As a partnership law firm, Sino operates under a profit-and-loss shared structure by all partners, who bear joint and several unlimited liability for the firm’s debts. Beneath the Partners General Meeting, an Executive Partners Meeting is established to make major decisions for the firm. The Sino Management Committee serves as the firm’s standing management body.
In particular, Sino has set up a Business Steering Committee, which is uniformly responsible for the management of each business department and professional committee, the review of case acceptance and closing, business guidance, annual assessment, conflict of interest review and coordination, sensitive case filing, and research on difficult and complex cases to realize the team-based, professional, sector-focused and refined practice of legal services.
Sino has specially set up a Lawyer Practice Ethics and Discipline Committee to achieve practice integrity, put an end to false publicity, and jointly elevate lawyers’ professional ethics and discipline. In accordance with lawyer supervision regulations, it assesses, guides and supervises lawyers' compliance with professional ethics and discipline norms in their practice activities, and accepts and handles all client complaints in a timely manner.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Charter of Sino, the firm has established a Party Committee with 7 Party Branches. It ensures the firm’s political orientation, disseminates and implements the resolutions of the Party organization, organizes the study of the Party’s innovative theories, and supervises the firm’s lawful and integrity-based practice.
In accordance with regulatory laws and regulations for lawyers, Sino promises to keep confidential the trade secrets of clients disclosed during the practice of law and shall not disclose the privacy of clients. Not accept the property or other interests of the other party, and not collude with the other party or a third party to damage the rights and interests of the client; If any loss is caused to the client due to the fault of Sino lawyers, Sino will pay compensation.
According to the strictly regulation on the supervision of lawyers, the judicial administration department is the supervision department for the practice of lawyers and has the power to impose administrative penalties on the illegal acts of lawyers and law firms. The lawyers’ associations may also impose discipline on lawyers and law firms. Clients can complain to judicial administrative organs and the associations about lawyers' violations of law and discipline.
