The responsibilities of a lawyer include:
1. As a legal advisor, a lawyer should provide advice to clients on legal issues as agreed, draft and review legal documents, and participate in litigation and mediation as an agent. Or arbitration activities, handling other entrusted legal affairs, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients;
2. Lawyers serve as litigation or legal affairs agents. Non-litigation legal affairs agents shall safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the client in accordance with the entrusted authority;
3. Lawyers acting as defenders shall, based on facts and law, propose that the criminal suspect or defendant is innocent or that the crime is mitigated or mitigated. Materials and opinions on exemption from criminal liability, and safeguarding the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants.
Lawyers’ obligations:
1. After accepting a commission, a lawyer shall not refuse defense or representation without justifiable reasons;
2. Lawyers should be conservative in their professional activities Known state secrets and commercial secrets shall not be disclosed to the privacy of the parties;
3. Lawyers shall not act as agents for the parties in the same case, and shall not represent legal matters that conflict with the interests of themselves or their close relatives;
4. No agency fees and other fees may be collected privately;
5. No collusion with others to harm the interests of the principal; 6. No illegal meetings Judges, prosecutors and opposing parties.
To sum up, trainee lawyers are not lawyers. Although the name of trainee lawyer contains the word "lawyer", there is no contradiction. Only by passing the legal qualification examination and interning in a law firm for one year and passing the interview , obtain a lawyer's practicing certificate, and be a real lawyer.
Legal basis:
Article 38 of the Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China
Layers shall keep state secrets and business secrets known to them during their professional activities. Confidentiality shall not be disclosed.
Relevant circumstances and information that the client and others know that the lawyer knows during the course of his or her professional activities that are not willing to be disclosed shall be kept confidential. However, the facts and information that the client or other personnel are preparing or currently committing crimes that endanger national security, public security, or seriously endanger the personal safety of others are excluded.