According to Chapter 4 of the Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China*** and the State? The lawyer's business and rights and obligations? Article 28 the role of lawyers can be:
Accept natural persons, legal persons or other organizations entrusted to act as legal adviser.
Accept civil cases, administrative cases, the parties entrusted to act as an agent to participate in litigation.
Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or the assignment of legal aid organizations in accordance with the law, acting as a defender, and accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private cases, victims in public cases, or their close relatives, acting as an agent and taking part in the litigation.
Accepting entrustment to act as a representative in all kinds of litigation cases; accepting entrustment to participate in mediation and arbitration activities.
Accepting commissions, providing non-litigation legal services; answering inquiries about the law, writing litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
Expanded Information
Classification of lawyers
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 the object of service and the identity of the work, is divided into the social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.
According to "lawyers practice management measures" article 24, lawyers practice must abide by the constitution and law, abide by the lawyer professional ethics and practice discipline. Lawyer practice must be based on facts, to the law as a criterion. Lawyers practice should accept the state, society and the supervision of the client.
Additionally, lawyers must pass the national judicial examination, otherwise they can not obtain the license to practice law. According to Articles 11 and 12 of the Measures for the Administration of Lawyers' Practice, lawyers are divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers. Full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers have the same rights and obligations in the performance of their duties as lawyers.
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