Tokyo Barrister: Start the law firm bankruptcy

Chapter 857 Fight

In the lobby of Nippon Steel's headquarters, two lawyers stood facing each other. At this time, some contractors recognized the person behind Tanimoto as Nippon Steel's financial director, Nagai. In an instant, the crowd was in an uproar. Many contractors shouted slogans directly, demanding that Nippon Steel pay back the money.

At the same time, dozens of Nippon Steel security guards also rushed over. They formed a long defense line behind Tanimoto.

"Lawyer Kitahara. What are your demands? It's probably inappropriate to gather so many people here." On Tanimoto's face was a smile that was unique to business lawyers, but it was a smile with a dagger hidden inside.

"When you owed money, didn't you consider it inappropriate?" Kitahara also smiled. "We have just submitted the corresponding debt materials for the amount we asked Nippon Steel to repay to your headquarters staff. In the past thirty days, we have sent letters to your company to urge them to pay off all the money immediately today."

The words and tones of both of them were very calm and plain.

However, they all reveal an extremely tough taste.

At this moment, the first floor lobby of Nippon Steel's headquarters seemed to have turned into an invisible court.

The two lawyers faced off here.

Miyagawa, Niwa and others also stood beside Kitahara. Miyagawa naturally knew that Tanimoto worked at Mori Hamada Matsumoto Law Firm, a top-notch law firm. Niwa was engaged in financial reporting and had come into contact with many legal advisors of listed companies. She had also heard of the name of Mori Hamada Matsumoto Law Firm.

Tanimoto took out a booklet from his subordinates and flipped through it. "I want you to know that Nippon Steel has always been an honest and trustworthy company. The reason why the payment for the steel has not been settled is because the steel you delivered to us had quality problems.

Tanimoto is a lawyer who pays attention to every detail.

Long before he went on-site to replace the bank's lawyers, he had glanced over Nippon Steel's general due diligence materials.

Regarding the contractor's claims, even though they were not Nippon Steel's main claims, he read the relevant information in great detail and knew them by heart. This is the ultimate professionalism.

Tanimoto continued, "For example, the steel delivered by Workshop 06 has scratches and dents on the surface. Such marks are fatal to the quality of the steel. With all due respect, your steel does not meet the delivery standards. You want to hold us responsible for the delayed payment, but we did not hold you responsible for the quality of your products in return, which is good enough!"

"Lawyer Tanimoto," Kitahara said, "Please read the contract between our contractor and Nippon Steel carefully. We are only responsible for producing steel, not for transporting it. The scratches and dents on the steel in Workshop 06 that you mentioned were caused when the steel was moved from Workshop 06 to Workshop 13. They were caused by the unskilled operation of your Nippon Steel movers. How can you put the product responsibility on us!"

The top lawyer of the 200-meter club was a little surprised to hear Kitahara's quick response. Just now, Tanimoto just flipped a page from the booklet. He didn't expect that the other lawyer would know the whole story of the quality problem of one batch of steel so clearly.

"I'm afraid your problems are not limited to this," Tanimoto continued, "For example, there are also problems with light-colored spots on the steel. This is because you did not meet the corresponding cleanliness standards during the production process!"

"But - according to the contract, the cleaning agent used in steel production is supplied by your company, Nippon Steel." Kitahara retorted in an orderly manner, "The problems caused by the use of your Nippon Steel cleaning agent should not be attributed to our workshop contractor. You should settle our production costs according to the actual situation!"

Tanimoto's attack was blocked again.

This top business lawyer certainly won't admit defeat.

He immediately flipped through the booklet in his hand and showed it to everyone.

The booklet above contains a steel inspection report.

The report also included photos. Tanimoto said, "The eccentricity of the web of the steel structure you produced does not meet the standard, exceeding the allowable deviation of 2 mm. In addition, the H-beam welding was not flat during assembly, the verticality of the wing plate did not meet the standard, and the length of the positioning welds was inconsistent, and there were also problems with the size of the weld points."

"In addition to these problems, you did not drill holes in the steel structure parts according to the drawings, did not use arc angles when cutting corners, and there were deviations in the welds."

"In short, the quality of this batch of steel structures does not meet our Nippon Steel delivery standards at all!"

Tanimoto mentioned a lot of quality problems of steel in one breath.

This includes a series of professional production terms.

I can tell--

This top lawyer knows more than just the law.

Even the corresponding production process is extremely familiar to us.

Under this series of artillery attacks, Kitahara's expression remained very calm. He also took out the test report that was also in Tanimoto's hand.

Beiyuan pointed to the column of inspection materials and said:

"The steel you tested did not state the extraction process. Moreover, the workshop shown in the photo is not our contractor's workshop. Regarding the report on the unqualified steel test, I have serious doubts about whether the product tested was produced by our contractor! It is possible that you are trying to smear our contractor in order to delay payment!!"

This young male lawyer did not directly refute the steel quality defects

Instead, they seized on the fact that the inspected steel did not come from the contractor's workshop and launched a counterattack.

It feels like a small effort with great results.

It is not a matter of refuting each link in the enemy's chain of reasoning.

Instead, it uproots the starting point of the chain of reasoning.

Tanimoto was a little unhappy when he heard this, and his business smile disappeared. "Mr. Kitahara, if you discuss the problem this way, it's too insincere. You are treating this as a court debate. If a company cannot face its own problems honestly and frankly, then what else is there to discuss?"

"What you are doing -" Tanimoto continued, "is to cross-examine the evidence in court. Lawyer Kitahara, do you think this attitude is appropriate? Are you really sincere in coming to negotiate the settlement with us, Nippon Steel?! Are you really here to solve the problem, or are you just trying to show off your words!"

"If you are so aggressive and treat business negotiations as court debates, then you might as well sue Nippon Steel!" Tanimoto's tough voice echoed in the lobby.

(End of this chapter)