Not necessarily. Legal workers (without lawyer qualification certificate) in legal service offices can also accept the entrustment of judicial organs to undertake legal aid cases. Legal aid has the nature of public welfare, legal services are purchased by financial allocation, and free legal services are provided to parties who meet the conditions of legal aid (generally living in difficulties), and subsidies for lawyers or legal workers are issued by the Bureau of Justice.
Legal objectivity:
Article 35 of the Criminal Procedure Law If a criminal suspect or defendant fails to entrust a defender due to financial difficulties or other reasons, he or his near relatives may apply to a legal aid institution. To meet the conditions of legal aid, legal aid institutions shall appoint lawyers to defend them. If the criminal suspect or defendant is a mental patient who is blind, deaf, dumb or has not completely lost the ability to identify or control his own behavior, and has not entrusted a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him. If a criminal suspect or defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment or death without entrusting a defender, the people's court, the people's procuratorate and the public security organ shall notify the legal aid institution to appoint a lawyer to defend him.