1. A lawyer's letter generally refers to a professional legal document produced and issued by a lawyer who accepts the entrustment of a client, discloses and evaluates relevant facts or legal issues, and then makes a request to achieve a certain effect. A letter from a lawyer can clarify the facts and stop illegal infringement. Lawyer's letter has the function of clarifying facts and deterring illegal acts, which is beyond the reach of ordinary business letters and folk letters.
2. Legal basis: Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:
(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;
(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;
(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;
(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
Second, what are the classifications of lawyer's letters?
According to different functions, lawyer's letters are divided into the following categories:
1, the lawyer reminded (urged) the letter. It is the most commonly used one at present. Inform the client of the client's wishes and urge the client to do or not do something;
2. Lawyer's inquiry letter. Mainly used to understand and inquire about relevant legal matters;
3. The lawyer replied. It is a letter that entrusts a lawyer to answer specific questions through a lawyer;
4. Letters from other lawyers.