The Introduction of Sinolaws
 

Past and Present

In December 1999, Mr Weidong Xie, former judge of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, with 10 years of judicial score and 7 years score of private legal practice, realized sharply that, following China's entry into the WTO, demand for Chinese legal services worldwide would be colossal, and that meeting this demand would be something of great importance, being not only economically very profitable but also beneficial to the nation and the world. In January 2000, Mr Xie decided to leave the Supreme People's Court, to use the high-tech based Internet, to take the advantage of the chances brought by China's eminent entry into the WTO, and set up the Chinese Legal Services Network ------ Sinolaws, whose core services are Chinese law information, legal consultation and legal representation.

Mission and goals

Sinolaws' mission is to provide first class China law services to the whole world along with China's entry into the WTO. Sinolaws' goal is to become a world class consulting firm and to play a leading role in China law services worldwide.
Products/Service
Sinolaws provides 3 core services including legal information, consultation and representation.
Sinolaws can provide all kinds of legal services to our clients. Our clients can first find out relevant laws and regulations through our information database, understand the issues involved through our consultation system, and then hand over the case to Sinolaws' lawyers for legal representation.

Legal information provided by Sinolaws has the following characteristics: comprehensive, updated, authoritative, practical, scientifically sorted and user friendly. Sinolaws has the most complete China law database with over 60,000 items of laws and related documents. The English data is over 7,000,000 words. All the sources are original, including laws enacted by National People's Congress, laws and regulations issued by the State Council, rules promulgated by ministries, commissions, local authorities, judicial interpretations issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, cases, and samples of contracts and court documents.

Sinolaws' legal consultation services are: professional, authoritative, and problem solving oriented. Moreover, we can use both Chinese and English to serve our clients. Sinolaws has its own voluminous auto answering database. Quality of consultation relies upon the quality of the consultants. There are a large group of Chinese legal experts working for Sinolaws to guarantee the reputation and quality of its services. Sinolaws can provide various forms of consultations, such as experts' argumentation, legal crisis solution plan, online contract examination, online litigation and arbitration documents examination, to meet different needs of our clients.

Through Sinolaws law firm, our allied law firms countrywide and worldwide, Sinolaws can provide legal representations in areas such as litigation, negotiation and arbitration for our clients. Our clients may find lawyers who are the best to their special needs through Sinolaws' law firm platform and lawyers searching system. Sinolaws' legal representation system is sufficient to meet the needs of our clients for their globalization and growth in size.

Characteristics of Sinolaws services
Sinolaws has the following advantages compared with traditional law firms:
Authority: Sinolaws has the most distinguished Chinese law experts.
score: Hands-on score determines problem-solving capability. Sinolaws experts are all very experienced; law has been their life-long career.
Diversity: Due to its nature, Sinolaws offers varieties of legal services.
Speed and convenience: With most updated technology, Sinolaws can offer our clients timely services at their convenience, no matter where they are located and when they need our service.
Safe and in confidence: Sinolaws has the sound management system to protect the business secret or privacy of our members. Online consultation maximizes the confidentiality since it doesn't have to talk with lawyers face to face which greatly avoid revealing the clients' information.
High quality but low price: With the scale of services provided through the Internet, Sinolaws can afford to offer high quality services but to charge lower fees than traditional law firms.

Management
Sinolaws has gathered a group of people, who knows well of legal services, Internet services, product development, business development, and marketing. It has an outstanding management team.
Weidong Xie, Chairman and CEO
BA (Harbing Normal); LLM (Heilongjiang)
Mr Xie is the founder of Sinolaws. Before founding Sinolaws, Mr Xie worked as a judge in the Supreme People's Court of the PRC for 10 years, heard quite a number of influential cases, some of which were published in the Bulletin of Supreme People's Court. Before working in the Supreme People's Court, Mr Xie also worked as a lawyer for 7 years.

Mr Xie has published widely. He has authored or edited, co-authored or co-edited the following books: Real Estate Law Handbook; Insurance Law Handbook; Contact Law Handbook; Securities Law Handbook; Civil Law Handbook and Encyclopaedia for Laws of China. Mr Xie is also a frequent contributor to a wide range of journals and newspapers for a wide range of issues. Mr Xie has built up a wide network with the communities of academia, business, and government during his years of judicial and private practice. Mr Xie knows both the law and the Internet very well. Mr Xie is firm, persist, full of creativity.

Ping Jiang, Chief Consultant of Sinolaws

Professor Jiang is a leading jurist in the PRC. He is a member of the Academic Committee of China University of Political Science and Law, the director of Beijing Arbitration Committee. He

was awarded the honourary law professor by Ghent University of Belgium in 1988.
Since 1982, positions held by Professor Jiang include Vice-president and President of China University of Political Science and Law, member of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress, Vice-director of the Legal Committee of the Standing Committee of the seventh National People's Congress, Vice-chairman of China Law Society, editor of the Volume of Law of Encyclopaedia of China, and editor-in-chief of the part of civil law of that encyclopaedia, chief editor of China Judicatory Dictionary. Professor Jiang has authored quite a number of books and numerous articles. He has drafted a number of laws. Professor Jiang is currently the chief drafter of Civil Code of the PRC.

Liming Wang, Consultant of Sinolaws

Professor, vice-president and, supervisor of PhD students of the Law School of the People's University. Professor Wang is a member of the Ninth National People's Congress, a member of the Finance and Economic Committee of the National People's Congress, an expert consultant of he Supreme People's Court, the People's Supreme Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and High Court of Beijing. He is also a member of the Law Directing Committee of the Ministry of Education and a member of the National Self-study Examination Committee on Law.

Professor Wang is the first PhD degree earner in civil law in New China. He was a senior visiting fellow in the University of Michigan during 1989 and 1990, and in Harvard University during 1998 and 1999. Professor Wang has authored over 20 books and 100 articles. He was honoured with the name of "China's Distinguished PhD Earner" in 1992, and that of "China's Ten Grand Outstanding Young Scholars in Law".

Sinolaws Business Partners
Current partners include: Legal School of People's University of China, Beijing Arbitration Commission, China Behavior Law Society, Meetchina.com, Yescanada, Fonder Computer Co. Ltd. Legend Group, ejiajia.com of TCL group, sohu.com, Hongkong Fellow Co., Seoul Culture & Trade House, Elevator Advertising Network, China Business Associates, Inc.