Mr. Jong Uk WI is a partner at DR & AJU LLC. His practice is primarily focused on Construction & Real Estate, Labor & Employment, Corporate, and Class Actions.
Mr. Wi has successfully handled a diverse array of legal cases, including construction/real estate cases, involving construction costs (overhead costs, additional construction costs, etc.), defects, and removal, corporate disputes over projects and management rights of companies and associations, and class action involving environment and labor issues. In addition, Mr. Wi successfully represented clients in a case involving the dismissal and wages of university faculty members. With unwavering dedication, Mr. Wi strives to provide comprehensive legal services to his clients, undertaking a multitude of civil, criminal, and advisory cases.
Profile
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- DR & AJU LLC (2021-Present)
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- Law Firm Yulwoo (2019-2020)
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- Defense Installations Agency (in charge of Construction & Real Estate litigations) (2018-2019)
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- Military Prosecutor, Republic of Korea Navy (Republic of Korea Naval Academy, Operations and Planning) (2016-2018)
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- School of Law, Hanyang University (JD, 2016)
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- Korea University (BA in Japanese Language and Literature, 2013)
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- Baeyoung High School (2008)
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- Admitted to Bar, Korea (2016)
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Representative Activities
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- Successfully represented a client in a civil lawsuit related to a clan-owned real estate valued at approximately KRW 8 billion and in a criminal case charged with fraud
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- Successfully led a dispute case related to the ownership of real estate between clans
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- Successfully represented the defendant in the appeal of a case involving additional construction costs, resulting in a settlement that lowered the initial court judgment amount to 1/5
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- Successfully represented the plaintiff in the appeal of a case involving additional construction costs, resulting in a settlement favoring the plaintiff with an amount double the initial court decision
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- Successfully achieved a settlement in favor of the client in a case involving the demolition of a hotel building and the purchase of the above-ground structures, valued at approximately KRW 20 billion
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- Successfully led a case involving a corporate management rights dispute
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- Successfully led numerous cases involving business projects and management rights disputes of farming association corporations
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- Successfully represented a number of unions and temporary management committees in cases involving injunctions for suspending the performance of duties or injunctions prohibiting the exercise of voting rights
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- Successfully represented a client in the appeal of a case claiming university faculty members’ wage
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- Successfully filed a claim for the review and appeal of a lawsuit related to the dismissal orders of university faculty members
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- Successfully led the environmental class action lawsuit involving approximately 10,000 individuals affected by the red tap water contamination incident
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- Successfully reached a settlement in favor of clients in numerous class-action wage lawsuits, including a case of the Korea Railroad Corporation
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- Advised clients in cases within the construction and real estate sectors, including representing them in defect-related lawsuits, providing advisories, and managing related criminal litigations
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- Commendation from the Minister of Justice (Diligence in Litigation) (2018)
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