The main business of lawyers is as follows:
1, answer legal advice and write litigation documents. Answering legal advice well requires both lawyers' profound legal knowledge and rich practical experience. Lawyers represent litigation documents, including complaints, pleadings, appeals and petitions;
2. Legal advisers of individuals, legal persons and other organizations. As a legal adviser, he is mainly responsible for non-litigation affairs, and citizens, legal persons and other organizations employ legal advisers;
3. Negotiation, consultation, drafting, review and modification of contracts and agreements;
4. The lawyer's witness refers to the non-litigation affairs in which the lawyer accepts the entrustment of the client to prove the authenticity and legality of the client's legal events or legal acts;
5. Lawyer's notarization refers to a kind of non-litigation legal affairs in which lawyers accept the entrustment of the parties to handle notarization matters on their behalf;
6. Credit investigation. Credit investigation refers to the investigation activities conducted by lawyers on the business reputation and operating conditions of the respondents in the name of law firms entrusted by the parties;
7. Issue legal opinions and lawyers' letters. A legal opinion refers to a written legal opinion put forward by a lawyer in the name of a law firm upon the entrustment of a client. A lawyer's letter refers to a letter entrusted by the client to send a statement on relevant matters to the client designated by the client in the name of a law firm.
Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice. This is the duty entrusted to lawyers by law.
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People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law
Article 28 A lawyer may engage in the following businesses:
(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;
(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;
(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;
(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.