Lawyers need a lawyer's qualification certificate and need to take the national unified judicial examination. After passing the examination, you can apply to the local judicial bureau for a lawyer qualification certificate after practicing in a law firm for one year (the number of years varies from place to place, generally speaking, one year).
A lawyer's qualification certificate is a qualification certificate for applying for lawyer's practice and engaging in lawyer's profession. Pass the national unified examination or assessment. From 1986 to 2002. After 2002, the certificate was replaced by the legal professional qualification certificate (national judicial examination).
Registration conditions and related policies for legal professional qualification examination
(a) meet the following conditions, you can sign up for the national unified legal professional qualification examination:
1. has the nationality of the people of China;
2. Support the Constitution of People's Republic of China (PRC) and enjoy the right to vote and stand for election;
3. Have good political, professional quality and moral conduct;
4. Have full capacity for civil conduct;
5. Have a bachelor's degree or above in law in full-time colleges and universities, have a bachelor's degree or above in law in full-time colleges and universities and have a master's degree or above in law, have a bachelor's degree or above in law in full-time colleges and universities and have been engaged in legal work for three years.
Before the implementation of the Measures for the Implementation of the National Unified Legal Professional Qualification Examination, graduates with bachelor's degree or above in law from institutions of higher learning who have obtained their school status (examination results) or obtained corresponding qualifications, or graduates with bachelor's degree or above in law from institutions of higher learning with legal professional knowledge, can sign up for the National Unified Legal Professional Qualification Examination.
If the applicant's household registration is in a relaxed place, the registration qualification can be relaxed to graduate from colleges and universities.
(2) Persons under any of the following circumstances shall not sign up for the national unified legal professional qualification examination:
1. Having received criminal punishment for intentional crime;
2. Being expelled from public office or having his lawyer's practice certificate or notary's practice certificate revoked;
3. The legal professional qualification certificate has been revoked;
4. You may not sign up for the national unified legal professional qualification examination within two years or you may not sign up for the national unified legal professional qualification examination (national judicial examination) for life;
5. Being identified as the joint disciplinary object of dishonesty by the relevant state units due to serious dishonesty and incorporated into the national credit information sharing platform;
6. Being banned from legal occupational therapy for life due to other circumstances.
Those who have obtained Class A legal professional qualification certificates may not sign up for the 2023 national unified legal professional qualification examination.
If you do not meet the requirements of the legal professional qualification examination and have gone through the registration procedures, the registration will be invalid; Those who have already taken the exam will have invalid test results; If a legal professional qualification certificate has been obtained, the Ministry of Justice shall make a decision to revoke the legal professional qualification and cancel the legal professional qualification certificate.