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The Way of Deheng

Rating 3.2
Word count
405K words
Chapters
73
ISBN
9787301347560

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Summary

This book reviews and summarizes Deheng Law Offices' thirty years of entrepreneurship, innovative practice, development achievements and reflections. It observes and assesses the major events and figures along the firm's growth timeline and explores the path of developing socialist lawyers with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

From such dimensions as Deheng's lofty mission of serving the socialist market economy and legal system construction, the growth and management of a law firm with a thousand lawyers, frontline cases of serving SOE reform and major national equipment and defending the rights of the private economy in accordance with the law, and innovative practice in exploring "Belt and Road" legal services, it tells the story of Deheng's people and Deheng's work.

Editor's review

Taking the thirty-year development of Deheng Law Offices as its main thread, this book places the growth history of a thousand-lawyer firm within the context of the socialist legal profession with Chinese characteristics. The author recounts both the entrepreneurial journey and management practice, and specific cases of serving SOE reform, defending the rights of the private economy in accordance with the law, and exploring "Belt and Road" legal services. People and events are interwoven, giving the narrative a sense of immediacy. Its value lies not in self-congratulation but in offering an observable sample: how a law firm balances market expansion with professional capacity building, and how the legal profession responds to national strategy and market demand. For legal practitioners, it is a rare record of organizational growth; for readers concerned with China's rule-of-law process, it offers a real cross-section of how lawyers participate in economic and legal construction. The narrative is documentary and retrospective in style, suited to reading with questions in mind rather than as a theoretical work.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • Lawyers and law firm managers seeking to understand the growth and management experience of large-scale firms
  • Law students hoping to learn about career paths and the industry ecosystem of the legal profession
  • Researchers interested in Chinese enterprises "going global" and foreign-related legal service practice
  • General readers interested in the development history of the socialist legal profession with Chinese characteristics

Not a good fit for

  • Academic readers expecting systematic legal theory or statutory analysis
  • Readers looking for independent, third-party critical industry research
  • Casual readers with little interest in law firm case documentation and institutional narratives

Reading tips

  1. Start with the table of contents to grasp the thirty-year timeline, then read selectively by major event nodes, rather than reading an institutional chronicle linearly from cover to cover.
  2. When reading the case sections, note how service recipients correspond to legal issues, and consider how the firm's positioning adjusted with market changes.
  3. Take comparative notes against management challenges in your own organization, turning the book's practices into discussable questions.
  4. For the "Belt and Road" legal services section, read alongside relevant foreign-related legal policy documents to deepen background understanding.

About the publisher

Peking University Press China · Founded in 1979

Peking University Press is a comprehensive university press whose publishing areas cover classical literature, popular science, social culture, world history, Western philosophy, and culture. Its catalogue contains 6,031 titles, with representative books including A Dream of Red Mansions, Relativity: The Special and General Theory (15th Edition) (with Einstein's classic papers on unified field theory and other topics), Elements, Conics, The Aristocratic Families of the Eastern Jin, The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume I), The Philosophy of Mythology (Volume II), and The Origin of Continents and Oceans. Representative authors include Cao Xueqin, Zhou Ruchang, Albert Einstein, Euclid, Apollonius, Tian Yuqing, Schelling, and Xian Gang. The press has developed distinctive strengths in classical Chinese literature and in the translation of Western philosophical classics, while also covering scientific classics and social and cultural studies. As public information is limited, this description is based only on the books in the catalogue and offers no further extrapolation.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 序言
  3. 前言
  4. 第一章 德恒起航
  5. 一、改革开放 放飞梦想
  6. 二、中心起步 创建德恒
  7. 三、不经风雨 怎见彩虹
  8. 四、走有中国特色的律师之路
  9. 五、专业为本 服务为要
  10. 六、德恒全球 自主发展
  11. 七、法律服务 社会责任
  12. 第二章 党建引领
  13. 一、党的春风暖律师
  14. 二、分所开在哪里,党支部就建在哪里
  15. 三、坚持党的领导不动摇
  16. 四、主题教育入脑入心
  17. 五、创新德恒党建品牌
  18. 六、建党百年获殊荣
  19. 第三章 与国同运
  20. 一、挺进服务三峡工程
  21. 二、创新服务科技殿堂
  22. 三、率先服务“大国重器”
  23. 四、服务重大特殊产业
  24. 五、服务金融监管一条街
  25. 六、为中国农业银行改革收官之作
  26. 第四章 龙头表率
  27. 一、驰骋资本市场之金融证券篇
  28. 二、为基金业多种工具提供全方位服务
  29. 三、国际资本市场之风云际会
  30. 四、深耕资本市场之重组并购
  31. 五、破产重整之企业拯救
  32. 六、房地产开发之城市更新
  33. 七、新时代再写新篇章
  34. 第五章 维权博弈
  35. 一、依法维权 高超博弈
  36. 二、知识产权 平等保护
  37. 三、总要有一个这样的案例给民营企业家以信心
  38. 四、为自由与生命的权利辩护
  39. 五、WTO下的“三反”烟消云散了吗
  40. 六、美国知识产权的利器——“337”调查
  41. 七、反垄断的内外之战
  42. 八、国际仲裁全球较量
  43. 九、在美国法律下的依法维权
  44. 十、维护依法行政与公共利益
  45. 第六章 践行公益
  46. 一、法里法外总关情——三十载院士公益服务
  47. 二、志愿保护 绿水青山
  48. 三、人民至上 排忧解难
  49. 四、爱心培育 祖国未来
  50. 五、顽强抗疫 厚德载福
  51. 六、德恒教育 心有所栖
  52. 第七章 举步全球
  53. 一、走独立自主国际化发展道路
  54. 二、跬步千里 勇毅前行
  55. 三、扎根省会 区域布局
  56. 五、经略港澳 深耕大湾
  57. 六、中国品牌 全球专家
  58. 第八章 谋道创新
  59. 一、“一带一路”国际合作新平台
  60. 二、创建“一带一路”服务机制
  61. 三、创建一带一路国际商事调解中心
  62. 四、意思自治的商事调解受到推崇
  63. 五、打造“一带一路”服务机制全球影响力
  64. 六、创建“一带一路”创新服务平台
  65. 第九章 德恒之道
  66. 一、践行初心使命
  67. 二、党建促所建 促创新促发展
  68. 三、与时代同行 为法治贡献
  69. 四、奋进新时代建功立业
  70. 五、中国品牌 全球服务
  71. 六、德行天下 恒信自然
  72. 七、我与德恒
  73. 后记

FAQ

Is this book an advertisement for the law firm?
The book is written by the firm's founder and has the nature of an institutional summary and retrospective, with an internal perspective. At the same time, it records major events, management practices and specific cases over thirty years and has sample value for understanding the development of China's legal profession. Readers should read it with a critical eye, treating it as industry documentation rather than neutral research.
Will non-legal readers gain anything from this book?
Yes. The book touches on macro issues such as SOE reform, defending private economy rights, and "Belt and Road" services, which can help general readers understand the role of lawyers in economic and legal construction. If you are interested in institutional development history and the industry ecosystem, the threshold is not high; but if you expect legal knowledge itself, the gains will be limited.
Can the management experience in the book be directly copied?
It should not be directly copied. Deheng's growth took place under specific historical conditions, scale and business structure; what the book summarizes is experience and reflections, not a universal template. Readers are advised to make comparative analyses based on their own organization's scale, business and personnel structure, extracting transferable ideas rather than specific practices.

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王丽 Author

Wang Li is an author about whom little public information is available; her nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. Judging from the sixty-three works held in the collection, her writing and editorial work span a wide range of fields. These include medical subjects such as Li Zhongyu's Surgery, as well as inspirational growth and applied psychology, such as The Key Skills for Resolving Conflict: How to Increase Your Effective Social Interaction and The Curse of Being Cute. She has also taken part in translating and compiling classic works, including The Left-Handed Woman by the 2019 Nobel Laureate in Literature Peter Handke. In addition, readers for children and popular science, such as Little Stories Told by Adults, Cute Animals' Big Show, Every Bird Has Its Turn on Stage, and Happy Camp for Fierce Beasts, show her care for knowledge popularization and lively expression. Overall, her works combine practicality with readability and cover a broad range of subjects suited to readers of different ages and interests.

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