A lawyer refers to a person who is entrusted or assigned to provide legal services such as litigation agency or defense business for the parties.
Lawyers must pass the legal professional qualification examination and obtain the lawyer's practice certificate according to law before they can practice. 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 clients and working 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.
As far as lawyer qualification is concerned, they include:
1. Have a certain legal knowledge, and have a bachelor degree or above in law major in colleges and universities or a bachelor degree or above in other majors in colleges and universities according to the provisions of the current Lawyers Law;
2. Pass the national legal professional qualification examination and obtain the qualification;
3, approved by the national judicial administrative department, to obtain a practicing certificate; Fourth, provide legal services to the society and take it as a profession.
A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has passed the national legal professional qualification examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted the entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to the parties. The nature of a lawyer is to provide legal services for the society, and he is a professional legal service worker.
The China Bar Examination starts from 1986. China Lawyers Qualification Examination has selected a large number of legal professionals for the lawyer industry in China, many of whom have become the backbone of the lawyer industry. In practice, they strive to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law, and have made due contributions to the construction of democracy and legal system in China.
Since 2002, the internal professional qualification examination has been divided into two types: the prosecutor's examination and the judge's examination, which are collectively called the national unified judicial examination. The main contents of the examination include: theoretical law, applied law, current legal provisions, legal practice and legal professional ethics. The national judicial examination implements national unified proposition and marking, and the results are announced by the National Judicial Examination Office of the Ministry of Justice. The results of the national judicial examination are valid once. Those who pass the national judicial examination shall be awarded the legal professional qualification certificate by the Ministry of Justice.
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Lawyer Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) Article 2 The term "lawyer" as mentioned in this Law refers to a practitioner who has obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or assignment, and provided legal services to clients.
Lawyers should safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and correctly implement the law and social fairness and justice.