First of all, it is also the most fundamental factor to decide whether a lawyer should handle this case: it depends on which stage of the agreement you signed with a lawyer is to entrust a lawyer to represent the case. Generally speaking, lawyers represent cases in stages, and a lawsuit is a stage: first trial, second trial, retrial or execution. Lawyers have no obligation and responsibility to manage the subsequent development of this case without entrusting other procedures after the judgment.
Secondly, if the parties have no objection to the judgment of the case, or receive the judgment of the second instance, the judgment will take effect soon. If there is no follow-up or execution procedure, the lawyer has actually closed the case.
Third, different lawyers will have different ways to deal with the follow-up. In the course of my practice, for cases that I know cannot be executed, if I have no special requirements when handling the entrustment, I will generally not include the execution procedure in the entrustment procedures. But after I get the effective judgment, I usually start enforcement for my client for free. To ensure the enforceability of the judgment.
To sum up, after the court decides, lawyers generally don't care. If a party files an appeal, he may continue to entrust a lawyer. According to the law, lawyers can accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, act as agents and participate in litigation.
Legal basis:
law of advocate
Article 28
Lawyers can 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.
Article 29
Lawyers, as legal advisers, should provide advice to clients on relevant legal issues, draft and review legal documents, participate in litigation, mediation or arbitration activities as agents, handle other entrusted legal affairs and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of clients.
Article 30
If a lawyer acts as an agent for litigation legal affairs or an agent for non-litigation legal affairs, he shall safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the client within the scope of authorization.
Article 31
When acting as a defender, a lawyer shall, according to facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions on whether the criminal suspect or defendant is innocent, the crime is light or the criminal responsibility is reduced or exempted, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of the criminal suspect or defendant.