Pass the national legal professional qualification examination and obtain the qualification; With the approval of the judicial administrative department of the state, he has obtained a practice certificate; Provide legal services to the society and take it as a profession.
Therefore, 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 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.
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1. Lawyers must pass the national judicial examination and obtain the legal professional qualification certificate. People who do not have a lawyer's practice certificate, but are engaged in legal affairs, are generally grassroots legal service workers, and hold a legal service worker's practice certificate issued by the Judicial Bureau. There are also some people who are engaged in legal affairs without a license or proper occupation, commonly known as "black lawyers", not real lawyers.
2. A lawyer must have both a legal professional qualification certificate and a practicing certificate. If you only have a legal professional qualification certificate and no lawyer's practice certificate, you can't call a lawyer.
3. The clients of lawyers are the whole society, and there is no specific target. Both natural persons and legal persons may entrust lawyers to represent legal affairs.
4. To practice law, a lawyer must be entrusted by a party or appointed by a people's court, work within the scope of authorization, and shall not exceed his authority or abuse his power.
5. Lawyers are legal workers. Lawyers can only protect the legitimate rights and interests of clients within the scope permitted by law, and their work within the scope permitted by law is protected by law, without interference from administrative units, clients and individuals.