A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties.
Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain the lawyer's practice certificate according to law before they can practice. 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.
Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:
1. Accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisers;
2, accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, as agents, to participate in litigation;
3. Accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or the assignment of legal aid agencies as defenders, accept the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives as agents and participate in litigation;
4. Accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;
5. Accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
6. Accept the entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;
7. Answer legal advice and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.
Article 51 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if a lawyer violates the provisions of this Law and should be warned and punished within one year after being warned or punished, the judicial administrative department of the district people's government at the municipal level with districts or municipalities directly under the Central Government shall give him a punishment of stopping practicing for more than three months and less than one year; If the punishment for stopping practicing occurs again within two years after the expiration of the period, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke the lawyer's practice certificate. If a law firm violates the provisions of this Law and should be punished by suspending business for rectification, the judicial administrative department of the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government shall revoke its practice certificate within two years after the expiration of the punishment period.