Lawyer's professional ethics is an important part of legal professional ethics. Lawyer's professional ethics is the guideline to guide lawyer's practice, the standard to judge whether lawyer's practice meets lawyer's professional requirements, and the important basis to investigate the professional responsibility of illegal lawyers.
Concepts and characteristics:
Lawyer's professional ethics has the following characteristics:
First, the main body of lawyers' professional ethics is lawyers and law firms. Among them, lawyers not only refer to lawyers in law firms, but also include public lawyers working in state organs, as well as trainee lawyers and paralegals.
A law firm is a lawyer's practice organization. Supervise and manage lawyers, lawyers undertake business, and law firms accept cases in a unified way and charge fees in a unified way. Therefore, the lawyer's professional ethics is also applicable to law firms to restrain their professional behavior.
Second, the object of lawyer's professional ethics is mainly the lawyer's practice behavior. The fundamental duty of lawyers is to provide legal services to clients, so the scope of lawyers' professional ethics is mainly lawyers' practice.
At the same time, because some non-practicing activities of lawyers also affect the professional image of lawyers to a certain extent, some activities directly related to the professional image of lawyers outside practice should also be bound by the professional ethics of lawyers.
Third, a good lawyer's professional ethics has a wide impact on society. Lawyers provide legal services to the society, and have extensive contacts with state organs and their staff, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, parties and other participants in litigation, even direct entrustment relationships. What a lawyer says and does represents his professional image and embodies his quality.
Therefore, a good lawyer's professional ethics does not play a very important role in improving citizens' legal awareness and promoting the construction of the rule of law in the country.
Extended data:
Legal provisions:
Chapter II Basic Principles of Lawyers' Professional Ethics
Article 4 Lawyers should be loyal to the Constitution and laws, adhere to the principle of taking facts as the basis, take the law as the criterion, and practice in strict accordance with the law.
Lawyers should be loyal to their duties, adhere to principles and safeguard national laws and social justice.
Article 5 Lawyers shall be honest and trustworthy, diligent and conscientious, and faithfully safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of clients.
Article 6 Lawyers should be dedicated and diligent, study their business hard, master the legal knowledge and service skills they should have in practice, and constantly improve their practice level.
Article 7 Lawyers should cherish and safeguard their professional reputation, observe social morality by example, and pay attention to the construction of conduct and professional ethics.
Article 8 Lawyers shall strictly keep state secrets, business secrets of clients and privacy of clients.
Article 9 Lawyers should respect their peers, help each other, compete fairly and improve their professional level.
Article 10 Lawyers shall consciously perform their legal aid obligations and provide legal aid to the recipients.
Article 11 Lawyers shall abide by the articles of association of the Lawyers Association and earnestly perform their membership obligations.
Twelfth lawyers should actively participate in social welfare activities.
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