Interview | With professional achievement excellence, with love to the mountains and seas—lawyer Ma Xinli

“Introduction"

Legal life, wisdom such as the sea, the original heart such as Qing, de Wo peer.

Every lawyer of Dehehantong has the original intention of serving the people, adhering to the service concept of“diligence, ingenuity, and perfection", striding forward on the road of the rule of law with high fighting spirit, and shining in the field of their love.

Dehehantong“profile interview", invite you to walk into the diverse life of Dehehantong people.

Introduction of lawyer Ma Xinli

Ms. Ma Xinli is a senior partner of Dehehantong Shanghai Office. Focusing on the field of labor and employment legal services, she has long provided high-quality legal services to well-known international and domestic enterprises and corporate senior executives, and has rich legal practice experience.

In The list of China Mainland 2023 and 2024 published by The Legal 500, an internationally renowned legal rating agency, the company was awarded the honorary title of Practice head(s) in the field of labor and employment for two consecutive years.

Standing at the crossroads of life,

Every choice means giving up other possibilities.

Since practicing law,

Ma Xinli specializes in labor and employment legal services.

Unlike other lawyers who work in multiple fields, she often asks herself:

“Should you specialize in one area, or should you look at a wide range of areas?"

Her heart pointed to an answer,

“The pursuit of ultimate professionalism in the field of excellence".

Today, let's follow DeXiaohe,

Enter the legal life of lawyer Ma Xinli.

1.Adhere to systematic thinking and maintain all-round thinking

Ma Xinli has a comprehensive background in FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) legal services and international exchanges in universities. Since the beginning of her practice, she has been committed to providing quality legal services to well-known international and domestic enterprises and their senior managers.

“When providing legal services to companies, we need to consider more than just resolving a single legal dispute, but taking a holistic view. For example, when facing the service needs of customers, we must go beyond the legal level and consider the overall solution of the incident, looking for the optimal solution according to the style and needs of different enterprises, such as corporate culture, internal reporting, and the social impact that enterprises attach importance to. Therefore, I always adhere to a diversified and systematic way of thinking in my work."

In this interview, lawyer Ma Xinli shared her experience and skills accumulated in the process of serving enterprises, including how to carry out effective expectation management, help enterprises avoid compliance risks, and how to deal with each customer's problems in detail. All-round thinking and forward-looking prediction of risks are essential for aluminum plating service work.

In the process of providing routine legal services for enterprises, Lawyer Ma Xinli has a systematic working method -- in-depth counseling in the early stage, building a strong risk prevention and control fortress, providing enterprises with forward-looking early warning of labor legal risks, and customizing practical countermeasures; In the interim, we will fully empower the employment management system of enterprises, and carefully create a series of labor laws and regulations training courses for enterprise management and human resources department, explaining the legal risk points and coping skills in the process of labor employment, so as to comprehensively improve the standardization, legitimacy and science of management; In the later stage, maintain regular and close communication with the enterprise, like the enterprise version of“legal health doctor", understand the employment dynamics of the enterprise in real time, accurately insight into potential labor disputes, and assist the company to properly deal with them.

Lawyer Ma Xinli also said:“For customers who have long-term cooperation or need daily consultation, we will feedback our service experience through different forms, summarize the service content of a certain cycle, and put forward improvement suggestions for the specific legal problems existing in the company." This not only allows clients to deeply understand our service results, but also truly feel our cultural concept of“becoming a legal service agency with temperature and influence". What we pursue is not only professional legal services, but also delivering temperature in the service.

“Stick to the areas you are good at, and tread carefully in the areas you are not good at trial and error." Lawyer Ma Xinli has built a solid labor legal protection system for enterprises through all-round and multi-level professional services. This achievement is not only the crystallization of her perseverance and love, but also the source of her perseverance. “You don't have to be great to be successful. You just have to be a little bit more professional than everyone else for a long, long time."

2. Boost“Professionalism" with “Specialization"

With profound legal practice experience, Lawyer Ma Xinli has always adhered to the work attitude of excellence on the road of professional development. Looking back on her career, she exudes humility and pride.

In the critical stage of a cloud computing technology company's preparation for listing, Ms. Ma Xinli, as the company's labor law lawyer, helped the company successfully obtain the ISO 37301:2021 compliance management system certification.

In this interview, Lawyer Ma Xinli shared her practical experience and profound insights in the construction of enterprise compliance management system. In the construction of an enterprise's labor compliance management system, a comprehensive and detailed audit of the company's existing labor and employment situation is the basic work, including the review of the processes and documents of employee recruitment, on-boarding, in-service management, performance appraisal, compensation and benefits, dimission and other links. Based on the audit results, combined with labor laws and regulations and compliance requirements of listed companies, a series of key labor and employment management documents were revised and improved to ensure legal compliance of the process. Lawyer Ma Xinli stressed that it is crucial to help enterprises comprehensively update the labor management system, clarify the rights and obligations of employees, regulate the company's management behavior, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of both companies and employees.

In addition, Lawyer Ma Xinli not only rigorously revised the text of various labor-related contracts such as labor contracts, labor agreements, confidentiality agreements, and non-competition agreements, but also paid special attention to the contents of confidentiality and non-competition agreements, accurately defining the scope of confidential information, the period and scope of non-competition restrictions, and the liability for breach of contract. Provide solid legal support for the steady development of the company in the capital market.

With many years of professional labor law knowledge and rich practical experience, lawyer Ma Xinli continues to explore and move forward in her field of expertise. For the new laws and regulations introduced every year, she always pays attention to them in the first time and integrates them into the working method, seeking a qualitative leap. “Each of us is a lonely runner, but it is these seemingly small accumulations that finally allow us to achieve a magnificent turn from quantitative change to qualitative change." She said this, expressing her insistence on professionalism and deep insight into personal growth.

3.Professional achievement excellence, with love to write life

“With the economic development in recent years, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises have gradually played a more important role in the market, so the proportion of services provided by state-owned enterprises and private enterprises has increased year by year." Ma Xinli, a lawyer, said in an interview, “Compared with foreign companies, domestic companies have more traditional concepts in employment and management, especially in personnel management. However, with the gradual improvement of the law and the standardization of labor management, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises have become more comprehensive and detailed in terms of labor law protection." Lawyer Ma Xinli foresees that in the future, legal services will cover a wider group of enterprises and provide professional legal support for more enterprises and employees.

On her way to practice law, Lawyer Ma Xinli is undoubtedly lucky. She has been responsible for leading the team, maintaining customer relationships, and expanding social resources. It is this responsibility and challenge that has enabled her to grow rapidly in this field, not only in business excellence, but also in team management. However, she knows that the so-called “luck" is not an accident, but a combination of chance and hard work. She once said, “Luck is where opportunity meets effort." In the process of practicing, lawyer Ma Xinli always adheres to the professional development path and solves the practical problems of clients with her own expertise, which is the main reason why clients choose her.

In terms of personal feelings, lawyer Ma Xinli also conveyed a deep empathy to her clients. Facing the challenges of the current economic downturn, she expressed her desire to overcome difficulties together with her clients. She believes that life is not only about the exchange of interests, but also about the achievement and warmth between each other.

In her work, Ma Xinli is famous for her systematic and comprehensive professional and rigorous style, but in her life, she has a sense of contrast. Her lifestyle is more casual, pursuing a sense of ease and relaxation - at her own pace, to do what she truly loves. In her spare time, Ms. Ma especially enjoys immersing herself in books on history and humanities and social sciences. In this era of information explosion and fragmentation, she insists on reading, looking for a quiet spiritual habitat.

Her life creed is to keep moving forward, and professionalism is her constant pursuit. At any moment, as long as you have excellent professional ability in your field of expertise, you can show incomparable confidence and charm. Because of her focus and professionalism, we look forward to Lawyer Ma Xinli being able to stand at the peak of her career in the future and overlook the scenery she longs to see. May we all be able to achieve excellence in our profession and write life with love in our own field.