A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties.
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.
Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:
1. Accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisers;
2, accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, as agents, to participate in litigation;
3. Accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or the assignment of legal aid agencies as defenders, accept the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives as agents and participate in litigation;
4. Accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
5. Accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
6. Accept the entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
7. Answer legal advice and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
The contents and scope of legal services provided by lawyers to the society are as follows:
1, as legal adviser;
2. Acting as an agent ad litem;
3, as a criminal defender;
4. Acting as a non-litigation agent and participating in mediation and arbitration;
5, answer legal advice, writing legal documents, etc. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law.
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Measures for the administration of lawyers' service fees
Article 9 The fees for lawyer services subject to market-regulated prices shall be determined by the law firm through consultation with the clients. The following main factors shall be considered when a law firm negotiates the fees for lawyer services with its clients:
Working hours spent;
(two) the difficulty of legal affairs;
(3) the client's affordability;
(4) Risks and responsibilities that lawyers may bear;
(5) The lawyer's social reputation and working level.