A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or designated to provide legal services such as litigation representation or defense services for clients. Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain the lawyer's practice certificate according to law before they can practice. According to the nature of work, lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers; According to the scope of business, lawyers can be divided into civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers; According to clients and working status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.
1. Performance
As far as the qualification of "lawyer" is concerned, it includes:
First, having certain legal knowledge, that is, having a bachelor's degree or above in law in colleges and universities or having a bachelor's degree or above in other majors in colleges and universities with legal knowledge;
Secondly, pass the national "Legal Professional Qualification Examination";
Third, with the approval of the judicial administrative department of the state, obtain a practicing certificate;
Fourth, provide legal services to the society as a profession.
Therefore, a lawyer refers to a practitioner who has passed the national legal professional qualification examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to clients. The nature of a lawyer is to provide legal services for the society, and he is a professional legal service worker.
participating in commercial activities
(1) accepting the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisers;
(2) accepting the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases to act as agents and 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;
(4) accepting entrustment to represent the appeals of various litigation cases;
(5) accepting entrustment and participating in mediation and arbitration activities;
(6) accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
(7) Answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.