Do lawyers have to be tested every year?

No need.

Lawyer (lawyer) refers to the entrusted or appointed, for the parties to provide legal services such as litigation agent or defense business.

Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain a lawyer's license to practice law. 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 the object of service and work status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.

August 20, 2021, the thirtieth meeting of the standing committee of the thirteenth national people's congress voted to adopt the Chinese people's **** and the state legal aid law, grass-roots legal services have the obligation to provide legal aid in accordance with the law.

The qualifications of a "lawyer" include, first, a certain degree of legal knowledge, which, according to the provisions of the current Lawyers Law, is the legal knowledge of an "undergraduate degree in law from an institution of higher learning or above" or the legal knowledge of "other majors from an institution of higher learning. "(b) to have obtained the qualification through the national "legal professional qualification examination"; (c) to have obtained the practising certificate with the approval of the national judicial administrative department; and (d) to have provided legal services for the society and to have made a career out of it. Fourth, to provide legal services to the community and to make a career out of it.

So the lawyer is through the national legal professional qualification examination and obtain a lawyer's license according to law, accept the entrustment or designation, for the client to provide legal services practitioners. The nature of the lawyer is to provide legal services for the community as the occupation of legal service workers.