Lawyers, different from ancient litigators and lawyers, refer to practitioners who have passed the national judicial examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to clients. According to the nature of work, lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers; according to their business scope, lawyers can be divided into civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers; according to their clients and working status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers.
Therefore, a lawyer refers to a practitioner who has passed the national legal professional qualification examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to the parties. The nature of a lawyer is to provide legal services for the society, and he is a professional legal service worker. In practicing law, a lawyer must be entrusted by the parties or designated by the people's court, work within the scope of authorization, and must not exceed his authority or abuse his rights. Lawyers serve the whole society and have no specific target. Both natural persons and legal persons may entrust lawyers to represent legal affairs. A lawyer must have both a legal professional qualification certificate and a practicing certificate. If you only have a legal professional qualification certificate and no lawyer's practice certificate, you can't call a lawyer. People who do not have a lawyer's practice certificate, but are engaged in legal affairs, are generally grassroots legal service workers, and hold a legal service worker's practice certificate issued by the Judicial Bureau. There are also some people who are engaged in legal affairs without a license and a proper occupation, and are not real lawyers.