Professional lawyers can only sign labor contracts and establish labor relations with their own law firms. Professional lawyers can only go to enterprises as legal consultants (that is, sign legal consulting service contracts) and get a certain consulting fee income, which is similar to a labor relationship, not a labor relationship. Moreover, professional lawyers can sign legal consulting service contracts with N enterprises, and the number is unlimited. However, if a professional lawyer signs a formal labor contract with this enterprise and becomes a formal employee of the enterprise (the vice president is also an employee of the enterprise), it will violate the provisions of the Lawyers Law. The bar association and the local judicial bureau have the right to punish, and the lighter one will be warned of a fine. If it is not corrected, the heaviest punishment is to revoke the lawyer's license. As a lawyer, I also know the impact of illegal part-time jobs on my career and the specific punishment, so most professional lawyers will not take illegal part-time jobs. The work of part-time lawyer is assigned by the law firm, and I am not allowed to accept cases privately; No unauthorized charges. Part-time lawyers who violate the above provisions should be criticized and educated until their qualifications are cancelled. Part-time lawyers shall register with the declared legal adviser once a year, and unregistered lawyers shall not be assigned work. If the provisions of the documents before the promulgation of these supplementary provisions conflict with the contents of these supplementary provisions, they shall be handled in accordance with these supplementary provisions.
A person who has been designated as a part-time lawyer by the Ministry of Justice may serve as a part-time lawyer upon his own application, with the consent of his unit, and after the probation period expires, with the approval of the judicial departments (bureaus) of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and reported to the Ministry of Justice for the record.
Legal basis: Article 48 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), if a lawyer commits any of the following acts, the judicial administrative department of the people's government at the municipal level or municipality directly under the Central Government shall give him a warning and may concurrently impose a fine of less than 10,000 yuan; Illegal income, confiscate the illegal income; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be punished for stopping practicing for more than three months and less than six months.