A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties. Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain the lawyer's practice certificate according to law before they can practice. According to the nature of work, lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers; According to the scope of business, lawyers can be divided into civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers; According to clients and working status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers.
Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business. Law firm refers to the working organization where People's Republic of China (PRC) lawyers perform their duties and carry out business activities. The organization of law firms is supervised and managed by judicial administrative organs and lawyers' associations. The conditions that a law firm should meet are:
1, with its own name, domicile and articles of association;
2. Its assets exceed 654.38 million yuan;
3. There are lawyers who meet the requirements of the Lawyers Law.
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Article 15 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) * * * To establish a partnership law firm, in addition to meeting the conditions stipulated in Article 14 of this Law, there should be more than three partners, and the promoters should be lawyers with more than three years' practice experience. A partnership law firm may be established in the form of general partnership or special general partnership. The partners of a partnership law firm shall be liable for the debts of the law firm in the form of partnership. Article 5 To apply for practicing as a lawyer, the following conditions shall be met:
(a) support the constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC);
(2) Obtaining the legal professional qualification through the national unified legal professional qualification examination;
(3) Having worked as an intern in a law firm for one year;
(4) Good conduct.
The national unified judicial examination certificate and lawyer qualification certificate obtained before the implementation of the national unified legal professional qualification examination have the same effect as the national unified legal professional qualification certificate.