What do you need to be a lawyer?

First, lawyers must pass the national judicial examination and be awarded the legal professional qualification certificate. 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 or proper occupation, commonly known as "black lawyers", not real lawyers.

Second, lawyers should have both legal professional qualification certificates and practice certificates. If you only have a legal professional qualification certificate and no lawyer's practice certificate, you can't call a lawyer.

Third, lawyers serve the whole society and have no specific target. Both natural persons and legal persons may entrust lawyers to represent legal affairs.

Fourth, lawyers must be entrusted by the parties or designated by the people's court to work within the scope of authorization and must not exceed their powers or abuse their rights.

Fifth, lawyers are legal workers. Lawyers can only protect the legitimate rights and interests of clients within the scope permitted by law, and their work within the scope permitted by law is protected by law, without interference from administrative units, clients and individuals.

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.

The basic characteristics of the lawyer profession are. Have the necessary legal expertise. To provide legal services as its function. Protected and managed by the state.