Lawyers are service occupations, and their duties are:

1, as an agent in civil cases or as a defender or agent in criminal cases;

2. Handling non-litigation legal affairs and participating in economic project negotiations;

3, as a legal adviser to organs, large and medium-sized enterprises, institutions and organizations;

4, study and solve the difficult problems encountered in the lawyer's business activities;

5. Guide the professional work of paralegals;

6. Answer legal advice and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.

Article 28 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), lawyers may engage in the following businesses:

(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;

(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;

(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects in criminal cases, providing them with legal advice, representing appeals and accusations, applying for bail for arrested criminal suspects, accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants or the designation of people's courts, acting as defenders, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives, and representing them in litigation;

(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;

(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;

(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;

(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.