In 1993, Lin Manjiang, a graduate of Southwest Political Science and Law, took root in Guangzhou and started his career as a lawyer in an established law firm. From handling the counterfeiting case of mahogany furniture to get a first glimpse of the depth of the industry, to exposing the IOU scam to protect the weak, and then to dealing with antique dealers for the ownership of the jade pendant hidden in the old house, he used the law to pry open the cracks in people's hearts amidst the market chaos in the 1990s.
After 2000, commercial housing pre-sale disputes, equity puzzles in the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, and Internet fraud cases followed one after another. Lin Manjiang witnessed the iteration of the legal system with the times - from the revision of the "Contract Law" to the introduction of the "Property Law". He not only fought for the rights and interests of the demolished households, but also dismantled business traps for entrepreneurs, and even used localization strategies to break down foreign investment barriers in transnational intellectual property cases.
In the past ten years, faced with new challenges such as AI face-changing infringements, live broadcasts of fake goods, and virtual currency disputes, he has led his young apprentices to find a balance in the gray area between law and human nature. In the past thirty years, he has seen the arrogance of the powerful and the tenacity of the weak, and he has also maintained his original intention in winning cases and compromising. In the end, when he sorted through the yellowed files, he discovered that each case was a slice of time, and the ultimate meaning of the law was never about winning or losing, but about allowing every ordinary person to live with more dignity within the rules.
