The penalties for lawyers are divided into the following categories:
1, warning. Failing to respect the members of the court and causing adverse effects; Insulting or belittling other lawyers or soliciting business by improper means; Lawyers who fail to appear in court on time without justifiable reasons will be warned.
2. Stop practicing for three to six months. Deliberately misinterpreting the law to meet the improper demands of the parties; Due to the lawyer's own fault, the rights and interests of the parties have been seriously violated or caused heavy losses; Failing to complete the required workload without justifiable reasons; Lawyers who fail to work in a law firm without justifiable reasons and are absent from work for ten or six days in a row shall be suspended from practicing for three to six months.
3. Stop practicing for six to twelve months. Accepting entrustment privately and charging fees; Lawyers who demand property from their clients or their interested parties and receive extra remuneration from their clients will be suspended from practicing for six to twelve months.
4. Stop practicing for two years. Bribery to prosecutors, judges or other staff members of law enforcement organs, or instigating or inducing parties to pay bribes to the above-mentioned personnel; Lawyers who bring the defendant's family members or other personnel to meet the defendant in custody, or illegally carry money and goods for the defendant, or transmit information related to the case, will be suspended from practicing for two years, and if the circumstances are serious, their qualifications as lawyers will be revoked.
5. Disqualification as a lawyer. Instigating or inducing the parties or others to make false statements and provide perjury; Revealing state secrets or customer secrets, causing heavy losses to customers; Moral quality is corrupt; Being subject to criminal punishment (except negligent crime); Was expelled from China * * * Party membership; Lawyers who are subject to administrative dismissal will be disqualified.
What does a legal aid lawyer mean?
Broad sense: Legal aid lawyers can be divided into broad sense and narrow sense. In a broad sense, aid lawyers include social lawyers appointed by legal aid agencies to provide legal aid services for a case, which is called case aid lawyers. It also includes full-time legal aid lawyers who specialize in legal aid services.
Narrow sense: Legal aid lawyers Legal aid lawyers in a narrow sense, also known as public lawyers and full-time aid lawyers, refer to people who are employed by legal aid institutions or other government departments, pass the national legal professional qualification examination, obtain legal professional qualification certificates and lawyer practice qualification certificates, and specialize in legal aid work. The establishment of such personnel belongs to the state administration or institutions and enjoys the treatment of the staff of the state administration and institutions.
In a word, the lawyers' association enjoys the right of disciplinary acceptance, disciplinary investigation and disciplinary suggestion. Judicial administrative organs at all levels should strengthen professional training and professional ethics education for lawyers, and improve their professional quality and service quality. Various measures should be taken to make lawyers generally and fairly undertake the obligation of legal aid.
Legal basis: Article 46 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) shall perform the following duties: (1) to ensure lawyers to practice according to law and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests; (2) Summarizing and exchanging the working experience of lawyers; (three) to formulate industry norms and disciplinary rules; (4) Organizing lawyers' professional training, professional ethics and practice discipline education, and assessing lawyers' practice activities; (five) to organize and manage the internship activities of lawyers, and to assess the interns; (6) Rewarding and punishing lawyers and law firms; (7) Accepting complaints or reports against lawyers, mediating disputes arising from lawyers' practice activities and accepting lawyers' complaints; (eight) other duties stipulated by laws, administrative regulations, rules and the articles of association of the lawyers association. The industry norms and disciplinary rules formulated by the Lawyers Association shall not contravene the relevant laws, administrative regulations and rules.