At 10:5 a.m., there was an advertisement on the giant electronic screen in the square next to Ginza in Tokyo. As the screen flashed, it suddenly switched to the broadcast content of Asahi News Channel. A dignified-looking woman wearing a light pink suit jacket.

The host kept glancing down at the manuscript in his hand, as if because the manuscript was suddenly added, he said nervously with some unfamiliarity:

"The latest news. The latest news. Just over half an hour ago, Eto Law Firm held a press conference to announce the launch of a class action lawsuit against Kawamoto Expressway. According to reports from reporters on the scene, the reason for launching the class action lawsuit was the Kawamoto Expressway's maintenance of the highway.

Systemic flaws. The lawyers involved claimed that the data they collected showed that the accident rate and accident fatality rate of Kawamoto Expressway's highways were significantly higher than those of other highway companies."

"According to their claims, more than 70,000 traffic accident liability documents in the past three years alone mentioned that roads under the Kawamoto Expressway had road obstacles that were not cleared in time."

The female host lowered her head slightly and continued to scan the manuscript downwards. However, at the moment of scanning downwards, she seemed to be half shocked by the content of the manuscript, and her standard voice, which was always full of professionalism, also started to tremble.

"In other words, the class action lawsuit initiated by Jiang Teng Law Firm could theoretically reach 70,000 people. Even if calculated with a prosecution rate of 25%, the number of people suing has reached an astonishing 17,000 people. This

The number is now second only to the four major public nuisance lawsuits in the past: Niigata Minamata Disease lawsuit, Itai disease lawsuit, asthma lawsuit and Kumamoto Minamata disease lawsuit!”

Upon hearing the huge number of lawsuits, many people in the busy office crowd outside Ginza stopped on the sidewalk and watched the news on the screen.

"So far, the stock price decline of Kawamoto Expressway has expanded by 11%!" The hostess raised her head and finished the last sentence of the news broadcast.

The class action lawsuit against Kawamoto Expressway may become the fifth largest class action lawsuit in Japanese history. This news immediately jumped like a rocket and attracted public attention. First of all, what triggered the explosive discussion was the gathering place of retail investors in the stock market-Kawamoto Expressway.

Toyo stocks. At this time, retail investors on Kawamoto Expressway were shocked to realize that the major lawsuit announcement on that day was actually the roar before the storm started. However, when they came to their senses, retail investors found that they had already been deeply affected.

The ground was trapped.

It turns out that everything has already been traced.

In the streets and alleys, whether it is noon, night, or midnight snack time, there are fast food restaurants, izakayas, and snack bars. A large number of people are loudly discussing the Kawamoto Expressway class action lawsuit during their meals. Those who have experience in the four major public nuisance lawsuits

People are reminded of those days when public opinion, pressure groups, journalists, and courts were at war with each other.

As night falls, the sun slowly rises again.

After September 2nd, almost all the phone calls in law firms across Japan were buzzed. The phone rings kept ringing one after another. As soon as you answered the phone, you could hear similar inquiries like "Hello! Is this a law firm?"

Really? I am the driver who caused an accident on the Kawamoto Expressway. Can I participate in the prosecution of the Kawamoto Expressway?"

Lawyers who usually deal with traffic accidents suddenly saw a surge in their business volume. At first, they didn't understand what was going on. It wasn't until they saw the news that they understood what happened.

"It's done, it's done."

“I didn’t expect that one day I could make a fortune doing traffic accident cases.”

"every dog ​​has his day!"

"You should thank the lawyer named Beihara."

Leading law firms with a keen sense of smell have already seen the extremely huge opportunities contained in this class action lawsuit through the news that day. These include the so-called 1000 Meter Club Law Firm Group, 500 Meter Club Law Firm Group, and 200 Meter Club Law Firm Group in Tokyo.

At this moment, these law firms, which are aloof and exude a strong sense of elitism, are also beginning to compete for small traffic accident cases.

Normally, the traffic accident case, which is almost regarded as the lowest level of legal business, seems to have become shining gold after Kitahara announced the filing of a class action lawsuit. Every law firm in Japan is scrambling for every claim that it is in the case.

The driver who caused the accident on the Kawamoto Expressway.

At the same time, other law firms also took notice and secretly initiated investigations into other highway companies.

…

A few days later, Tokyo, Minato-ku, Toranomon-Akiumori Building.

Onoda stood at the law office and couldn't believe the scene in front of him. The phones in the law firm rang one after another, and almost all the lawyers in the office grid were busy answering the calls that rang almost every five minutes.

And all of this was because of that small traffic accident.

In Onoda's mind, legal affairs are divided into high-end and low-end. Traffic accident cases obviously belong to that kind of low-end cases. This kind of case, together with the investment, financing, and mergers and acquisitions that he engages in every day at Imanishi Law Firm,

Such cases of listed company transactions are completely incomparable.

However, what happened in the past few days has completely destroyed his past understanding.

Nowadays, those "high-end" law firms are scrambling for every traffic case involving an accident on the highway.

Yes, those high-end law firms that seem to be aloof and unattainable are also stooping down to compete for these cases that they usually look down on.

This somewhat absurd and ironic scene all came from the past two months, when the director of the law firm Imanishi threw the case to Kitahara to humiliate him. I still vaguely remember that he deliberately shook the dossier materials on the ground to ridicule him.

Scenes in Kitahara.

Think about the scene at that time.

Think about the current scene again.

Watching the news about the class action lawsuit, Onoda's heart suddenly trembled, and he felt a little stunned, as if none of this was true.

At the front desk of the law firm in the distance, because there were too many court response materials to be mailed, administrative staff were busy, and several junior lawyers were also transferred there. Boxes after boxes of materials were arranged in a messy manner.

At the front desk, the door to the law firm was almost blocked. No way, they never thought that one day the law firm would suddenly need to prepare such a huge amount of materials. And these boxes after boxes of materials would be sent.

Go to the Shinjuku City Court.

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Shinjuku City District Court, Trial Building.

In the magistrate's office, Executive Judge Kobayakawa was leisurely sipping black tea, crossing his legs, and reading a book from time to time. His annual leave had been approved. Regarding the matter of Kitahara's seizure, he had previously decided to hand it over to his subordinates.

Go and do it. As for the progress and whether it has been sealed, Kobayakawa is indifferent. He has decided that he cannot waste a single minute in his life on that kind of poor guy.

So what if it’s sealed, so what if it’s not sealed?

Anyway, Kitahara has already lost.

My previous layout was still small.

The pattern should be enlarged.

In the enlarged situation, people like Kitahara should not occupy a position that consumes their own brains.

I am taking annual leave this time, and I plan to go to Kansai to have fun, have a good trip, and get rid of the ominous atmosphere caused by being close to that poor man.

hateful!

Why am I still thinking about him!!

Kobayakawa quickly took a sip of black tea to calm down his mood.

Suddenly there was a rush of footsteps outside the corridor, but it was a judge's assistant who hurried over, stopped at the door, and said anxiously: "Judge Kobayakawa, your previous annual leave was just canceled by the president. And during this period,

, you need to be temporarily transferred to the filing court to assist. The workload of the filing court has been too heavy recently."

Canceling annual leave and being temporarily seconded to the case filing court?!

what happened?!

Kobayakawa's eyebrows twitched, and his face suddenly stretched like a carpet, "Take me to the filing court to have a look. How could it be that the workload is too heavy? Those people in the filing court are freeloaders?!

I'll go back and talk to the dean myself. The annual leave has been booked, so how can I just say it's gone?"

Footsteps sounded.

With a depressed feeling and an unbelievable expression on his face, Kobayakawa took the elevator from the office upstairs to the filing court at the bottom.

But in front of him, a mountain of files piled up in the filing court, almost like a tide, almost drowning the people in the office. However, what is even more frightening is that the postal vehicles outside are still coming one by one, and materials are constantly being filed.

Boxes were moved out one after another, and they were almost piled up from the office of the filing court to the litigation service hall of the court.

"Why...why would someone come to file a case? What happened?" Kobayakawa looked at so many materials and couldn't believe it. The accumulated materials alone are very likely to exceed the Shinjuku District District Court's annual work.

Number of cases filed.

"Judge Kobayakawa, don't you know yet? Someone has filed a class action lawsuit against Kawamoto Expressway. The defendants in these materials are all Kawamoto Expressway."

"Who mentioned it?"

"A lawyer named Kitahara Yiichi."

The moment that name rang out, it was as if the noisy sounds around him stopped and turned into a world in a silent movie. The people in the filing court were busy with anxious expressions, leaving only an executive judge standing outside the door who was completely stunned.

Kitahara!
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