. I am so lucky that my mom is health enough to going around the world.I know the opportunity to accompany each other in this world is limited. If we miss it, it will not return.
It must be very tiresome summarization.Thank you for your patience to finish it.
Lovingly
Dove
