The necessity of legal professional ethics

On the necessity of legal professional ethics.

Legal analysis: Legal professional ethics has the duality of knowledge and accomplishment. As knowledge, legal professional ethics includes three levels: technical ethics, role ethics and conflict resolution rules. As a kind of accomplishment, legal professional ethics is the basis of shaping the basic image of legal person, the unity of legal profession and cultivating legal person's professional identity and self-identity.

Legal professional ethics education should start from one's own knowledge and accomplishment. The first is to establish a progressive knowledge system with reasonable content and perfect system, which is in line with different educational stages. Secondly, it should establish a practical and even lifelong teaching method.

At the same time, we need to pay attention to the limited self-discipline significance of legal professional ethics education, and fundamentally need institutional guarantee.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law.

Article 2 The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients. Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.

Article 46 A bar association shall perform the following duties:

(a) to ensure that lawyers practice according to law and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers;

(2) Summarizing and exchanging the working experience of lawyers;

(three) to formulate industry norms and disciplinary rules;

(4) Organizing lawyers' professional training, professional ethics and practice discipline education, and assessing lawyers' practice activities;

(five) to organize and manage the internship activities of lawyers, and to assess the interns;

(6) Rewarding and punishing lawyers and law firms;

(7) Accepting complaints or reports against lawyers, mediating disputes arising from lawyers' practice activities and accepting lawyers' complaints.

(eight) other duties stipulated by laws, administrative regulations, rules and the articles of association of the lawyers association. The industry norms and disciplinary rules formulated by the Lawyers Association shall not contravene the relevant laws, administrative regulations and rules.