Legal service offices, as the name suggests, are legal service institutions established in towns and city streets in accordance with the "Administrative Measures for Grassroots Legal Service Offices". That is, there are no lawyers (as opposed to law firms). Service worker’s practice organization. The business scope of legal services firms is very wide, covering almost all business scope of law firms except criminal cases.
A law firm is a professional organization composed of lawyers established in accordance with the Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China.
Judicial basis:
Measures for the Management of Grassroots Legal Service Offices
Article 2 Grassroots Legal Service Offices are legal services established in townships and city streets in accordance with these Measures The organization is the practice organization for grassroots legal service workers.
Article 3 Grassroots legal service offices shall, in accordance with the business scope and practice requirements prescribed by the Ministry of Justice, provide services to grassroots government agencies, mass autonomous organizations, enterprises and institutions, social groups, contracted operators, individual industrial and commercial households, Partnership organizations and citizens provide legal services, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of parties, ensure the correct implementation of laws, and promote social stability, economic development and legal system construction.
Grassroots legal service offices are entrusted by county-level judicial administration agencies or township and street judicial offices to assist grassroots judicial administration work.
Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China
Article 2 A law firm is a lawyer's practice institution. A law firm shall be established in accordance with the law and obtain a practice license.
Article 3 Law firms shall carry out business activities in accordance with the law, strengthen the internal management and supervision of lawyers' practice, and assume corresponding legal responsibilities in accordance with the law. No organization or individual may illegally interfere with the business activities of a law firm or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of a law firm.