Can items seized during the investigation phase be kept by a lawyer?

No, the seized items are legally owned by the criminal suspect and need to be returned to the criminal suspect.

You cannot ask someone else’s lawyer to collect the items seized in a criminal case.

With the continuous improvement and development of our country’s laws, public security organs have become more and more strict and standardized in law enforcement and case handling; items seized in criminal cases are generally required to be sealed by the public security organs and will generally be returned to the individual parties after the case is concluded. Or relatives, if the parties agree, they can also entrust their own lawyers to retrieve it, but the public security organs will not call other people's lawyers to retrieve it.