Does the lawyer's letter have legal effect?
A lawyer's letter has no legal effect. According to Fatu.com, a lawyer's letter refers to a professional legal document in which a lawyer accepts the entrustment of a client, discloses and evaluates relevant facts or legal issues, and then makes a request to achieve certain results. Lawyer's letter is an unofficial document, which mainly expresses the views of the parties on the incident, has no legal effect, and plays the role of legal proof and fact warning. Article 28 of the Lawyers Law stipulates that lawyers can engage in the following businesses: accepting the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisers; Accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, act as agents and participate in litigation; Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects in criminal cases, providing them with legal advice, representing appeals and accusations, applying for bail pending trial for arrested criminal suspects, accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants or the designation of people's courts, acting as defenders, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, and representing them in litigation; Accept the entrustment and represent the appeals of various litigation cases; Accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities; Accept the entrustment and provide non-litigation legal services; Answer legal advice, write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.