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On June 17, a team of partners from Shanghai BillionsLawyer LLP paid a visit to the Law School of East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) to hold discussions and exchanges on deepening cooperation and collaborative talent cultivation. Wang Huiwen, Dean of the ECUST Law School, and Zhou Dengliang, Vice Dean, gave a warm reception to the visitors. Both sides had in-depth discussions on joint practical training, resource sharing, joint talent development and distinctive cooperation initiatives. The exchange forum was presided over by Dean Wang Huiwen.

 

At the forum, Attorney Zhang Xu introduced the general profile of Shanghai BillionsLawyer LLP. He stated that since its establishment in 2020, the firm has grown into a professional team comprising dozens of practicing lawyers, alongside many university professors serving as part-time lawyers and senior consultants. Its service scope covers cross-border trade and investment dispute resolution, corporate and commercial affairs, finance and taxation law, criminal compliance and defense, intellectual property, foreign-related legal services and banking & finance, with distinctive strengths in securities legal services and tax dispute resolution. Attorney Zhang Xu emphasized that Shanghai BillionsLawyer LLP always adheres to professional operation and attaches great importance to talent development. The ECUST Law School boasts profound academic heritage and focuses on featured fields including science and technology legal compliance, commercial legal affairs, data rule of law and intellectual property. It features a precise school-running orientation and distinctive disciplines, and its talent cultivation system balances academic literacy and practical capabilities. Over the years, the school has delivered a large number of outstanding interdisciplinary legal professionals to the legal industry, wielding remarkable influence in both academic and industrial circles, and has long served as a benchmark for Shanghai BillionsLawyer LLP to learn from. The visit aims to leverage the Law School’s profound academic foundation and disciplinary strengths to build a long-term and stable cooperative relationship in practical teaching, research projects and talent supply, jointly cultivating outstanding legal talents with broad vision and strong practical capabilities.

 

Dean Wang Huiwen extended a warm welcome to the partner team of Shanghai BillionsLawyer LLP and introduced the school-running history and disciplinary characteristics of the ECUST Law School. He pointed out that rooted in the solid foundation of ECUST, the Law School has long centered its work on talent cultivation and pursued distinctive development paths. While consolidating foundational legal disciplines, it has built featured academic sectors such as artificial intelligence law, foreign-related rule of law, intellectual property, environmental and energy law, and developed unique talent training models and research orientations. The university took the lead in launching the Experimental Class for Foreign-related Science and Technology Legal Talents and has made breakthroughs in recruiting national high-level talents and winning major academic awards. Dean Wang Huiwen expressed his expectation that the two parties could complement each other’s strengths, share resources, and carry out in-depth differentiated and featured cooperation in scientific research and talent cultivation.

Vice Dean Zhou Dengliang gave a systematic overview of the Law School’s external exchange and cooperation programs. He proposed that both sides could take joint talent training as the core starting point to sustain long-term featured cooperation in scientific research, disciplinary competitions and practical projects, jointly explore niche academic fields and achieve mutual support and common progress.

During the free exchange session, both parties exchanged views on business expansion, project cooperation, talent training, career guidance and educational donation. They reached a consensus that the two sides could fully integrate practical experience and academic resources: the Law School could provide think tank support for the firm’s legal practice, while the firm would facilitate integrated theoretical-and-practical training for law students, realizing two-way empowerment and mutual growth.

2026 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the ECUST Law School. This exchange has laid a solid foundation for future bilateral cooperation. Both sides stated that they will take this negotiation as a new starting point to forge ahead hand in hand, integrate resources, jointly create an innovative distinctive model of industry-education integration, conduct differentiated featured cooperation in research and talent cultivation, realize complementary advantages and resource sharing, cultivate more outstanding professionals for the construction of a law-based China, and contribute to the advancement of the rule of law.

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