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.
Lawyers must pass the national judicial examination and obtain the legal professional qualification certificate. People who do not have a lawyer's practice certificate, but are engaged in legal affairs, are generally grassroots legal service workers, and hold a legal service worker's practice certificate issued by the Judicial Bureau. There are also some people who are engaged in legal affairs without a license or proper occupation, commonly known as "black lawyers", not real lawyers.
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People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law
Article 3 Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and strictly abide by lawyers' professional ethics and practice discipline.
Lawyers' practice must be based on facts and take the law as the criterion.
Lawyers' practice should be supervised by the state, society and the parties concerned.
Lawyers' legal practice is protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers.