Lawyers cannot open a company while practicing law. The law stipulates that lawyers should not hold corporate positions, participate in corporate management, or engage in business activities during their practice period. Lawyers shall practice full-time during their professional life, unless they are part-time lawyers or otherwise provided by laws or administrative regulations. Law firms shall carry out business activities within the legal scope of business, shall not establish enterprises as sole proprietorships, joint ventures with others, or entrusted shareholdings, and shall appoint lawyers to serve as legal representatives and general managers of enterprises, and shall not engage in other operations unrelated to legal services. sexual activity.
Article 27 of the "Lawyers Law of the People's Republic of China" Law firms shall not engage in business activities other than legal services. Article 28 Lawyers may engage in the following businesses: (1) Accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisors; (2) Accept the entrustment of parties to civil cases and administrative cases, act as agents and participate in litigation; (3) ) Accept the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or accept the assignment of legal aid institutions in accordance with the law to serve as defenders, accept the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims of public prosecution cases or their close relatives, act as agents, and participate in litigation; (4) Accept entrustment to represent appeals in various litigation cases; (5) Accept entrustment to participate in mediation and arbitration activities; (6) Accept entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services; (7) Answer legal inquiries, write litigation documents and related matters Other documents for legal matters.
Specialized scope of lawyers
Specialized scope of lawyers include: 1. Lawyers can serve as perennial legal advisors or special legal advisors to citizens, legal persons or other organizations; collect collections on behalf of enterprises and individuals Payments for goods, loans, project payments, etc. 2. Provide legal advice, issue lawyer letters and legal opinions, and act as an agent in litigation, enforcement and arbitration of civil, economic and administrative cases; 3. Handle trademark registration, patent applications, act as an agent in trademark and patent infringement cases; handle corporate financing Non-litigation legal matters such as leasing, real estate, company investment, company bankruptcy and liquidation, etc.