The lawyer's responsibility:
1, the lawyer must be at fault subjectively;
2, the lawyer's behavior must have caused economic damage to the parties, and there is a direct causal relationship between the behavior and the damage results;
3, the lawyer's behavior must be illegal, that is, illegal;
4, the lawyer's behavior must occur in the process of lawyers to perform their duties.
The duties of a lawyer:
1. Provide advice on relevant legal issues to customers as agreed. Drafting and reviewing legal documents, acting as an agent to participate in litigation, mediation or arbitration activities, handling other entrusted legal affairs, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients;
2, according to the facts and laws, put forward the criminal suspects and defendants are innocent, the crime is light or reduce or exempt from their criminal responsibility materials and opinions, to protect the criminal suspects and defendants' litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests. The client may refuse the lawyer entrusted by him to continue to defend or represent him, and at the same time, he may entrust another lawyer to act as a defender or agent;
3, as a legal adviser, agent ad litem, criminal defender, non-litigation agent, participate in mediation and arbitration, answer legal advice, write legal documents, etc. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law.
Legal basis:
Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
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.