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. Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.
The national lawyer qualification examination starts from 1986. The national qualification of lawyers has selected a large number of legal professionals for the lawyer industry in China, and many of them have become the backbone of the lawyer industry. In practice, they worked hard to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law, and made due contributions to the construction of democracy and legal system in China. Since 2002, the internal professional qualification examination has been divided into two types: the prosecutor's examination and the judge's examination, which are collectively called the national unified judicial examination. The main contents of the examination include: theoretical law, applied law, current legal provisions, legal practice and legal professional ethics. The national judicial examination implements national unified proposition and marking, and the results are announced by the National Judicial Examination Office of the Ministry of Justice. The results of the national judicial examination are valid once. Those who pass the national judicial examination shall be awarded the legal professional qualification certificate by the Ministry of Justice.