responsibilities as appropriate.
when lawyers provide legal services to clients, they should protect and protect the legitimate rights and interests of clients to the maximum extent. However, sometimes the faults of lawyers often cause great losses to clients, and the clients can demand compensation from lawyers. There are three conditions for a lawyer to be liable for damages:
1. The lawyer is at fault
that is, the lawyer caused the loss of the client intentionally or negligently. If the lawyer delays handling the case, inappropriately applies the law, loses important evidence, divulges secrets and other negligent acts that bring various losses to the client, the lawyer shall be liable for compensation; If the loss is caused by force majeure or the client's own fault, the lawyer will not bear the responsibility.
second, the real causes of losses
losses are divided into economic losses and mental losses, direct losses and indirect losses. Economic loss and direct loss are relatively easy to determine, and mental loss is controversial, while indirect loss requires the parties to provide corresponding necessary basis.
3. Causality between the lawyer's fault and the client's loss. The client's loss is caused by the lawyer's fault.
Lawyers' dereliction of duty due to illegal practice will not only bring losses to clients, but also undermine the normal management of lawyers' practice by national judicial administrative departments. Therefore, in terms of professional ethics and practice discipline of lawyers, they should not only bear the liability for damages, but also bear the administrative responsibility. The administrative penalties imposed on lawyers by judicial administrative organs include warning, confiscation of illegal income, suspension of practice and revocation of practice certificate.
In some cases, the lawyer's activities may also constitute a crime, and at this time, the lawyer will bear the corresponding criminal responsibility. These crimes mainly include: the crime of revealing state secrets, the crime of commercial secrets, the crime of bribery, the crime of perjury and so on.