What kind of industry should a law firm belong to?

Law firms belong to the paid legal service industry, and now they are generally defined as intermediary organizations, non-state organs or institutions, and self-financing independent entities. However, the work of its lawyers is quite special, involving professional legal affairs, often dealing with the public security law, and different from the general service industry. Legal advice is only a small part of its services. Referring to the provisions of the Lawyers Law: Article 2: The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients; Article 14 A law firm is a lawyer's practice institution; Article 28 A lawyer may engage in the following businesses: (1) Accepting the entrustment of a natural person, legal person or other organization to act as a legal adviser; (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 in criminal cases, providing them with legal advice, representing appeals and accusations, applying for bail for arrested criminal suspects, accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants or the designation of people's courts, acting as defenders, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, and representing them in litigation; (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 inquiries about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.