(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) Entrusted by criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or designated by legal aid agencies according to law, acting as defenders, private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, representing and participating in litigation;
(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 inquiries about the law, and to write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
When contacting with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members, lawyers shall abide by laws and relevant regulations, and shall not meet with judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff members in violation of regulations, nor offer bribes to them, promise to provide benefits, introduce bribes, instruct or induce the parties to pay bribes, or inquire about the handling opinions of cases in the case-handling organs of judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other staff members, or undertake cases introduced by them.
The parties have the responsibility to provide evidence for their claims. Evidence that the parties and their agents ad litem cannot collect by themselves due to objective reasons; Or evidence that the people's court considers necessary for hearing a case, the people's court shall investigate and collect. The evidence materials obtained by the court according to the application of the parties here mainly include:
First, the evidence collected by the application for investigation belongs to the archives kept by the relevant state departments and must be obtained by the people's court ex officio;
Two, involving state secrets, business secrets, personal privacy and other materials; Third, the parties and their litigation cannot collect other materials by themselves for objective reasons.
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.
legal ground
Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 39 A defense lawyer may meet and correspond with a criminal suspect or defendant in custody. Other defenders, with the permission of the people's courts and people's procuratorates, may also meet and correspond with criminal suspects and defendants in custody.