A lawyer's letter refers to a professional legal document made and issued by a lawyer to disclose and evaluate relevant facts or legal issues, and then make a request to achieve a certain effect. A lawyer uses a lawyer's letter to make a legal evaluation and risk assessment of a fact, with the purpose of informing the client of the legal facts with the legal scale and the lawyer's judgment, so that the client can get his own "legal evaluation", that is, "conveying the law to express his own meaning". The essence of lawyer's letter is a legal act of entrusting an agent to express his will, which plays an important role in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties. However, the lawyer's letter is not really effective and needs the approval of the court. If the court does not recognize it, it is invalid.
The characteristics of lawyer's letter are as follows:
1, write the relationship sheet. Mainly used to express legitimate demands to the person designated by the client according to law;
2. Wide application fields. Lawyer's letter can be used in all legal business, so it has a wide range of applications, from litigation to non-litigation, from civil to commercial fields.
3. Lean and flexible. Lawyer's letter is a kind of non-litigation business, which is often short and flexible, but its characteristic is the threatening requirement put forward by law.
4. Send a letter by entrustment. It is to express the client's will to the person pointed out by the client in the tone and form of a lawyer on behalf of the client;
5. Describe Fawei. Lawyers are considered as legal experts and the most rigorous and serious professionals.
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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.