Shanghai lawyers leading the way in fulfilling their social responsibilities

On February 28, 2018, the Shanghai Bar Association released the Shanghai lawyers’ Social Responsibility Report (Year 2015-2017) from the press conference of the National Lawyers Association.

According to the report, the relevant work and cases of Shanghai lawyers fulfilling their social responsibilities during the year 2015 to 2017 are at the forefront of that in the whole country.The full report, a total of about 110,000 words, proposed the Shanghai law social responsibility idea, summarized the working mode and their bright spots of the 16 areas, and collected law cases with nearly 500 lawyers participating in social governance, fulfilling social responsibility and promoting the construction of the rule of law.

Shanghai Nuo Di Law Firm (www.shndlaw.com) noticed that Shanghai lawyers mainly engaged in the following ten aspects to fulfill the social responsibility of lawyers and  received high appreciation of National Lawyers Association.It mainly includes:

A) Being active on public legal service;

B) Being active on complaining & conflict defuse;

C) Participate in diverse resolution mechanism;

D) Participate in evaluation and treatment of group type and emergent event.

E) Being active on legislation and consultation;

F) Being active on administration according to law;

G) Participate in the administration and discussion of state affairs;

H) Being active to increase publicity of and education in the law;

I) Provide peer assistance, support western development and make a great contribution to the local economic & social constructions and development of western lawyering;

J) Being active on social welfare undertakings.

It can be seen from the above aspects that Shanghai lawyers play an important role not only in the service economy development, but also in the social governance, the rule of law construction and active performance on social responsibility. It is of great significance to "Create Social Governance Pattern of Co-building, Co-governance & Sharing". By actively fulfilling the social responsibility, Shanghai lawyers strengthen and innovate the law popularizing education and law-abiding society governance mechanism, social governance mechanism of the government administration according to law, dissolving the group contradiction mechanism, maintaining social stability of social governance mechanism, efficient and diversified dispute settlement mechanism and social governance mechanism promoting harmony.

Research Centre of Shanghai Nuo Di Law Firm

April 2018