1. Which department is responsible for lawyers?
1, lawyers are first managed by their own law firms, which are managed by county-level judicial administrative departments;
2. Legal basis:
1) Lawyers Law (revised on 20 12) Article 4 The judicial administrative department shall supervise and guide lawyers, law firms and lawyers' associations in accordance with this Law.
2) Lawyers Law (revised 20 12) Article 52 The judicial administrative department of the people's government at the county level shall exercise daily supervision and management over the practice activities of lawyers and law firms, and shall order them to correct the problems found in the inspection; Complaints against the parties shall be investigated in a timely manner. If the judicial administrative department of the people's government at the county level thinks that the illegal acts of lawyers and law firms should be given administrative punishment, it shall put forward suggestions for punishment to the judicial administrative department at a higher level.
Second, what if a lawyer commits a crime?
According to the criminal law, there is no difference in punishment between lawyer crime and ordinary crime. Whether it constitutes a crime or not and what kind of crime it constitutes are also judged according to the criminal law, and there is no difference in the degree of crime and punishment.
At the same time, the criminal law also stipulates the crimes committed by lawyers as defenders and agents ad litem under certain circumstances: Article 306 In criminal proceedings, defenders and agents ad litem who destroy or falsify evidence, help the parties to destroy or falsify evidence, threaten or induce witnesses to change their testimony to facts or commit perjury shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years. Witness testimony or other evidence provided, presented or quoted by defenders or agents ad litem is inaccurate, not intentionally forged, and does not belong to forged evidence.
According to the requirements of the Lawyers Law and lawyers' professional ethics, lawyers will be disqualified, lucky enough to be punished and banned from practicing for life after committing crimes.
Article 38 of the Lawyers Law stipulates that lawyers should keep state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities, and may not disclose the privacy of their clients. Lawyers should keep confidential the information and materials that their clients and others are unwilling to disclose in their practice activities. However, criminal facts and information that endanger national security, public safety and other serious personal and property safety of others are not included.
Lawyers are managed by their firms and county-level judicial administrative departments. Lawyers who forge evidence, intentionally disclose the privacy of their clients, or commit crimes that endanger national security and other people's property will be punished according to law. In addition, the lawyer law will restrict or even cancel their professional qualifications according to law.