Duties and obligations of lawyers:
1. Provide consultation on legal issues to the client as agreed, draft and review legal documents, participate in litigation, mediation or arbitration activities as an agent, handle other legal affairs entrusted, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the client. If a lawyer acts as an agent for litigation legal affairs or an agent for non-litigation legal affairs, he shall safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the client within the scope of authorization.
2, according to the facts and laws, put forward the criminal suspects and defendants are innocent, the crime is light or reduce or exempt from their criminal responsibility materials and opinions, to protect the criminal suspects and defendants' litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests. The client may refuse his entrusted lawyer to continue to defend or represent him, and at the same time, he may entrust another lawyer to act as a defender or agent.
3, as a legal adviser, agent ad litem, criminal defender, non-litigation agent, participate in mediation and arbitration, answer legal advice, write legal documents, etc. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and the correct implementation of the law.
Lawyers must perform the following obligations in their practice:
1. A lawyer shall keep state secrets and business secrets of the client he knows in his practice activities, and shall not disclose the privacy of the client;
2. A lawyer shall not act as an agent for both parties in the same case;
3. Lawyers shall not accept entrustment, charge fees from clients privately, or accept property from clients;
4. Lawyers shall not take advantage of the convenience of providing legal services to seek the disputed rights and interests of one party or accept the property of the other party;
5. Lawyers shall not meet with judges, prosecutors and arbitrators in violation of regulations;
6. Lawyers shall not treat judges, prosecutors, arbitrators and other relevant staff as gifts or pay bribes, and shall not instigate or induce the parties to pay bribes;
7. Lawyers shall not provide false evidence to conceal facts or threaten or induce others to provide false evidence, conceal facts or hinder the other party from obtaining evidence according to law;
8. Lawyers shall not disturb the order of courts and arbitration tribunals or interfere with the normal conduct of litigation and arbitration activities;
9. Lawyers shall not seek business by slandering other lawyers or paying referral fees.
10. A lawyer who once served as a judge or prosecutor may not serve as an agent ad litem or defender within 2 years after leaving the people's court or people's procuratorate.
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Legal basis: Article 2 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) 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. Article 3 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): Lawyers must abide by the Constitution and laws, and strictly abide by their professional ethics and practice discipline. Lawyers' practice must be based on facts and take the law as the criterion. Lawyers' practice should be supervised by the state, society and the parties concerned. Lawyers' legal practice is protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of lawyers.