Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law.
Article 1 This Law is formulated with a view to improving the lawyer system, standardizing lawyers' practice behavior, ensuring lawyers to practice according to law, and giving full play to lawyers' role in the construction of socialist legal system.
Article 2 The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients.
Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.
Article 3 Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and strictly abide by lawyers' professional ethics and practice discipline.
Lawyers' practice must be based on facts and take the law as the criterion.
Lawyers' practice should be supervised by the state, society and the parties concerned.
Lawyers' legal practice is protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers.
Article 4 The judicial administrative department shall supervise and guide lawyers, law firms and lawyers' associations in accordance with this Law.