I Became a Law School Genius – 80



I Became a Genius Law School Student Episode 80

“…How do you do that?”

“It’s an issue that shook the media.”

Based on the time of the story the incident occurred 5 years ago.

– The eldest son of a sitting member of the National Assembly hit someone while driving drunk! The victim even died!

It is said that these provocative headlines swept the media.

However despite its noisy start this incident fizzled out relatively quietly.

Because there was no conclusive evidence the investigation ended with no indictment and Jeong Seok-gyu’s brilliant showmanship worked such as appearing on the news shedding tears doing all kinds of volunteer work with his bare body and showing his ‘will to reflect’ in front of the people saying that he was deeply responsible for raising his son incorrectly. Because I went in.

‘It’s a bit of an unreasonable setting.’

It might not have been possible if the media had prevented it from being broadcast at all. Once word of it spread in the neighborhood it is not easy to appease public sentiment with a politician’s tearful show.

Unless you are a very charismatic and lucky person your political career will end that day.

But Jeong Seok-gyu did that difficult thing.

As it became known that the investigative response team that led to the non-indictment was from the infamous Jin & An some people began to suspect that some kind of suspicious transaction had taken place.

However it did not become a loud enough voice to turn the tide.

Anyway one of the members of Jin & Ahn’s investigation response team at the time was none other than lawyer Seong Jin-tae.

It was an unusual appointment considering that the investigation response team is usually composed of former prosecutors or former police officers who led the police investigation team.

This probably means that there were many people in Jin & Ahn who trusted Seong Jin-tae’s abilities.

“Will it be difficult?”

Of course I also had a reason.

“I learned that the biggest role a lawyer plays in a criminal trial is the investigation process before the trial. “At this time it is important to secure opposing evidence that can prevent proof of guilt.”

It’s not wrong. Our country’s prosecutors are so excellent that once someone is indicted most people are found guilty.

Of course it is true that the main job of a criminal lawyer is to reduce the sentence and somehow obtain probation.

However there are some people who must avoid drawing the red line itself.

For example as soon as he is found guilty he stigmatizes his father as a member of the National Assembly who gave birth to a criminal calling him an unfavorable son.

“that is….”

Seong Jin-tae who was acting like he was going to give me a star hesitated and looked at me.

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But I didn’t think he would refuse to give me the logbook.

‘It’s not obvious.’

If you just pass over other work logs and say no to this one isn’t it the same as admitting that there’s something wrong with it?

In the first place there was no way a law firm like Jin & Ahn would have allowed an expert like Seong Jin-tae to write problematic information on a document that could remain as evidence.

Seong Jin-tae eventually nodded perhaps having completed a similar calculation.

“…I sent it.”

“thank you. “I think it will be a lot of learning.”

In this way I returned to school with all the materials I wanted.

And now time has passed.

<Appendix 1: Assignment>

Company B (construction company) claims employee A of Company C (contractor) for violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and violation of the Act on Punishment of Serious Accidents etc. (industrial accident fatality) in relation to the serious injury suffered by soldier A at the construction site of apartment complex A. He was charged with manslaughter.

Review each data and if necessary research and secure additional data and suggest a methodology that can lead to the most favorable ruling for Company B.

I was sitting in the study room staring at Jin & Ahn’s practical training assignment displayed on my laptop window.

“…Haaa.”

A sigh was heard from the other side.

“What is this really?”

The owner of the voice was Han Seol. It was very rare for her to sigh over a topic related to studying.

“Is this difficult for you too?”

“I’m the worst at it. “Do creative work with things you haven’t learned.”

“That’s right.”

“…I feel a little bad for admitting it so coolly don’t you?”

That was true. Although she has improved a lot since going with me it is still on the ‘predictable’ stage where she can prepare with all her might that she excels the most.

I wondered if it would be okay but decided not to worry.

‘Because he was able to do it on his own in the original work.’

It’s an unfamiliar field but you don’t have to submit it right away; there’s a one-week deadline.

Taking sufficient time to extract detailed and meticulous documents was Hanseol’s specialty.

In the original work Seong Jin-tae who was astonished by his tenacity and enthusiasm stamped his acceptance by producing a report of hundreds of pages in just one week.

‘I would do better now.’

Even if I don’t necessarily rely on my memory of the original I believe in the legends I’ve seen.

He can easily overcome this level without having to worry about my help.

“Do something well.”

“…huh.”

Hanseol who had opened his eyes as if that trust had been conveyed calmly turned his attention to his laptop.

‘Well it’s not the time to worry about others.’

Shouldn’t I first solve the problem?

<Reference Material 1: Serious Accident Punishment Act>

Act on the Punishment of Serious Accidents etc. (abbreviated name: Serious Accident Punishment Act)

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[Enforcement January 27 2022] [Law No. 17907 Enacted January 26 2021]

Chapter 1 (General Provisions)

Article 1 (Purpose) This Act applies to business owners management officials public officials and others who cause casualties by violating safety and health measures while operating business or workplace public facilities and public transportation or handling raw materials or products harmful to the human body. The purpose is to prevent major disasters and protect the lives and bodies of citizens and workers by regulating punishment of corporations.

…(syncopation)…

This may be obvious but I knew from the beginning that the Serious Accident Punishment Act would be included in this intern selection assignment.

‘Because the same thing happened in the original.’

Of course because life in law school was so busy I didn’t have time to focus on things like studying the Punishment Act for Serious Accidents.

Still compared to other students who were hit by an unexpected bomb they had time to come up with a prepared plan.

‘But that doesn’t mean I can write something like an expert.’

That must be accepted as a premise.

It is impossible to create a quality report that makes you feel like you have completely mastered a field in which you have not studied enough.

That wasn’t what Seong Jin-tae was asking for in the first place.

‘What Seong Jin-tae wanted to see in this assignment.’

That’s… In short it was about how diverse and accurate data could be secured within a given period of time to create a document that looked ‘elaborate’.

To be more specific it must look like you put a lot of effort into it so that the client feels satisfied when they see it.

In the end the most important thing about an advisory report is to make the person who requested it feel that they got their money’s worth.

It was this path that Shin Seo-jun chose in the original work.

He joined hands with an acquaintance of his who was a labor attorney attending Kangseo University Law School and created a report that seemed extremely plausible by incorporating his ideas based on expert insight.

The scary thing was that it didn’t just look like it did but actually covered all the issues that needed to be addressed.

Unfortunately how it was handled was not described in the original work and was only shown indirectly through Seong Jin-tae’s reaction so it could not be used as a reference.

Although the direction was slightly different Hanseol also achieved this in his own way.

How common is it for a client to complain when a report so thick that it needs to be transported on a cart was created in just a few days?

Practitioners who entrust work to a law firm are ultimately part of the company’s legal team and most of them are former lawyers.

When people who knew each other’s hardships well faced such a workload they had no choice but to show respect.

‘But… I can’t use those two people’s methods.’

In terms of detail it will not be able to surpass Shin Seo-jun’s and in terms of quantity it will be buried by Han Seol.

Still if I had to leave an impression with this report.

If you need to show something special.

What should I do?

‘The answer is here.’

I displayed the work logs I received from Seong Jin-tae on the screen.

The first log I clicked on was written by Seong Jin-tae when he was in charge of the ‘Matsusubashi Electronics Japanese Forced Conscription Victims Litigation’ case.

<201X.0X.XX. Work log>

11:00 / Review of documents sent from the court. Returned based on omission of some information (address etc.) to identify litigant

1:00 / Comparison of translated documentary evidence with the original. As a result of the review there were no major problems but it was returned to request correction on the basis that some text (information on using public transportation etc.) was written differently from the original.

…(syncopation)…

‘aha. It was like this.’

The Matsubashi incident was a fictitious lawsuit that took place in the worldview of ‘In the Law School’ which in the original work was only briefly mentioned as a setting about Seong Jin-tae.

The outline of my investigation after falling directly into this world was as follows.

Due to Japan’s National Mobilization Act of 1938 the people of Joseon a Japanese colony at the time were victims of forced conscription.

Some of them were taken to the mainland to work as laborers and Matsubashi was the company that oversaw the labor sites and led the production of military supplies at the time.

Decades later these victims of conscription filed an international lawsuit against Matsubashi seeking compensation for damages caused by conscription.

At this time the setting is that it was none other than Jin & An who acted as Matsubashi’s defense attorney and confronted the victims of conscription.

At this time Jin & An argued that although it is true that Matsubashi’s participation in forced labor was a morally reprehensible act Joseon citizens at the time were classified as Japanese under Japanese law so mobilizing ‘national citizens’ under the National Mobilization Act was not an illegal act. unfolded.

Naturally domestic public opinion was outraged asking what kind of bizarre nonsense this was.

Of course there was no way Jin & An where only the elite of the elite gathered could not have predicted such an outcome.

Therefore they tried to delay as much as possible from the actual commencement of the lawsuit and the trial.

Since all of the victims of conscription were very old and many had no children it was calculated that if time was delayed they would either give up the lawsuit due to deteriorating health or die and the dispute would be resolved.

When I was investigating there were a lot of stories about how ‘all kinds of methods’ were used to delay the trial but I couldn’t find out what the specific methodology was.

‘But everything is written here one by one.’

Evidence or related documents required to proceed with a lawsuit.

It seems that they wasted time by finding fault with them and sending them back.

Jin & Ahn perfectly understands which procedures must be in place and which loopholes can delay the court’s work.

Because they were such all the strategies they could adopt were written down in detail in their work diaries.

‘…is vicious.’

First of all they are old people anyway so the idea of ​​holding on until they can no longer file a lawsuit was extremely appalling.

Moreover what was really scary was that Seong Jin-tae who led this incident was not inherently a very evil or conniving person.

He worked solely with the determination to efficiently accomplish the ‘tasks’ assigned to him by the company completely excluding value judgments about the work.

There will be someone somewhere who would describe that as a professional attitude.

But I didn’t think I could do it that way.

‘But apart from that critical perspective.’

By reading these work logs it seemed clear that it was possible to analyze Jin & Ahn’s methods especially their methodology for shaping the game outside of the courtroom.

<201Y.YY.YY. Work log>

<201Z.0Z.0Z. Work log>

<201K.KK.KK work log>

I kept turning the pages. I wrote down what I needed to take note of and put a checkmark on the parts I needed to review again.

After reading for so long.

‘good. I got everything I needed.’

I finally nodded.

‘I decided on the direction a long time ago… so let’s start writing it down.’