The 1st Zhonglun Wende National Criminal Practice Seminar Successfully Held in Tianjin
On November 28, 2025, the 1st Zhonglun Wende National Criminal Practice Seminar was grandly held in the meeting hall on the basement floor of Building A, Ronghui Plaza, Nankai District, Tianjin. Hosted by the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende Law Firm, organized by the Criminal Committee of Beijing Zhonglun Wende (Tianjin) Law Firm, and co-organized by Beijing Zhonglun Wende (Changsha) Law Firm, the seminar gathered more than 40 elite criminal defense lawyers from over 10 branch offices in Beijing, Tianjin, Changsha, Suzhou, Qingdao, Xi'an, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Kunming, Taiyuan and other cities. They conducted in-depth discussions on cutting-edge practical topics such as "Case Handling Strategies and Procedural Coordination for Criminal-Civil and Criminal-Administrative Cross Cases".
Distinguished Guests Gather to Kick Off the Grand Event
At 9:00 a.m., the seminar officially kicked off. Lawyer Wang Ze from Tianjin Branch and Lawyer Jiang Xi from Changsha Branch co-hosted the first half of the legal forum.
At the beginning of the meeting, Lawyer Wen Zhisheng, founder and director of Tianjin Branch, delivered an opening speech. He reviewed Tianjin's historical heritage as a pioneer city of the rule of law in modern China and expressed high expectations for this national criminal practice exchange platform.
Subsequently, Lawyer Xu Bo, director of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende, and Lawyer Wang Tao, executive director, delivered speeches respectively, emphasizing the necessity and urgency of the professionalized and collaborative development of criminal practice. Section Chief Bian Yuanyi from the Bureau of Justice of Nankai District, Tianjin also attended the event and delivered a speech, fully affirming and supporting the holding of the seminar.
Focus on Cross-Border Areas and Explore Practical Paths
The core topic of this seminar was "Case Handling Strategies and Procedural Coordination for Criminal-Civil and Criminal-Administrative Cross Cases". With the increasing complexity of the economic and social structure, the same act often triggers civil, administrative and even criminal liabilities simultaneously. How to clarify the boundary of liabilities, optimize procedural connection, and unify evidence standards has become an urgent problem for criminal defense lawyers to solve.
In the forum session, more than a dozen senior criminal defense lawyers from Tianjin, Changsha, Kunming, Chengdu, Beijing, Shenyang and other places took the stage in turn to share wonderful insights combined with their own case-handling experience.
Speakers
- Lawyer Guo Ming, deputy director of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende and senior partner of Tianjin Branch, shared the theme "Civil First, Then Criminal – Urgent Need for Legislation".
- Lawyer Feng Yushan, senior partner of Tianjin Branch, shared the theme "The Origin of Criminal-Civil Cross and Practical Execution Difficulties".
- Lawyer Zhang Yi, partner of Tianjin Branch, shared the theme "Three-Dimensional Risk Response: Strategic Coordination of Criminal-Administrative-Civil Cross Cases from the Perspective of a Listed Company's Information Disclosure Violation Case".
- Lawyer Man Ruhua, partner of Tianjin Branch, shared the theme "Exploring the Application of Reverse Thinking in Criminal-Civil Cross Cases through a Dating Fraud Case".
- Zhou Lu, member of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende and from Changsha Branch, shared the theme "Jointly Developing the Broad Blue Ocean of Corporate Anti-Fraud: The Strategic Value and Practical Path of Lawyers in the Field of Criminal-Civil Cross".
- Lawyer Jiang Xi, senior partner of Changsha Branch, shared the theme "Effective Defense Paths for the Crime of Illegal Operation from the Perspective of Criminal-Administrative Cross – Taking a Second Instance Case with Revised Judgment as an Example".
- Lawyer Wei Xulan, senior partner of Changsha Branch, shared the theme "Opportunities and Challenges for Lawyers in Criminal-Civil Cross Cases".
- Lawyer Yan Jin, deputy director of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende and director of Kunming Branch, shared the theme "Accurate Grasp of Commercial Rules: Practice and Case Analysis of Penetrating Criminal-Civil-Administrative Cross Cases".
- Lawyer Wang Zhijian, director of Chengdu Branch, shared the theme "Criminal-Administrative Connection and Criminal-Civil Connection from the Perspective of Lawyer's Practice".
- Lawyer Feng Jie, partner of Beijing Headquarters, shared the theme "Successful Case Sharing of Rescuing Losing 'Pseudo-Civil and Commercial' Cases from the Breakthrough Point of Criminal-Civil Cross".
- Lawyer Liu Wenming, deputy director of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee of Zhonglun Wende and partner of Beijing Headquarters, shared the theme "Questioning the Concept of Criminal-Civil Cross and Its Practical Value from a Lawyer's Perspective".
- Lawyer Song Junwei, director of Shenyang Branch, shared the theme "How to Draft Legal Documents That Judges Have to Pay Attention to in Criminal-Civil Cross Cases".
The on-site discussion was enthusiastic with frequent exchanges of viewpoints, fully demonstrating the professional depth and collaborative spirit of the criminal practice team within Zhonglun Wende.
Thematic Lecture: "Change" and "Defense" Under the New Situation
At 14:00 p.m., the seminar entered the second half. Lawyer Mu Feng, director of Tianjin Huichuan Law Firm, director of the Criminal Professional Committee of Tianjin Lawyers Association, and member of the Standing Committee of Tianjin Lawyers Association, gave a thematic lecture titled "'Change' and 'Defense' Under the New Situation".
Based on the current trend of criminal judicial reform, Lawyer Mu Feng explained the law through cases, and analyzed the defense strategies for criminal-administrative-civil cross cases, the understanding and application of the new Supervision Law, and the defense skills for duty-related crimes layer by layer, presenting a wonderful ideological feast for the colleagues present. Director Mu Feng pointed out: "Change" is the proposition of the times, and "defense" is the mission of lawyers – only by actively adapting to changes and improving professional capabilities can we uphold the bottom line of justice on the criminal defense stage in the new era.
Build Consensus and Look to the Future: Lawyer Li Min Delivers Closing Speech
Lawyer Li Min, director of the Executive Committee of Zhonglun Wende Law Firm, took the stage to deliver a closing speech. Lawyer Li Min pointed out that facing the increasingly complex and professional new pattern of the legal service market, criminal practice not only requires profound legal knowledge but also calls for cross-field collaboration and national integrated resource integration. He emphasized that the headquarters will continue to increase support for the national Criminal Committee, promote in-depth integration of various branches in talent training, case sharing, standard construction, etc., and build a national criminal defense iron army with "excellent professionalism, quick response and efficient collaboration".
As the first large-scale national linkage activity of Zhonglun Wende's criminal practice, this seminar is not only a concentrated display of professional achievements but also marks a solid step taken by the national Criminal Committee of Zhonglun Wende in promoting integrated construction and enhancing overall combat effectiveness.
At the end of the meeting, on behalf of Beijing Zhonglun Wende (Changsha) Law Firm, Lawyer Wang Tao, executive director of Changsha Branch, and Lawyer Wei Xulan, senior partner, announced that the 2nd Zhonglun Wende National Criminal Practice Seminar will be hosted by Changsha Branch, and warmly invited all participants: "See you in Changsha next year!"
This seminar is the first offline national professional committee exchange activity held by Zhonglun Wende Law Firm since the establishment of 18 professional committees. This milestone practice not only demonstrates the organizational capacity and leading power of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law Professional Committee but also sets a benchmark. In the future, taking this opportunity, Zhonglun Wende will promote the professional committees to carry out regular cross-regional and cross-level professional linkages, deepen the integrated development concept of "a national game of chess", and truly realize resource sharing, experience learning and capacity improvement, so as to provide customers with higher quality and more systematic legal services.
In the future, Zhonglun Wende will continue to uphold the concept of "establishing the firm through professionalism and achieving win-win through collaboration", build more high-quality exchange platforms, help criminal defense lawyers focus accurately in complex cross cases, and contribute wisdom and strength to the construction of the rule of law in China.
