Magnolia graduated from the major of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at Soochow University and was awarded the third session of the Ying Songnian Scholarship, which is the highest academic research award in the field of Chinese administrative law. Prior to engaging in the profession of lawyer, she had six years of experience working in the Administrative Trial Division of a certain provincial high court, where she heard over 300 administrative cases involving significant expropriations, licensing cases, as well as new types of cases such as administrative agreements, financial regulation, government procurement, and administrative guidance. She has extensive experience in handling administrative litigation cases.
Since entering the profession of lawyer in 2017, Magnolia has been hired as a legal advisor for several municipal-level governments and departments in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. She holds the intermediate lawyer title in Shanghai and has served on multiple significant non-litigation administrative projects as well as multiple complex and difficult commercial and administrative litigation cases. She provides clients with professional, targeted, and executable dispute resolution plans for individual cases, and her results have been widely recognized by clients. Magnolia is actively involved in various academic activities related to administrative law, as well as administrative agencies' law-based activities and rule of law supervision activities. She contributes to the field of administrative law by actively participating in various academic activities and seminars in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions. She often publishes her own understanding on the practical issues at the forefront of administrative law, and in 2022 published her personal monograph "Notes on Administrative Law Practice".
Vice Chairman of the Administrative Law Practice Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Member of the Emergency Response Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Member of the Urban Renewal and Urban Governance Legal Service and Research Center of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Director of the Procedural Law Research Institute of the Shanghai Law Society
Practice Mentor of master’s in law at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University
Expert on Civil and Administrative Case Procuratorial Supervision Consultation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
Member of the Legal Consultation Expert Group of the People's Congress of Qidong Municipality
Non-permanent member of the Administrative Review Committee of Taixing Municipality
Sept. 2023 - Present, SGLA Law Firm, Senior Partner
Nov. 2018 - Aug. 2023, Jin Mao Law Firm, Partner
2010 - 2016, a certain provincial high court, Judge
Provided special legal services for the legal review of administrative penalties for cases related to electric power of the Economic and Information Technology Committee of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for administrative penalties and administrative reconsideration of the Finance Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for the recovery of idle land for the Natural Resources Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for retrieving special financial funds for the Finance Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of the Tax Service of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for the legislative work, revision of regulatory documents, and post-implementation evaluation of local regulations in multiple regions of the Yangtze River Delta.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of a top 100 construction enterprise in Jiangsu Province.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration and resolving administrative disputes for a leading private enterprise in Zhejiang Province.
Provided special legal services for dealing with major administrative punishment procedures of a large medical device company.
Provided special legal services for the non-residential house levy compensation of a supporting new project in a certain land.
Acted as counsel for the Finance Bureau of a certain city in ordering the return of financial subsidies, which was selected as one of the top 10 typical cases of administrative trials in municipal court.
Acted as counsel for a well-known real estate enterprise in a dispute over land ownership registration with the land department of a certain municipality.
" Notes on Administrative Law Practice " (written by Ding Yu, published by Law Press, 2022).
"The pros and cons of government information disclosure in administrative litigation after the ‘Three Needs’ has been canceled" (published in "Shanghai Lawyers" 2021, Issue 3).
"A milestone in the unification of market regulatory administrative licensing procedures" (published in "Market Supervision and Administration" 2019, Issue 18).
"Analysis of difficult issues in the identification of the defendant's qualifications in administrative litigation" (published in "People's Court Daily" on January 18, 2017, Page 006).
"Several basic issues of judicial suggestion system in administrative trials" (published in "Soochow University Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)" 2010, Issue 1).
"Exploration on several problems of evidence rules in China's administrative procedure law" (published in "Xuzhou Normal University Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)" 2009, Issue 5).
"Research on several issues related to limited resource concession transfer - from the perspective of ‘Property Law’" (published in "Ningbo University Journal (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition)" 2009, Issue 2).
"The umbrella and the bridge - on the relationship between the constitution, press freedom and government information disclosure" (published in "Legal System and Society" 23rd issue in 2008).
"On the determination of administrative punishment discretion criteria in data security protection field" - won first prize in the 2023 annual conference paper competition of Jiangsu Province Administrative Lawyers' Research Association.
Magnolia graduated from the major of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at Soochow University and was awarded the third session of the Ying Songnian Scholarship, which is the highest academic research award in the field of Chinese administrative law. Prior to engaging in the profession of lawyer, she had six years of experience working in the Administrative Trial Division of a certain provincial high court, where she heard over 300 administrative cases involving significant expropriations, licensing cases, as well as new types of cases such as administrative agreements, financial regulation, government procurement, and administrative guidance. She has extensive experience in handling administrative litigation cases.
Since entering the profession of lawyer in 2017, Magnolia has been hired as a legal advisor for several municipal-level governments and departments in Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta region. She holds the intermediate lawyer title in Shanghai and has served on multiple significant non-litigation administrative projects as well as multiple complex and difficult commercial and administrative litigation cases. She provides clients with professional, targeted, and executable dispute resolution plans for individual cases, and her results have been widely recognized by clients. Magnolia is actively involved in various academic activities related to administrative law, as well as administrative agencies' law-based activities and rule of law supervision activities. She contributes to the field of administrative law by actively participating in various academic activities and seminars in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions. She often publishes her own understanding on the practical issues at the forefront of administrative law, and in 2022 published her personal monograph "Notes on Administrative Law Practice".
Soochow University, Bachelor of Laws
Soochow University, Master of Constitutional Law and Administrative Law
Vice Chairman of the Administrative Law Practice Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Member of the Emergency Response Committee of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Member of the Urban Renewal and Urban Governance Legal Service and Research Center of the Shanghai Lawyers Association
Director of the Procedural Law Research Institute of the Shanghai Law Society
Practice Mentor of master’s in law at the Guanghua Law School of Zhejiang University
Expert on Civil and Administrative Case Procuratorial Supervision Consultation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate
Member of the Legal Consultation Expert Group of the People's Congress of Qidong Municipality
Non-permanent member of the Administrative Review Committee of Taixing Municipality
Sept. 2023 - Present, SGLA Law Firm, Senior Partner
Nov. 2018 - Aug. 2023, Jin Mao Law Firm, Partner
2010 - 2016, a certain provincial high court, Judge
Provided special legal services for the legal review of administrative penalties for cases related to electric power of the Economic and Information Technology Committee of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for administrative penalties and administrative reconsideration of the Finance Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for the recovery of idle land for the Natural Resources Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for retrieving special financial funds for the Finance Bureau of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of the Tax Service of a certain municipality.
Provided special legal services for the legislative work, revision of regulatory documents, and post-implementation evaluation of local regulations in multiple regions of the Yangtze River Delta.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration of a top 100 construction enterprise in Jiangsu Province.
Provided special legal services for administrative reconsideration and resolving administrative disputes for a leading private enterprise in Zhejiang Province.
Provided special legal services for dealing with major administrative punishment procedures of a large medical device company.
Provided special legal services for the non-residential house levy compensation of a supporting new project in a certain land.
Acted as counsel for the Finance Bureau of a certain city in ordering the return of financial subsidies, which was selected as one of the top 10 typical cases of administrative trials in municipal court.
Acted as counsel for a well-known real estate enterprise in a dispute over land ownership registration with the land department of a certain municipality.
" Notes on Administrative Law Practice " (written by Ding Yu, published by Law Press, 2022).
"The pros and cons of government information disclosure in administrative litigation after the ‘Three Needs’ has been canceled" (published in "Shanghai Lawyers" 2021, Issue 3).
"A milestone in the unification of market regulatory administrative licensing procedures" (published in "Market Supervision and Administration" 2019, Issue 18).
"Analysis of difficult issues in the identification of the defendant's qualifications in administrative litigation" (published in "People's Court Daily" on January 18, 2017, Page 006).
"Several basic issues of judicial suggestion system in administrative trials" (published in "Soochow University Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)" 2010, Issue 1).
"Exploration on several problems of evidence rules in China's administrative procedure law" (published in "Xuzhou Normal University Journal (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition)" 2009, Issue 5).
"Research on several issues related to limited resource concession transfer - from the perspective of ‘Property Law’" (published in "Ningbo University Journal (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition)" 2009, Issue 2).
"The umbrella and the bridge - on the relationship between the constitution, press freedom and government information disclosure" (published in "Legal System and Society" 23rd issue in 2008).
"On the determination of administrative punishment discretion criteria in data security protection field" - won first prize in the 2023 annual conference paper competition of Jiangsu Province Administrative Lawyers' Research Association.