1, public lawyers are national civil servants, and practicing lawyers are practitioners who provide legal services to the society;
2. The business scope of public lawyers is limited to providing legal services to government departments, and the business scope of practicing lawyers is wider than that of public lawyers;
3. Public lawyers may not charge legal service fees, and practicing lawyers may provide paid legal services to the society.
The conditions for applying for practicing as a lawyer are as follows:
1, support the people and nation of China;
2, through the national unified legal professional qualification examination to obtain legal professional qualification;
3. Internship in a law firm for one year;
4. Good conduct.
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Measures for the administration of lawyers' practice
Article 7 To apply for practicing as a part-time lawyer, the following conditions shall be met in addition to those stipulated in Article 6 of these Measures:
(a) to engage in legal education and research in institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutions;
(two) with the consent of the unit. Article 11 To apply for practicing as a lawyer, the following materials shall be submitted to the judicial administrative organ of a city divided into districts or a district (county) of a municipality directly under the Central Government:
(1) Application for practicing;
(2) Legal professional qualification certificate or lawyer qualification certificate;
(3) Materials issued by the Lawyers Association that the applicant has passed the internship examination;
(4) the identity certificate of the applicant;
(5) A certificate issued by the law firm agreeing to accept the applicant.
When applying for a practice license, the applicant shall truthfully fill in the lawyer's practice registration form. Article 25 A lawyer may engage in the following businesses:
(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;
(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;
(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;
(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.