7. Have their own business characteristics

Senior lawyers should have their own business characteristics, which can be similar in nature but different in practice. They can also be heroes of the world, with similar views.

Taking criminal defense lawyers as an example, some lawyers prefer fraud defense, some prefer corruption defense, some prefer tax-related defense, and some prefer drug defense, gradually forming their own business characteristics. This can even become their highlights.

The business characteristics of senior lawyers form their own local advantages, which can become their performance labels. The saying goes, having a fortune is not as good as having a skill; those jack-of-all-trades lawyers lack business characteristics and thus blend in with the crowd.

The seven characteristics of senior lawyers are actually the internal requirements for lawyers to transition from being generalists to elites. Senior lawyers can certainly serve the general public, but in market selection, they gradually become stratified, belonging to a minority of high-quality clients with payment capabilities.

Becoming a senior lawyer is also an inevitable logic of survival of the fittest in the development of the legal profession.

Senior lawyers, unlike junior and mid-level lawyers, not only need to continue improving their legal business capabilities but also need to consider how to enhance their market development abilities and decide whether to develop towards partnership. Therefore, the senior lawyer group currently needs to focus more on how to further improve their interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.

From personal experience, the basic principles of interpersonal communication are equality and sincerity. One should not flatter the powerful and bully the weak, but treat everyone equally.

In a large law firm, to succeed relatively easily, one should treat everyone around them equally, as you never know who will bring you clients or other business opportunities. He or she could very well be your secretary or even an intern. A good professional image and reputation need to be spread among people of different age groups. As professionals, lawyers must recognize their industry characteristics; in simple terms, we are in the service industry, serving our clients.