A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepts entrustment or assignment, and provides legal services to 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.
On August 20th, 2002/kloc-0, the 30th session of the 13th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) voted to pass the People's Republic of China (PRC) Legal Aid Law. Law firms, grassroots legal service offices, lawyers and grassroots legal service workers are obliged to provide legal aid according to law.
The modern lawyer system should at least be traced back to ancient Rome and even ancient Greece. The ancient Romans formulated a complicated written code and litigation system, including the defense lawyer system, which was inherited by the modern western legal system.
Because the city-state society attached great importance to the rule of law and procedural guarantees, lawyers in ancient Rome enjoyed a very high status, often represented the parties in litigation with their opponents or the government, and emphasized the training of rhetoric and eloquence, which was in the same strain as Greece. Many senators used to do this.