Lawyers do criminal or civil

Lawyers can do both criminal and civil lawyers.

Legal basis:

"Chinese people's **** and state lawyers law" article 28 lawyers can engage in the following business: (a) accept the commission of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations, to act as a legal adviser; (b) accept the civil case, administrative cases entrusted by the parties to the case, to act as an agent to participate in the litigation; (c) accept the criminal suspects, the defendant's commission (c) accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects or 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 prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, acting as an agent to participate in litigation; (d) accepting entrustment to act as an agent for various types of litigation cases; (e) accepting entrustment to take part in mediation and arbitration activities; (f) accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services; (g) answering inquiries about the law, (viii) Answering legal inquiries, writing litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.