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The Universal Legal Corp. was founded in September 2002, the current address of our headquarter is 18th Floor, Enjoy Center B Building, 8 Songyue Road, Siming Dist., Xiamen, Fujian, China. Besides we have an archive center in Xiamen Lianfu Building, two affiliated groups respectively located in Haicang Dist. and Xiang’an Dist. of Xiamen and three affiliated agencies respectively located in Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Putian. The total office space is about 3,200 thousand ㎡, and we handle about 5,000 cases annual (includes over 300 public interests and legal aid cases). Our firm established Party Branch, Youth League Branch and Labor Union Organization comprehensively. We focus on business collaboration and communication with other internal and international legal firms, we are one of founding members of China Attorney’s Network and a Chinese member of TAGLaw.

With 15 years of service experience, in the spirit of conscientious, efficient and high quality service, the firm involves in several emerging and difficult legal aspects with bilingual (Mandarin and English). We have an outstanding achievements in Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan and foreign cases, maritime cases, company cases, contract cases, real estate cases, construction cases, infringement cases, criminal cases, administrative cases, labor legal service, employees/juvenile rights protection and legal aid to vulnerable group et cetra. Currently we have already handled cases related to over 30 countries and areas, and we have successfully provided legal support several times for investment in China of foreign authorities and world-famous institutions, and we have also provided omni-directional personalized professional service for internal authorities, NPC and the CPPCC, enterprises, financial institutions and people include vulnerable group.

The firm and our lawyers provide legal counsel service for Xiamen Municipal People’s Government, Unit 73111/31659 of The Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, China Chamber of International Commerce, Fujian Taiwanese Complaint Coordination Center, Fujian Federation of Trade Unions, Fujian Federation of Industry and Commerce, HSBC Bank, Bank of Communications, Dell, Fluor Daniel, Linde, Preussag AG, BMW, Mercedes, PKU Founder, Xiang Lu Dragon Group, CPT Laser & Electronic Co., LTD., Xiamen Prima Technology Inc., ACTIF Polarizers (China) Co., Ltd., China Southern Airlines, Xiamen XMFOCA, CCPIT Xiamen, Xiang’an Dist. Government, Xiamen Torch High-tech Zone Management Council, Gulangyu Island Management Council, Xiamen Federation of Trade Union, Xiamen Daily, Phoenix Satellite Television, Xiamen Charity Federation, Xiamen Taiwanese Investment Enterprise Association, Xiamen Consumer Council, Minnan University of Science and Technology, Xiamen Huatian International Vocation Institute, Yi Zhongtian and Li Xiaoling et cetra. Our firm is the legal counsel of BRICS Xiamen Summit as well.

Cases handled by our lawyers contains the first top 10 national mediation cases, the first crime of fraud in financing that criminal repatriated from Taiwan to Mainland China, the first case applying recognition and enforcement of Hong Kong Supreme Court’s judgment in Mainland China, domestic Annual Best-Seller infringement dispute, securities insider trading case that supervised and handled by CSRC, the largest contract dispute case at that time accepted by Fujian High People’s Court, the largest Intellectual Property case at that time in Fujian, Xiamen Intermediate People’s Court “Top 10 IP Cases in Thirty Years of Reform and Opening-up, Xiamen “Annual IP Affairs” et cetra, some of them had been selected for Annual of China Maritime Law, Case Selection of the People’s Court, Selection edition China Law Reports and mainstream Chinese legal websites.

Our firm is the advanced collective of National Legal Aid Service, the contract firm of “Tongxin·Legal Volunteer Service Group” established by United Front Work Department, Ministry of Justice and All China Lawyers Association, one of the legal firms join in ICCTV Law Channel, Legal Service ATCS of ACLA and Legal Daily, Communist Youth League Central Committee Youth Practice and Probation Base, Peasant Workers Right Protection Workstation of Fujian Province Lawyers Association, Advanced Party Branch of Fujian Province Lawyers Association, Outstanding Legal Firm in Fujian, Practice Base of XMU/FAFU/JMU/TKK/XMCU, we also obtained honors like Xiamen “Civilized Unit”, Xiamen “Youth Civilization”, Advanced “Youth Rights Protection Unit”, “Learn from Lei Feng Volunteer Service Unit”, Advanced Unit of Judicial Administration Work and Advanced Unit of Legal Aid Work. Our lawyers have been awarded the national, provincial and municipal levels of honors for several times, including The National May 1 Medal, National Outstanding Lawyer in Safeguarding Workers’ Rights and Interests, The First Outstanding Members of National Tongxin·Lawyer Service Group, China’s “Leading Lawyers in Foreign Affairs”, Outstanding Members of the Provincial CPPCC, Outstanding Members of the Provincial CPPCC,  Outstanding Proposal of the Provincial CPPCC, Fujian Youth May 4 Medal, Fujian Top 10 Young Lawyers, Fujian “Contemporary Lawyer Demeanor Award”, Fujian Advanced Young Lawyer, Fujian Advanced Lawyer in Fulfilling Social Responsibility, Fujian Integrity Civilization Advanced Lawyer, Fujian Advanced Lawyer,  Fujian Advanced Young Public Interest Lawyer, Advanced Lawyer Participating in the Year of Standardized Construction Hosted by Fujian Provincial Department of Justice, Fujian Advanced Individual of the Fourth 5-Year Popularizing-Law Plan, Xiamen Advanced Chinese Characteristics Socialistic Constructor et cetra.

Our lawyers have been invited to make a statement or host several meetings and forums including Chinese Lawyers Forum, Cross-Strait Legal Forum, China-ASEAN Legal Affairs Forum, CIFTIS, Forum on the Belt and Road and International Legal Services, CILPA Forum. Besides, we hosted or participated in compiling several books as well including Guide for Xiamen Enterprises in Anti-Dumpling Complaints and Responses, Collection of Works by Xiamen Enterprises Responding Foreign Anti-Dumpling Cases, Legal Environment Report of the “Belt and Road” Countries, Collection of Policies and Regulations of PPP. We participated in formulating the first “Guide to Lawyers Handling Taiwan-Related Affairs in China”, examining and approving Textbook of Policies and Regulations of China Mainland to Taiwan. Our lawyers have also been educating undergraduates and postgraduates for seven legal courses and lectures of law schools of universities like XMU for 10 years as part-time professor, visiting professor or postgraduate supervisor. We continuing popularizing law as a member of Fujian/Xiamen Legal Publicity and Education Lecturer Group and Distinguished Professor of CPC Xiamen Municipal Party Committee Lecturer Group, while we protecting litigant rights and interests of arbitration and mediation as we playing a role of part-time arbitrator and part-time mediator. Besides, lawyer of our firm participating in revising regulations, supporting law-based administration of governments and law-based application of judiciary authorities by being a CPPCC member, a NPC member, part-time leader of Democratic Party, Special Messenger of United Front Department of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, Expert Advisor of Government and Xiamen Municipal People’s Congress and Guest Supervisor of Fujian People’s Procuratorate and Xiamen Maritime Court, aiming at reflecting public opinion, advocating social justice, helping authorities solving social conflicts and disputes.

Our firm is always fulfilling social responsibilities actively, we provide voluntary service continually for public interest groups like Xiamen General Trade Union, Municipal Workstation for Safeguarding Rights and Interests of Migrant Workers, China Charity Federation, Consumer Council, Fujian Women and Children’s Development Foundation, Xiamen Volunteer Association, Animal and Plant Protection Association and vulnerable groups; we participate in consulting services provided by Xiamen Municipal Government Service Center, Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Complaints, PSB, Xiamen Free Trade Area, Xiamen Women Federation, Xiamen Municipal Legal Aid Center and 148 Command Center; our lawyers host several channels of Xiamen People’s Radio Station continually since 1996, while we hosting the Lawyers’ Channel of XMNN since 2008 and being TV Talk guests of XMTV. Besides, our lawyers had been invited to 315 Rights Party hosted by CCTV in 2007 and 2008; we were invited to provide legal consulting service online for ChinaQW concerning issues relate to Chinese legal issues and “Belt and Road” issues of oversea Chinese and oversea Chinese enterprises, which made us receive a handwritten thank-you note from deputy director of Oversea Chinese Affairs Office; we also participated in the first Global Oversea Chinese Business Conference and were met by Premier Li Keqiang. The total number of legal aid and public interests cases handled by our firm has over 2,100 and we provide legal advices for over 210 public interest units as their legal counsels. Meanwhile, our firm has committed to donate over 2.2 million Yuan for helping the poor, including 300 thousand Yuan for Fujian Lawyers Association Workshop for Safeguarding Rights and Interests of Migrant Workers since 2006, 450 thousand Yuan for TKK Law School “Chonghui” Scholarship since 2007, 300 thousand Yuan for XMU Law School “Chonghai” Scholarship and other educational and popularizing law activities, which increased to 600 thousand Yuan in 2016, a 100 thousand Yuan “Chongwei” Award Fund for Xiamen Ping-pong Association in 2016, 100 thousand Yuan for FAFU College of Humanities and Law “Mingde” Scholarship since 2017, 100 thousand Yuan for XCU Scholarship, 200 thousand Yuan “Ulccn·Tongxin” Support Fund for Heng County, Guizhou Province, 30 thousand Yuan for Fujian Women and Children’s Development Foundation to set up a “Chunlei Education Support Class” et cetra.

In March 2018, we took a further step on pursuing public welfare, which the “Xiamen 12348 Legal Consulting Center On-site Service Point” undertaken by our firm put into function. The service point provides professional “face-to-face” legal consulting services, combining functions like legal aids and lawyers mediation, which enable us to provide a convenient, efficient public legal services with high quality.

Our developing goal is to participate in the process of Chinese legal service industrialization, to set up a national brand and to integrate into international competition, as well as to promote constructing the rule of law and constructing social harmony in China.