A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or designated to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties.
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.
On August 20th, 2002/KLOC-0, the 30th session of the 13th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) passed the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Legal Aid, and all grassroots legal services are obliged to provide legal aid according to law.
As far as the qualification of "lawyer" is concerned, it includes: first, having certain legal knowledge, having "bachelor degree or above in law major in colleges and universities" or "having legal knowledge in other majors in colleges and universities" according to the provisions of the current Lawyers Law.
Secondly, pass the national "legal professional qualification examination" to obtain qualifications; Third, obtain a practicing certificate approved by the national judicial administrative department; Fourth, he takes providing legal services to the society as his occupation.
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.