A lawyer's letter is an advance notice that one party to a dispute is ready to bring a lawsuit to the law for the dispute between the two parties. The lawyer's letter itself will not have legal consequences, just a warning. If you don't want to go to court, you should discuss with the other party how to solve the dispute after receiving the lawyer's letter. If the client thinks there is no problem and is not afraid of being sued by the other party, then you don't have to worry about the lawyer's letter. The lawyer's letter is the negotiation behavior of the other party before the prosecution. If the lawyer's letter is not fulfilled, the other party may sue to the court.
Lawyer's letter is a kind of legal judgment on controversial matters, which is based on the judgment made by the lawyer hired by the other party. If it is not tried by a judge, it is unenforceable. In fact, many times, the role of lawyer's letter is to hope that the parties can actively perform it. If the amount is small, the other party certainly doesn't want to go through judicial procedures, wasting time and energy. Generally, a lawyer's letter will be sent before the prosecution, and the other party may or may not prosecute later. In fact, the lawyer's letter has no practical influence on the parties. If you respond to the lawsuit, it only means that the court summons you to appear in court after the court issues a summons to the parties.
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People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law
Article 28 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.