Lawyer is to accept the entrusted or appointed, for the parties to provide legal services such as litigation agent or defense business, lawyers shall pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain a lawyer's license to practice according to law.
Lawyers must pass the national judicial examination, was awarded the legal professional qualification certificate. Do not have a lawyer's license, but engaged in legal affairs, usually grass-roots legal service workers, holding the legal service workers issued by the Bureau of Justice license. Lawyers must have both a legal professional qualification certificate and a practicing certificate. If there is only a legal professional qualification certificate and no lawyer's practicing certificate, one cannot be called a lawyer either.
The lawyer's service object is the whole society, there is no specific object. When engaging in the lawyer's business must have the client's commission or the people's court designation, work within the scope of authorization, not allowed to overstep their authority or abuse of power. Lawyers are legal workers, lawyers can only within the law to protect the lawful rights and interests of the parties, their work within the scope of the law is protected by law, not subject to the interference of administrative units, parties and individuals.
Lawyers for the community to provide legal services and scope:
1, as a legal adviser;
2, as a litigation agent;
3, as a criminal defense;
4, as a non-litigation agent, to participate in mediation and arbitration;
5, to answer the legal advice, legal instruments, etc., in order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties concerned, to safeguard the law. the lawful rights and interests of the parties, and to maintain the correct implementation of the law.
Article 37 of the norms for handling criminal cases by lawyers, lawyers involved in criminal proceedings to obtain case file materials, shall not be provided to the suspect, the defendant's relatives and friends, as well as other units and individuals, and shall not be disclosed to the media or the public without authorization.
Defense lawyers consult, excerpts, copy of the case file materials belong to the state secrets, shall be agreed by the people's procuratorate, the people's court and abide by the provisions of the state secrecy. Lawyers shall not violate the provisions of the disclosure, dissemination of important information and case file materials, or use them for purposes other than the defense and representation of the case.