Recently, the authoritative legal rating agency LEGALBAND published the ranking "2020 China Top 15 Lawyers - Economic Crime". Zhou Junli, a senior partner of ZhongYin Law Firm, was ranked for her expertise and excellent achievements in the area of economic crime and her outstanding performance in the largest case of bill-related crime since the founding of the People's Republic of China, demonstrating the prestige and strength of ZhongYin lawyers in the area of economic crime.

Economic crime is a key area for China’s current legal governance and an important area for lawyers' legal practice. With the reforms of and changes in China's market economy system, economic crimes present new characteristics such as rapid development, huge amount involved, diversified criminal subjects, and intellectualization of criminal means. In recent years, in face of the new challenges brought by economic crimes, China's criminal substantive law, procedural law and evidence law have all been amended and innovated a lot within the framework of the traditional legal system. LEGALBAND prepared the ranking 2020 China Top 15 Lawyers - Economic Crime with an aim to help corporate clients select excellent lawyers with professional knowledge and practical experience in the area of economic crime, who may help them strengthen their understanding of China’s relevant economic regulations and policies, and establish and improve relevant internal rules and regulations, so as to better prevent and cope with economic crimes.

Zhou Junli is a senior partner of ZhongYin Law Firm, an arbitrator of the China Maritime Arbitration Commission, and an external lecturer on legal negotiation course of Beijing Normal University. In 2011, she was rated by the Beijing Lawyers Association as one of the "100 Excellent Criminal Defense Lawyers in Beijing". She is particularly adept at handling various cases such as duty crime, financial crime, fraud crime, and tax crime. She has built a solid foundation for handling major criminal cases and formed unique insights into criminal defense. Regarding the reasons for ranking, LEGALBAND wrote, “Zhou Junli is very good at criminal cases and major civil and commercial litigation cases, which mainly involves economic crimes. The team led by Zhou Junli has represented a senior executive of Baota Petrochemical Group Co., Ltd. on the case of crime of issuing financial bills in violation of regulations. This case is the largest case of bill-related crime since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and has attracted a lot of attention from finance practitioners and private entrepreneurs. With her knowledge and practical experience accumulated in the area of economic crime, as well as her patient and meticulous negotiation and communication skills, Lawyer Zhou created conditions very conductive to the objective adjudication of the case."

Practice of criminal law is one of the twelve specialized practices of ZhongYin Law Firm, and its criminal practice group is composed of senior practicing lawyers who specialize in handling various criminal cases. ZhongYin Law Firm has made outstanding achievements in criminal practice area, and has built an efficient and professional lawyer team with multi-disciplinary professional backgrounds. The team has handled a large number of cases with significant social influence, especially in economic crimes, duty crimes, corruption and bribery crimes, smuggling crimes, and drug crimes, etc. The Criminal Practice Department of ZhongYin also develops civil-criminal mixed solutions for corporate clients and has many successful cases in crime prevention.