Grassroots legal service offices are legal service organizations established in towns and urban streets according to the Administrative Measures of the Ministry of Justice for Grassroots Legal Service Offices (Order No.60 of the Ministry of Justice on March 3 1 2000), and they are the practice institutions of grassroots legal service workers. It is a market intermediary organization which is located in towns and urban streets and provides legal services to the society. Its task is to organize grassroots legal service workers to carry out business activities, carry out relevant management, training and services, and accept the management and guidance of judicial administrative organs. [1] The business scope of the legal service office is very wide, which can cover almost all the business scope of the law firm except criminal cases. Generally speaking, there are nine categories: 1. Applicants are legal advisers: townships, street governments and their administrative departments, villagers' committees, township enterprises, institutions, rural contracted households, individual industrial and commercial households, private enterprises and rural contracted households. 2. Acting as an agent in civil, economic and administrative litigation; 3. Acting as an agent for non-litigation legal affairs: reviewing legal service documents such as contracts, agreements and articles of association, participating in negotiation, coordinating arbitration activities, applying for administrative reconsideration, acting as an agent for cooperation, guarantee, property division and other single civil, economic and legal affairs; 4, presided over the mediation of disputes with property interests, economic disputes, labor disputes, production and operation disputes and civil disputes; 5. Answering legal consultation: answering legal questions, ways and means of various specific legal affairs and policy consultation; 6. Writing legal affairs documents: litigation legal affairs, non-litigation legal affairs and other documents with legal significance; 7. Assist in notarization: assist in handling pre-notarization services, notarization applications, related matters in the process of obtaining certificates and post-notarization services; 8. Handling witness: On the basis of actively carrying out the notarization business of the co-organizer, at the request of the parties, examine and prove some agreements or contracts with single content, clear rights and responsibilities, small target amount and short performance period, and supervise the performance of the agreements or contracts; 9, to assist the judicial office to carry out legal publicity and education and other related business work.
Legal objectivity:
Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) may engage in the following businesses: (1) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve 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 in criminal cases, providing them with legal advice, representing appeals and accusations, applying for bail for arrested criminal suspects, accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants or the designation of people's courts, acting as defenders, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, and representing them in litigation; (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. Providing non-litigation legal services; (seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.