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.
In terms of "lawyer" qualifications, including: first, with certain legal knowledge, according to the current "lawyers law", is to have "higher education law undergraduate degree and above" legal knowledge or "other specialties in colleges and universities" legal knowledge. "(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. Fourthly, to provide legal services to the society and to take this as a profession. Therefore, the lawyer refers to the national legal professional qualification examination and obtain a lawyer's license according to law, accepts the entrustment or designation, provides legal services for the client's practitioners. The nature of the lawyer is to provide legal services for the society as the occupation of legal service workers.