Legal analysis: A lawyer's letter refers to the production and delivery of professional legal documents in which a lawyer accepts the client's entrustment to disclose and evaluate relevant facts or legal issues, and then makes requests to achieve a certain effect. Generally speaking, the functions of a lawyer's letter are:
1. Sending a letter through a lawyer can clarify the facts and stop illegal infringement.
2. Recover owed commissions and other payments in a convenient way through a lawyer’s letter.
3. Use a lawyer’s letter to fulfill other legal notification obligations.
4. Before litigation or arbitration, sending a lawyer's letter can have the effect of delaying the statute of limitations.
5. Reach an out-of-court settlement agreement. Attorney settlement letters are its primary use.
6. Notice of termination of contract. However, laws and administrative regulations stipulate that the cancellation of a contract requires approval, registration and other procedures, and a lawyer's letter cannot be used to notify the cancellation of the contract.
Legal basis: "Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China" Lawyers may engage in the following businesses: (1) Accept entrustment from natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisors; (2) ) Accept the entrustment of parties in civil cases and administrative cases, and serve as agents to participate in litigation; (3) Accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or accept the assignment of legal aid institutions in accordance with the law, serve as defenders, and accept private prosecutors and public prosecutors in private prosecution cases Act as an agent to participate in litigation when entrusted by the victim of the case or his close relatives; (4) Accept entrustment to act as agent in various litigation cases; (5) Accept entrustment to participate in mediation and arbitration activities; (6) Accept entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services; (7) ) Answer legal consultations, and write legal documents and other documents related to legal matters. (7) Answer legal consultations, and write legal documents and other documents related to legal matters.