Lawyers should keep confidential the information and materials that their clients and others are unwilling to disclose in their practice activities. However, criminal facts and information that endanger national security, public safety and other serious personal and property safety of others are not included.
Modern lawyers, different from ancient litigators and lawyers, refer to practitioners who have passed the national judicial examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to clients.
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 client and work 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.
Scope of lawyer's duty of confidentiality
1. Lawyers shall keep state secrets and business secrets they know in their practice activities and shall not disclose the privacy of their clients. Lawyers should keep confidential the information and materials that their clients and others are unwilling to disclose in their practice activities.
2. The defense lawyer has the right to keep confidential the relevant information and information of the client he knows in his practice.
3. However, criminal facts and information that endanger national security, public safety and other serious hazards to the personal and property safety of others are not included.
Lawyer means a high-paying industry in the eyes of many people now, but few people can see its harsh nature through his shiny appearance. Lawyers have high knowledge and moral requirements. So it's not just a profitable industry.