Can lawyers take orders in private?

Legal analysis: lawyers can take cases in their own names, but they need to dock with their law firms in terms of settlement fees and signing contracts. When undertaking business, a lawyer shall accept the unified entrustment of the law firm, sign a written entrustment contract with the client, and obey the review and decision of the law firm on the conflict of interest in accepting business.

Legal basis: Measures for the Administration of Lawyers' Practice

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.

Twenty-sixth lawyers to undertake business, should be unified by the law firm to accept the entrustment, signed a written entrustment contract with the client, and obey the law firm's conflict of interest review and acceptance of business decisions.

Article 27 Lawyers who are members of the Standing Committees of people's congresses at various levels shall not engage in litigation agency or defense business during their term of office.