Due to historical reasons, in the streets and neighborhood committees, you will see some legal service staff engaged in legal services. They call themselves lawyers, but they are not lawyers. The main difference is that due to historical reasons, some people are engaged in legal business, but they can't pass the bar exam. Now it is called the legal qualification examination, and it is allowed to continue to engage in legal services. They are generally older and their legal knowledge is relatively old. They can only handle cases as civil agents, not as lawyers.
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.