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.
Conditions to be met in applying for lawyer's assistance:
1, general conditions, generally applicable to China citizens, refers to China citizens who are really unable to pay the legal service fees due to economic difficulties or have sufficient reasons to prove that they need help to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests, and can apply for legal aid.
2. Special conditions Special conditions mainly refer to the special circumstances that the defendant should have to obtain legal aid in criminal cases, mainly including the following:
(1) Blind, deaf, dumb and minors are criminal defendants or criminal suspects. If the defendant may be sentenced to death without entrusting a defense lawyer, he should get legal aid;
(2) Other criminal defendants and suspects, such as the disabled and the elderly, who are unable to hire a defense lawyer due to financial difficulties, can obtain legal aid;
(3) In criminal cases, if the defendant of foreign nationality has not entrusted a defender and the court appoints a lawyer to defend him, he can get legal aid.
To sum up, it is the right of the parties to apply for a defense lawyer, and a good defense lawyer can get twice the result with half the effort.
Legal basis:
Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
The responsibility of a defender is to provide materials and opinions on whether a criminal suspect or defendant is innocent, light or relieved of criminal responsibility according to facts and laws, and to safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of the criminal suspect or defendant.