What's the difference between an aid lawyer and a formal lawyer?

The difference between legal aid lawyers and formal lawyers;

1. The legal aid lawyer is appointed by the legal aid center in different ways, and it is not necessary for the parties or their relatives to entrust themselves; Non-legal aid lawyers need to be entrusted by the parties or relatives to go through the entrustment procedures at the law firm.

2. For legal aid, the parties need not pay legal fees; The lawyer hired by himself should pay the lawyer's fee as agreed.

Legal aid lawyers will defend the victims. A legal aid lawyer is a party who is qualified to provide legal aid, and the defense lawyer appointed by the legal aid center for the party will also defend the party normally.

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In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 18th National Congress, and the spirit of the document Opinions on Improving the Legal Aid System (Guo Ban Fa [2065438+05] No.37), give full play to the role of lawyers in legal aid work and better meet the legal aid needs of the people.

1. Do a good job in assigning criminal legal aid. Strictly implement the revised Criminal Procedure Law and related supporting documents, organize lawyers to do a good job in interviews, marking papers, investigation and evidence collection, trial and other work, and carefully handle legal aid cases at all stages of investigation, prosecution and trial.

2. Increase legal aid in the field of people's livelihood. Organize lawyers to provide litigious and non-litigious agents for eligible people in need in a timely manner around livelihood issues such as labor security, marriage and family, food and medicine, education and medical care, and promote the solution of basic production and living problems.

3. Extensive consulting services. Give priority to the lawyers on duty who arrange the legal aid convenience service window and the "12348" legal service hotline, use their professional expertise to provide advice to the masses, actively provide legal information and help, guide the masses to express their reasonable demands according to law, and raise their awareness of the rule of law.

4 to carry out the agency work of appeal cases. Gradually bring complainants who refuse to accept the effective judgments and decisions of judicial organs and are unable to hire lawyers into the scope of legal aid, and guide lawyers to represent complainants with financial difficulties through legal aid.

5. Establish a legal aid lawyer system. Legal aid institutions provide legal advice and other legal aid to criminal suspects and defendants according to law by sending duty lawyers to people's courts and detention centers.

6. Promote the reform of the litigation system, such as legal aid's participation in criminal cases' speedy adjudication procedures and leniency in confession. Organize and guide lawyers to provide legal advice, program selection and other legal assistance for criminal suspects and defendants in litigation reform procedures such as quick adjudication procedures and confession and leniency.

7. Actively participate in handling criminal reconciliation cases. To organize and guide lawyers to provide legal aid services to qualified criminal suspects, defendants or victims in cases where the parties voluntarily settle, so as to promote reconciliation.

8. Give play to the role of defense lawyers in the review procedure of death penalty. Organize lawyers to handle legal aid cases for death penalty review and provide defense services for defendants in death penalty review cases according to law.

9. Handling cross-administrative legal aid cases. Adapt to the establishment of a judicial system reform that is properly separated from administrative divisions, and organize lawyers to carry out legal aid work for accepting cases across administrative divisions.

10. Promote lawyers' extensive participation in legal aid work. According to the local demand for legal aid, the number and distribution of lawyers, the provincial judicial administrative organs make it clear that lawyers undertake a certain number of legal aid cases, and strive to make lawyers undertake legal aid obligations generally and fairly through various forms. The judicial administrative organs and lawyers' associations shall, in the inspection and assessment of law firms and the annual assessment of lawyers' practice, take the performance of lawyers' legal aid obligations as an important assessment basis. Encourage outstanding lawyers with industry influence to participate in legal aid work.

1 1. Promote lawyers to provide public welfare legal services. Advocate every lawyer to provide no less than 24 hours of public service every year. For those who do not meet the conditions of legal aid and have real financial difficulties, we will reduce fees, develop public welfare legal service institutions and public welfare lawyers, and provide free legal services for the elderly, women, minors, the disabled, migrant workers and military families.