Chapter 17 – They Drain a Person’s Blood with Lawsuits

Cha Ra-ri spoke to the middle-aged woman who was still panting after pouring out curses at the men.

“Hello.”

“Huh…? Yes, what is it?”

The woman was wary at the sudden greeting, looking with suspicious eyes. A young woman with a friendly smile was standing right in front of the woman.

‘What is this woman…?’

Without erasing her friendly smile, Cha Ra-ri slowly began to reduce the woman’s distrust and wariness.

Cha Ra-ri was a born people person since childhood.

That is, she was a person with good friendliness with people. Her greatest strength was that she could make anyone her best friend if given about five minutes. Moreover, she had mastered various qualifications to strengthen her strong points.

‘This time, let’s utilize the social interaction stage through laughter. I learned it in the laughter therapist course in the past.’

First, empathy.

Keeping her smile, Cha Ra-ri lowered her voice slightly and gently, and slowly started speaking.

“I was startled to see them pushing away such a weak lady while walking by.”

At Cha Ra-ri’s calm yet sympathy-filled voice, the woman showed a sign of softening slightly.

“Ah… well…”

Second, stabilization.

Speak while breathing into the conversation to lead the other party to calm down.

“You must have been really surprised. Are you okay?”

“Yes… I am okay now. Those bastards suddenly pushed me… I was just a bit startled.”

Third, transition of atmosphere.

Once the other party has calmed down to some extent, stimulate curiosity with empathy-inducing questions to transition the atmosphere.

“Oh my, really? Those men were holding your shoulders very threateningly earlier. It seems you are still in a bit of pain, by any chance you aren’t hurt, right?”

As Cha Ra-ri supported the woman slightly and spoke, the woman, whose wariness had loosened, naturally continued a few words.

“Oh, you have no idea. This place here. They are the most vicious of the vicious.”

“Oh my, where is this place?”

Cha Ra-ri knew very well where this place was. Since she came looking for it on purpose.

This is in front of Law Firm Gankyeok.

“This building is a lawyer’s office called ‘Gankyeok’, and they completely drain a person’s blood with lawsuits.”

Cha Ra-ri played dumb and pretended not to know, chiming in with the woman’s words.

“Oh my, really? So this was ‘Gankyeok’… I also work in this field… and I heard rumors that this place is not very good.”

Hearing that, the woman suddenly grabbed Cha Ra-ri’s hand tightly, as if someone who understood her grievances had appeared.

“Right! They are bad guys, right? Everyone only says I was wrong… These guys are very bad bastards.”

“Oh dear, what kind of case is it to be like that? By the way, you know, unnie. Or by any chance, are you my younger sister? You are in your 30s… right?”

At Cha Ra-ri’s words, the woman’s face turned red and she covered her face with her hands.

“Oh my! Look at this young lady. What do you mean I’m in my 30s?”

“Aren’t you in your 30s? Are you younger? I’m sorry. I guess I saw you as older.”

“No, what do you mean 30s. I’ll be fifty soon.”

“Oh my, really? Since you only look about the same age as me…”

“Ohohoho, really? I was so furious today that I couldn’t even put on makeup before coming.”

“I see. If you weren’t angry, you would be much more of a beauty.”

“Right, right. If it weren’t for these guys, I wouldn’t have any reason to be angry like this.”

“But what is the matter?”

“Well, I got entangled in a very nasty case. Simply put, I tried to do something righteous and helped someone, but these guys from a law firm or whatever keep suing me day in and day out.

I was also a bit scared because they said court notice or whatever.

So I went around looking for lawyers, but when I say the opponent is Gankyeok here, no one would take it. How nastily they must have behaved…”

“Ah, really? But our attorney won against Gankyeok recently. He even got about 2.5 billion won in property division.”

“My goodness? 2.5 billion won in property division?”

“Yes, our attorney said cases against Gankyeok aren’t even that difficult?”

Cha Ra-ri wore a sly expression.

“Oh my, really? I am lucky today. Meeting a young lady, no, a younger sister like you! By any chance, do you have the attorney’s contact info?”

“Of course. By the way, would you like a drink? I bought it on my way to the office, and since you were startled, unnie, drink some vitamins and cheer up again.”

“Ah, really? Thank you.”

Cha Ra-ri opened the cap herself and handed it to the woman.

‘If you add a little hope on top of a small favor… acceptance of cases is bound to follow. And I get closer to the Ferrari.’

When the woman drank all the Vita 600 on the spot as if thirsty, Cha Ra-ri handed over her business card. The woman nodded and put the business card gently in her wallet.

Like that, Cha Ra-ri approached the people in front of Law Firm Gankyeok’s building who were driven out, venting their grievances, swearing, or doing one-person protests. And she began to present business cards one by one.

Since they heard there is an attorney who specializes in handling cases against Gankyeok, which everyone else avoids, the atmosphere changed.

People reached out their hands, one and all, to get Cha Ra-ri’s business card.

Cha Ra-ri grinned in her mind.

‘PR is done strategically like this.’

***

That afternoon.

The woman who received the business card from Cha Ra-ri opened the door of Teum Law Office and entered.

“Hello? I came here after receiving a recommendation?”

The staff sitting at the information desk saw the business card the woman presented and contacted Office Manager Ju Yong-hae. Soon, the woman was guided by Office Manager Ju Yong-hae into the consultation room,

And meanwhile, talk went back and forth among the staff.

“No, but who puts ‘Field Office Manager’ as a title on their business card? It’s flustering every time the visitors present that business card.”

When the info staff spat out, Assistant Manager Kim looked into the business card handed over and tilted his head.

“But Cha Ra-ri-ssi. Where did she make this business card? She seems to have done it alone without asking about the template. What is employee, field office manager? This is my first time seeing someone use such an unofficial title on their business card.”

As Assistant Manager Kim laughed as if it were absurd, Office Manager Yeom chimed in from the side.

“Did you say Cha Ra-ri-ssi? Because that person is extremely unusual, Office Manager Ju is hidden right now. Office Manager Ju is also unusual at times. It’s just that there were no cases for a while, but originally, isn’t he a swindler, a swindler? That gentleman is also no ordinary person.”

Everyone nodded at Office Manager Yeom’s words.

***

On one side of Attorney Geum Nae-yeong’s office, at the consultation table.

Rustle—line—drag.

Attorney Seong Seok-ju was currently suffering as if he had signed a slave contract. Because on top of the preparatory document he had written, Attorney Geum Nae-yeong was drawing lines with a red color pencil.

“Rather than this logic, it is much more advantageous to quote the Supreme Court ruling 15Da158841 for this part.”

At Geum Nae-yeong’s voice cutting it off coldly, Attorney Seong Seok-ju’s mood was ruined.

He was already an experienced lawyer of 6 years. He was also a lawyer recognized in Jepyongyang for his skills. Seong Seok-ju immediately refuted.

“No. For this case, it is rather more persuasive to put forward the claim regarding the ‘arrival of the period’.”

But Geum Nae-yeong organized Seong Seok-ju’s opinion in a single blow.

“The final decision right on the submitted documents is with me, not the associate attorney.”

Geum Nae-yeong raised the pen he held in his hand and pointed to the frame hanging on the wall. Inside the frame, the agreement signed by the three of them was carefully inserted.

Seeing that sight, Seong Seok-ju let out a low sigh.

“Damn it…”

While the two were bickering like this, there was a knock.

“Attorney, a consultation case has come in.”

Office Manager Ju Yong-hae poked his head through the door.

“Ah, yes. Please come in.”

“Hello, Attorney. I am Jeong Geum-hui.”

Teum Law Office, which she came to through Cha Ra-ri’s introduction.

Jeong Geum-hui-ssi was surprised several times here.

First, the building was too shabby compared to Gankyeok. And second, Geum Nae-yeong’s face.

According to Cha Ra-ri’s words, he was a skilled attorney who won against Gankyeok, so she had expected an older attorney, but the man in front of her eyes was too young.

Office Manager Ju Yong-hae explained the situation with a troubled face.

“This is the client introduced by Cha Ra-ri-ssi. She was sued by Law Firm Gankyeok.”

While organizing the documents Geum Nae-yeong had ordered, Attorney Seong Seok-ju muttered in his mind.

‘He took another Gankyeok lawsuit? Is he in his right mind, making things troublesome for no reason…’

On the other hand, the moment Attorney Geum Nae-yeong heard Office Manager Ju’s words, he put on a welcoming face.

“Ah! Gankyeok! That’s excellent.”

As Geum Nae-yeong called the Gankyeok lawsuit ‘excellent’, the face of Jeong Geum-hui, who had been rejected by several attorneys, brightened up.

“What kind of lawsuit were you sued with right now?”

At Geum Nae-yeong’s question, Jeong Geum-hui began her story.

“Well… the beginning was the problem. A friend named Gong Chun-hui, who was the president of the local girls’ high school alumni association, bought meals for the alumni, saying she was running for the county council.

While buying meals, she handed out gift certificates. Since everyone got married and lived there for a long time, if you capture the alumni association well, winning the county council is not even a problem.

But somehow a report went in, and Gong Chun-hui got caught for violating the election law. When the police went around checking facts with the alumni members, since I couldn’t lie, I just said I received it. But returned it without using it.

Whether that was the trigger, while Gong Chun-hui was receiving trial, I had to go back and forth to the court as a witness and all,

And one day a Law Firm Gankyeok staff came and asked me to ‘just say I don’t remember’, and when I refused, they began to pick all sorts of fights from then on.

Suddenly the county said I took electricity carelessly and used it wrongfully, and that the cowshed where we raise cows at our house is unauthorized, and things kept flying in…

Then ultimately, I was sued for defamation, claiming I said things I never said.”

“Ah, this is the indictment.”

Geum Nae-yeong turned the documents.

“The public trial is ongoing, and you are receiving trial in a non-detained state?”

“Yes… but they said at this rate I could receive a fine or even live in prison for a few months?”

“Yes, that could happen.”

Geum Nae-yeong turned the documents indifferently.

“A witness is coming to the next trial too?”

“Yes, but since those witnesses are people I did a rotating savings club with about 7 years ago, they will give disadvantageous testimony against me.”

“A savings club?”

“Yes. Actually, I did a savings club with close people… but since my child suddenly got sick, I shouldn’t have done it but I ended up spending a bit of that money. From then on the savings club broke, and the relationship among the members turned bad.”

“Ah…”

Geum Nae-yeong thought for a moment and marked something on the paper. And he said mechanically with an expressionless face.

“The retainer fee is 100,000 won. When suing the opponent for false accusation after receiving a not-guilty verdict, it is separate.

“Pardon? One hundred thousand won?”

When the woman’s eyes went wide at the nonsensically small retainer fee, Geum Nae-yeong added.

“I will make sure the retainer fee you spent on me is compensated later through a civil damages lawsuit against Gong Chun-hui-ssi.

And we will claim and receive alimony for mental damage, attorney fees for defending the prosecuted case, and attorney fees for claiming the civil lawsuit from their side.”

“Pardon?”

“In conclusion, there is no money you will spend, Jeong Geum-hui-ssi. Rather, you will receive about 5 million won as alimony from the opponent, and we will receive a total of 6.1 million won as the attorney retainer fee.”

“I will receive five million won?”

“Yes. That is the result.”

“And why is the attorney fee so cheap?”

When the woman asked back in surprise, Geum Nae-yeong said without his expression changing.

“Cases that are easy to win are originally charged cheap. High volume, low margin.”