A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services such as litigation representation or defense business to clients.
Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain a lawyer's practicing certificate in accordance with the law before they can 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 client 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.
As far as the attributes of "lawyers" are concerned, they include:
First, they have certain legal knowledge. According to the provisions of the current "Lawyers Law", one must have legal knowledge of "a bachelor's degree or above in the law major of a higher education institution" or "a bachelor's degree or above in other majors of a higher education institution";
The second is to pass the national "Legal Professional Qualification Examination" , obtain qualifications; third, obtain a practicing certificate with the approval of the national judicial administrative department; fourth, provide legal services to the society and make this a career.
Legal Basis
Article 11 of the Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China: Civil servants may not concurrently serve as practicing lawyers. Lawyers who serve as members of the standing committees of people's congresses at all levels shall not engage in litigation agency or defense business during their term of office.