1. What if the lawyer doesn't appear in court?
1. You can terminate the entrustment relationship and find another lawyer.
2. If the entrustment relationship is terminated, the agency fee can be returned according to the refund standard of the entrustment contract. Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain the lawyer's practice certificate according to law before they can practice.
3. If you are irresponsible, you can complain to the Judicial Bureau or the Bar Association; If there is any loss, you can claim compensation for the loss.
Article 48 of the Lawyers Law: If a lawyer commits any 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 warning and may concurrently impose a fine of less than 10,000 yuan; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, the punishment of stopping practicing for more than three months and less than six months shall be given:
(1) Accepting entrustment, charging fees, accepting property or other benefits from customers without permission;
(two) after accepting the entrustment, refusing to defend or represent without justifiable reasons, and not appearing in court on time to participate in litigation or arbitration;
(three) to seek the disputed rights and interests of the parties by taking advantage of the convenience of providing legal services;
(4) divulging business secrets or personal privacy.
Second, lawyers can engage in business.
According to Article 28 of the Lawyers Law, 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.
It is a commercial behavior to establish a legal service relationship between lawyers and clients. Its essence is that lawyers provide legal services and clients need to pay prescribed fees. If a contract has been signed, but the lawyer fails to perform his obligations in court, it is a breach of contract, and legal responsibility can be investigated according to the actual situation.