History of Hubei Lawyers Association

1980 10, 18 A legal advisory office (now a law firm) was established in our province, with only 80 lawyers. After 24 years, by the end of 2004, the number of lawyers in our province had reached 4029, including 3626 full-time lawyers practicing in 405 law firms in the province, part-time lawyers 148, and legal aid lawyers working in15 legal aid institutions in the province19/kloc-0. Eight large and medium-sized enterprises such as WISCO have 48 corporate lawyers to provide legal services for the company, and 65,438+06 public lawyers are engaged in legal work in government departments in Ezhou and Xianning pilot areas. Lawyers represented more than 6,543,800 litigation cases, served as 9,428 legal advisers, handled 5,735 legal aid cases, and donated more than 6,543,800 yuan to public welfare undertakings.

In the past two years, the number of lawyers in our province has increased by an average of 500 every year, and nearly 400 interns will join the ranks of lawyers soon. The ranks of lawyers are growing, with a group of compound talents who understand foreign languages, economy, science and management. The hardware facilities of law firms have been improved in an all-round way, and comfortable office environment and modern office equipment have become the necessary conditions for law firms. Lawyer's business is expanding day by day, and lawyer's service has penetrated into all fields of social life. Foreign business exchanges are increasing. At present, lawyers in our province have established extensive business cooperation relations with lawyers in the United States, Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions.

The 5th Hubei Lawyers Association has 7 vice-presidents, 19 executive directors and 58 directors. There are two special committees, namely, the Rights Protection Committee and the Lawyers Development Strategy Research Committee. Eight business committees: criminal administrative law, civil and commercial affairs Committee, administrative law Committee, financial and securities Committee, maritime and maritime affairs Committee, foreign-related Committee, professional Committee for the protection of minors and real estate Committee.

The executive body of Hubei Lawyers Association is led by the Secretary-General, and consists of an office, a member department, a business research department, a training department, a foreign exchange department, an editorial department of Lawyers World and a financial office. The office facilities of the Lawyers Association have basically been modernized, including Hubei Lawyers Network and Lawyers' publication Lawyers' World.

Hubei Lawyers Association adheres to the purpose of serving lawyers, implements the general plan of governing the country according to law, accelerates the development of lawyers by deepening the reform of the lawyer system, strengthening industry management, strengthening the construction of law firms and lawyers, and makes greater contributions to the socialist modernization of the whole province and the whole country.