Lawyer's Civil Legal Liability

Legal analysis: Lawyer's legal liability refers to the civil, administrative and criminal liability that a lawyer should bear according to law because he intentionally or negligently violates relevant laws and regulations and lawyer's practice discipline, damages the legitimate rights and interests of the parties, disrupts the normal judicial order and affects the lawyer's professional image. Article 49 of China's Lawyers Law stipulates that if a lawyer practices illegally or causes losses to the parties due to his fault, his law firm shall be liable for compensation. After the compensation, the law firm may ask the lawyer for compensation. Lawyers and law firms shall not be exempted or restricted from civil liability for losses caused to the parties due to illegal practice or fault.

Legal basis: Article 49 of the Lawyers Law, if a lawyer commits one of the following acts, the judicial administrative department of the people's government at the municipal level or municipality directly under the Central Government shall give him a punishment of stopping practicing for more than six months but less than one year, and may also impose a fine of less than 50,000 yuan; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke his lawyer's practice certificate; (a) meeting with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff in violation of regulations, or affecting the handling of cases according to law in other improper ways; (2) Offering bribes to judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members, introducing bribes or instigating or inducing parties to pay bribes; (3) Providing false materials to the judicial administrative department or committing other fraudulent acts; (4) Deliberately providing false evidence or threatening or inducing others to provide false evidence, which hinders the other party from obtaining evidence according to law; (5) accepting property or other benefits from the other party, and maliciously colluding with the other party or a third party to infringe upon the rights and interests of the client; (6) Disrupting the order of courts and arbitration tribunals and interfering with the normal conduct of litigation and arbitration activities; (seven) inciting or instructing the parties to take illegal means such as disturbing public order and endangering public security to resolve disputes; (8) making statements that endanger national security, maliciously slander others, and seriously disturb the order of the court; (9) divulging state secrets. If a lawyer is subject to criminal punishment for intentional crime, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke his lawyer's practice certificate.