Chapter 76: An Annual Salary of One Million, Attorney Tang’s Choice

Listening to Shen Rou's words, Chen Mo fell into deep thought.

If he were to establish a legal department, to lose lawsuits, it would definitely be better to hire some inexperienced lawyers—the less experience, the better, ideally just interns.

In that case, whenever they encountered a lawsuit, the probability of losing would certainly be very high.

However, just as this thought arose, the system gave a reminder.

The minimum requirement for a company to establish a legal department is to have an elite lawyer in charge.

Damn it, this damn system really doesn't let one exploit any loopholes at all.

An elite lawyer? In that case, how could he lose lawsuits?

Wait, Attorney Tang!

Isn't she an elite lawyer? And she just lost a lawsuit. Setting everything else aside, at the very least, in terms of professional ability, Tang Qiu must be lacking compared to other elite lawyers, right?

High price, low configuration. Isn't this exactly what he wanted?

The system told him to hire an elite lawyer; it wouldn't be going too far for him to hire one with low ability, would it?

Furthermore, the annual salary for an elite lawyer is around 500,000 to 700,000. The system allows the offered salary to be about 30% higher than the normal wage. Following the highest standard, plus a thirteenth-month salary, offering an annual salary of 1,000,000 is absolutely no problem.

It's just that he didn't know if it could be paid in advance. After all, previously, employees could only be paid at most one month's salary in advance; could this total annual salary be paid a year in advance?

After testing it, the system actually didn't refuse. Damn!

Does that mean other employees could also be paid based on annual seniority? However, the system soon gave a reply.

"An annual salary does not conform to the general trend of society; the host can only provide annual salaries to employees in certain special positions."

Chen Mo, who had just thought he discovered a new way to spend money, hadn't even been happy for a few seconds before being blocked by that one sentence from the system.

That's true. The salary of lawyers in law firms is linked to the number or size of the cases. Some lawyers might not get a single case in a month, but they might get several in the next.

Therefore, when lawyers discuss salaries, they are basically calculated as annual salaries. This is probably the reason why the system allowed him to offer an annual salary.

He sighed. What a pity; if all employees could be paid an annual salary, he wouldn't have to worry about not having a place to spend money.

After thinking about it, he took out his phone and found Tang Qiu's number. Since he had a way to spend money, he naturally had to act as quickly as possible.

Regardless, as long as he recruited Tang Qiu to the company's legal department, he could directly spend 1,000,000 in System Funds.

…

Tiandi Law Firm, inside the partner's office.

"Since you want to go after her, why not expose the news that she intentionally lost the lawsuit? In that way, her reputation would definitely become even worse, and I estimate that few law firms would want her."

A woman wearing exquisite makeup asked, looking very puzzled. As a partner of Tiandi Law Firm, she really didn't understand Attorney Wu's approach.

That Tang Qiu had caused the reputation of Tiandi Law Firm to suffer greatly, and the law firm had spent a great deal of effort to stabilize the employer and keep this big client.

Yet, Attorney Wu had only hired some internet trolls to smear Tang Qiu's ability and hadn't exposed the fact that Tang Qiu had intentionally lost the lawsuit.

Attorney Wu was leisurely drinking tea, watching the woman opposite him, and said slowly.

"The internet has a time-sensitive nature. Even if I were to leak this news, perhaps Tang Qiu might be ruined because of it at the time. But as time passes, most people will forget."

"At that time, with Tang Qiu's ability, do you think she would remain in decline forever?"

"For a capable person, this bit of negative news is simply not enough to be fatal."

"Also, if she is pushed to the edge, she could completely expose the matter of the injured family. By then, even if she intentionally lost the lawsuit, she would gain the understanding or sympathy of a large group of people."

"People will always subconsciously stand on the side of the vulnerable."

"If it really develops to that point, who wins and who loses will be unknown."

"And in this way, it would also push our employer into the public eye, and by then, this big client might really not be kept."

Zhou Fang listened to Attorney Wu's remarks and couldn't help but frown.

"But to let her off so easily is letting her off too lightly."

"How is it possible to spare her just like that?"

Attorney Wu looked at the unwilling Zhou Fang, smiled faintly, reached out, picked up a USB flash drive on the table, and shook it.

"Sometimes, when you are not sure you can kill the opponent one hundred percent, keeping a gun pointed at them is the greatest constraint."

"With this USB drive, I have grasped her Achilles' heel."

"I can completely wait for the best opportunity to give her a fatal blow."

Attorney Wu's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a thought-provoking smile.

…

"President Chen, you want to hire Attorney Tang as the company's legal counsel?"

"But Attorney Tang, she…"

Shen Rou heard Chen Mo's plan and said with some worry. After all, Attorney Tang was currently in the midst of public opinion, and she was worried that bringing her into the company at this time would have a bad impact.

"It doesn't matter." Chen Mo waved his hand indifferently.

"Notify Brother Yang to prepare the car. I have an appointment to meet at a coffee shop, and we will set off later."

"Very well, President Chen." Shen Rou nodded. Since President Chen had already made up his mind, it was not convenient for her to say anything more.

…

Inside the coffee shop, Tang Qiu looked at Chen Mo opposite her and joked.

"President Chen, could it be that you have thoughts of acquiring a company again this time when you called me?"

The previous two times the other party looked for him, it was all about acquiring companies.

"This time it is not about acquiring a company. I saw your news." Chen Mo chuckled and looked at Tang Qiu opposite him, speaking slowly.

Upon hearing this, Tang Qiu's expression paused slightly. She subconsciously adjusted her glasses and looked at Chen Mo.

"I don't think President Chen is bored enough to make an appointment with me just to see a joke."

"That goes without saying!" Chen Mo smiled and turned his head to signal to Shen Rou. Upon seeing this, Shen Rou hurriedly pushed the prepared letter of employment to Tang Qiu.

"Attorney Tang, you can take a look. This is our company's letter of employment."

A letter of employment? Upon hearing this, Tang Qiu curiously opened the letter of employment that had been pushed over and took a look.

After seeing the content inside, Tang Qiu's expression finally changed. She had not expected that the other party would actually offer an annual salary of 1,000,000 to hire her to serve as the Legal Director of the company's legal department.

One must know that after she became an elite lawyer, her annual salary was less than 700,000. An annual salary of 1,000,000 already exceeded that by a lot; this was something she had never expected.

More crucially, her reputation had plummeted. If the lawsuit she lost had been some ordinary case, it wouldn't have turned out like this.

The key was that the employer of the lawsuit she lost was a company under Ruishang Group, and Ruishang Group was a leading enterprise in Jiang City.

She lost this lawsuit, which was equivalent to offending Ruishang Group. Therefore, everyone who knew the inside story avoided her, fearing that they would be implicated.

So, ever since she resigned from Tiandi Law Firm, her offers had been rejected by several law firms in succession.

And just at this lowest point, the young man in front of her, regardless of those negative comments, extended an olive branch to her, which made her somewhat puzzled.

"Aren't you worried about what kind of impact my current reputation will have on your company?"