Throughout the world, legal service agencies are becoming increasingly large-scale, professional, international, and branded. Eye on China, to be larger, stronger and better has become the development trend of law firms.
In January 1993, ETR Law Firm was established and became one of the earliest cooperative law firms in Guangdong Province;
In November 2012, ETR Law Firm was restructured into the first law firm in a form of Special General Partnership in Guangdong Province.
In June 2017, ETR Law Firm settled in the highest office building in Guangzhou, with an office area of over 7,000 square meters.
Party building facilitating firm construction
Firm construction promoting the development
Party building has become an important driving force for the development of ETR Law Firm.
In November 2016, the Party Committee of ETR Law Firm was established, which is the first Party Committee among law firms in Guangdong Province.
Party members are the backbone of the law firm’s cultural construction. Under the leadership of Zhang Xun, our firm’s Party Secretary, our chorus participated in the theme activities like the “Constitution Propaganda Week”, which was reported by CCTV. Our firm’s Branch Secretary of the Communist Youth League led the sports team to participate in the Guangzhou Lawyers Association Games and won the first place for four consecutive years. Our firm’s Office Director of Party Committee led the debate team to participate in the provincial and municipal public prosecutor lawyer defense competition, and all awarded the best debater.
In August 2017, the Party Committee of our firm was rated as “Provincial Model of Party Building in the Lawyer Industry of Guangdong Province”;
In July 2018, our firm’s Party Committee was awarded as the “Advanced Party Organization of the National Lawyer Industry” by the Party Committee of the National Lawyer Industry.
Develop towards Large-scale
Endeavor towards Specialization
Steps towards Internationalization
ETR Law Firm is headquartered in Guangzhou with branches in Beijing，Shanghai, Hainan, and oversea offices in the USA , Japan, Cambodia, providing legal services for Chinese and foreign clients.
ETR Law Firm has more than 1100 employees in total, including more than 700 lawyers. Our legal services cover more than 20 fields such as finance, investment, real estate, science and technology, environmental protection, administration, litigation, etc. Our firm is capable of providing clients with integrated legal service solutions.
Our firm is actively expanding our foreign legal services. In November 2019, four lawyers participated in the China Forum on International Legal Cooperation and delivered keynote speeches; while in December, as the representatives or volunteers, 11 lawyers participated in the Global Lawyers Forum, and honored the praise by the authority.
With the “Belt and Road” initiative and the improvement of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, our firm will further expand our overseas offices to provide legal services on ODI for Chinese enterprises and FDI for foreign investors.
Assume Social Responsibility
ETR Law Firm encourages lawyers to take social responsibility. By June 2020, our lawyers have provided legal services to 263 villages (communities) in the province. Our firm’s Party Committee called on lawyers to take part in targeted poverty alleviation. They paired up with students from poor mountainous areas, donated health stations and held charity auctions to raise funds for the impoverished students.
At the beginning of 2020, with the outbreak of the COVID-19, our firm set up a COVID-19 service team to provide legal guarantee for the resumption of work and production; and mobilized the staff to donate money and participate in epidemic prevention activities in the community. Lawyer Wang Xiaohua submitted urgent bill to the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference to help solving the shortage of epidemic prevention materials such as masks and ventilators. Our firm provided two-year free legal consultation and civil litigation services for Guangdong medical workers who assisted and rescued Hubei Province; and held a special forum to discuss the response to malicious litigation in foreign countries. Our firm’s work against the epidemic was reported by Democracy & Legal System and selected by the Learning Power.
After the promulgation of the Civil Code, our firm organized lawyers to study hard, set up the propaganda team, and actively participated in the publicity activities organized by provinces and municipalities, so that the people can know and be familiar with the Civil Code.
Since the establishment of ETR Law Firm, with excellent teams, qualified service and standardized operations, we have been awarded the honorary title of “National Civilized Service Window of Legal Service Industry” and “Ministerial Civilized Law Firm” by the Ministry of Justice, the “National Excellent Law Firm” and other honorary titles by the National Bar Association, and named as “the Best Law Firm in South China” by Asian Law Magazine (ALB) and other organizations for years. We were the only perennial legal counsel for the 16th (Guangzhou) Asian Games .
ETR Law Firm will continue to uphold our core value of “Efficiency, Trust and Responsibility” and provide quality legal services for our clients; Centering on the Party and the government, we will serve the overall interests of national development and make due contributions to the construction of the rule of law in China.