6月23日傍晚，天同律师事务所发布讣告，其创始人、现任管委会主任蒋勇律师于6月22日突发心脏病去世，享年50岁。

蒋勇律师1994年进入最高人民法院工作，2002年创办天同律师事务所，专注于重大复杂商事争议解决，尤其是进入省级高级法院及最高人民法院的案件。天同是中国最著名的诉讼精品律所之一，曾五次获得ALB中国法律大奖年度诉讼律师事务所大奖，蒋律师也曾于2013年入选ALB China十佳诉讼律师。

2014年，蒋勇律师创办无讼网络科技公司，无讼提供法律+互联网服务，产品包括案例法规数据库、律师大数据画像、案情分析智能机器人等，是中国首批孵化于律师事务所的法律科技公司。

2017年，天同开启全国布局，伴随最高人民法院巡回法庭开设6家分所，并于去年10月新设上海分所，同时发展了知识产权、互联网、新金融等新业务领域。

“蒋律师曾说，人生就像拉弹簧，要用尽全力去探索极限。”天同在讣告中写道，“蒋律师的生命弹簧此刻静止了，但他所拉出的力量继续伴随我们前行。”

China litigation boutique loses founder to heart attack

China’s leading litigation boutique firm TianTong Law Firm released an obituary on the evening of June 23, announcing the departure of its founder Jiang Yong, age 50, of an unexpected heart attack.

Jiang started his career in 1994 at the Supreme People's Court of China, which he left in 2002 to found TianTong Law Firm. TianTong specializes on solving high-profile commercial dispute cases, especially those under the jurisdiction of China’s Supreme Court and provincial Higher People’s Courts. The firm has won the Litigation Law Firm of the Year award of ALB’s China Law Awards for five years, with Jiang ranked as ALB’s Top 10 litigators in 2013.

Jiang went on to create legaltech company Wusong Technology in 2014, which is among the first legaltech companies incubated by a Chinese law firm. Wusong provides products such as database, case referral network based on big data, and case analysis AI robot.

In 2017, TianTong began its expansion by setting up six offices following the path of the supreme court’s circuit courts. In last October, the firm opened its Shanghai office, and expanded its business areas into intellectual property, Internet, and new finance.

“Jiang once said life is like stretching a spring, one has to spare no strength to explore the limits,” says TianTong in the obituary. “Jiang’s spring of life has come to an end, but his unremitting strength will stay with us.”

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