Lawyers' practice discipline is not allowed to give gifts to judges, which is light in violation of discipline and heavy in crime. Article 1 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Bribery stipulates that those who pay bribes to state functionaries for illegitimate interests and the amount is more than 10,000 yuan shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the provisions of Article 390 of the Criminal Law. In other words, a lawyer bribing a judge for illegitimate interests 10000 yuan should be punished as bribery.
Legal basis:
Measures for the Administration of Grassroots Legal Service Workers Article 46 If a grassroots legal service worker commits one of the following acts, the judicial administrative organ at the county level or the district (county) judicial administrative organ of the municipality directly under the Central Government shall give him a warning; If there is illegal income, the illegal income shall be confiscated in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations, and the judicial administrative organ of the city divided into districts or the district (county) of the municipality directly under the Central Government shall impose a fine of less than three times the illegal income, with a maximum fine of 30,000 yuan: (1) Exceeding the business scope and practice area of litigation agency; (2) soliciting business by improper means such as belittling others, raising oneself, making false promises or paying referral fees; (3) Having served as a legal service worker for grass-roots judges or an agent ad litem of the court of first instance; (4) practicing in the name of a lawyer; (5) Practicing in a grassroots legal service office, a law firm and a notary office at the same time, or practicing in two or more grassroots legal service offices at the same time; (six) refusing to perform the obligation of legal aid without justifiable reasons; (seven) providing assistance to the client knowing that his request is illegal and fraudulent; (eight) in the agency activities beyond the agency authority or abuse of agency rights, infringement of the legitimate rights and interests of the client; (9) Acting for both parties or interested third parties in the same lawsuit, arbitration or administrative ruling; (10) Failing to abide by the entrustment contract concluded with the parties, refusing or failing to perform legal service obligations, and harming the legitimate rights and interests of the client; (eleven) in the mediation, agency, legal adviser and other professional activities to suppress, insult or take revenge on the parties, resulting in adverse effects; (twelve) do not accept the annual assessment in accordance with the provisions, or resort to deceit in the annual assessment; (thirteen) disclosure of business secrets or personal privacy known in practice; (14) Meeting with relevant judicial, arbitration or administrative law enforcement personnel in violation of regulations or treating them with courtesy for the purpose of influencing the outcome of trial, arbitration or administrative adjudication; (15) accepting the entrustment to undertake legal affairs without authorization, or charging fees without authorization, or asking the client for extra remuneration; (16) accepting the property of the other party or interested party in agency activities or maliciously colluding with it, thereby harming the legitimate rights and interests of the client; (seventeen) in violation of the relevant provisions of the judicial, arbitration and administrative law enforcement work, interfere with or hinder the normal work of judicial, arbitration and administrative law enforcement; (18) divulging state secrets known in practice; (19) Forging, concealing or destroying evidence or intentionally assisting clients to forge, conceal or destroy evidence; (20) Bribing or introducing bribes to relevant judicial personnel, arbitrators or administrative law enforcement personnel, or instigating or inducing clients to pay bribes to them; (twenty-one) other acts that should be punished according to laws, regulations and rules. The judicial administrative organ shall also order the grassroots legal service workers to make corrections.