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 the object of service and work status, divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.
Lawyer's work content
China's Lawyers Law, Article 25 clearly stipulates the content and scope of the lawyer to provide legal services for the community:
1, as a legal adviser;
2, as a litigation agent;
3, as a criminal defense;
4, as a non-litigation agent, and participate in mediation and arbitration;
5, answering legal advice, writing legal documents, etc., in order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law.
According to the "lawyers practice management measures" article 24, lawyers practice must abide by the constitution and the law, abide by the professional ethics of lawyers and practice discipline. Lawyer practice must be based on facts, to the law as a guideline. Lawyers practice should accept the supervision of the state, society and clients. In addition, lawyers must pass the national judicial examination, otherwise they cannot obtain a license to practice law.
Professional Requirements
Based on the "Chinese People's **** and the State Lawyers Law" Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, Article 9 stipulates that the lawyer's profession should have the following conditions:
1, uphold the Chinese People's **** and the State Constitution; with full capacity for civil conduct; has not been subjected to criminal penalties, except for negligence of the crime;
2, through the national Uniform Judicial Examination and apply for a legal professional qualification certificate at the local judicial administrative department;
Take the professional qualification certificate and find a law firm, which will recommend a lawyer as a supervising lawyer, and then take the certificate of the law firm to the judicial administrative department to apply for a trainee lawyer's certificate;
3. After obtaining the trainee certificate, the applicant shall intern in the law firm for one year and complete the corresponding study content; the bar association shall issue the The applicant's internship assessment of qualified materials;
4, the internship period, by the judicial administrative department of the content of your internship assessment, the results of the qualified, by the judicial administrative department issued by the lawyer's license.
Choice of lawyer as a profession, you have to study and master the socialist concept of the rule of law, jurisprudence, legal history, constitutional law, economic law, international law, international private law, international economic law, legal ethics and professional responsibility; to study and master the criminal and administrative legal system. Including: socialist concept of the rule of law, criminal law, criminal procedure law, administrative law and administrative litigation law; socialist concept of the rule of law, civil law, commercial law, civil procedure law (including arbitration system); to study and master the judicial case examples (case) analysis, judicial instruments, exposition.
Lawyer's salary in January how much
Lawyer's income in different parts of China is the difference between the lawyer's income and practice location has a lot to do with the eastern region and the western region of the lawyer's income is not the same. Lawyer's main business also affects the lawyer's income, foreign-related, real estate, finance, securities industry, the lawyer's income is much higher than engaged in labor, civil lawyers. Lawyers into the profession for a long time, the depth of seniority and the lawyer's income is proportional to the new lawyers and old lawyers income due to the number of cases and the huge difference.
Currently, Beijing's legal profession is very competitive, and the worst lawyers have problems making ends meet. Annual salaries of 30,000 yuan to 50,000 yuan are in the minority, 100,000 yuan is more normal, and millions of dollars only account for a few. Partners earn relatively high incomes, especially in firms with good returns.
In fact, the law profession, like any profession, has those who do well, those who do poorly, and those who lose money. In the eyes of ordinary people, the high income of the legal profession is enviable, but the high risk of the legal profession is often not known. For example, Beijing Jiahua law firm lawyers due to work errors, resulting in the client 100 million funds were cheated, the court ruled that the firm to return 1 million yuan of legal fees and compensation for the client 8 million yuan. In addition lawyers have criminal penalty risk of article 306 of the criminal law, the judicial administrative organs and law association of administrative penalty risk. Risk agent is also a lawyer's practice risk, as a new type of fees, risk agent in the law has not been clearly affirmed, the lawyer risk agent's income is also therefore at risk.
Not long ago, the state administration of taxation in order to strengthen the high income tax supervision, in the national tax system to establish the personal income tax information management system, and as the key taxpayers of the high-income industry and high-income individuals defined, lawyers are included in the high-income industry. However, taking into account the current development of lawyers as a whole, and the appeals of the relevant departments and trade associations, the taxation of lawyers will not be adjusted for the time being. This can also be seen, the lawyer's income, and not as high as people think.
How to become a lawyer
Currently to be a lawyer must pass the judicial qualification examination. First you need to get a bachelor's degree through self-study, and with a bachelor's degree you can sign up for the judicial qualifying exam. After passing the judicial qualification examination, you can obtain a judicial qualification certificate, with this certificate, to the law firm internship for one year, you can become a practicing lawyer with a red book. With the license, you can independently undertake cases, participate in litigation, become a real lawyer.