According to the Lawyers Law, what businesses can lawyers engage in?

A lawyer is a person entrusted or assigned to provide legal services for clients, which plays a positive role in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients, the correct implementation of laws and social fairness and justice. The role of lawyers is embodied through specific business activities.

A lawyer is a person entrusted or assigned to provide legal services for clients, which plays a positive role in safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of clients, the correct implementation of laws and social fairness and justice. The role of lawyers is embodied through specific business activities.

Chapter IV Lawyers' Business, Rights and Obligations

Article 28 A lawyer 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 and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;

(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.

Article 29 As a legal adviser, a lawyer shall, in accordance with the agreement, provide advice to the client on relevant legal issues, 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.

Article 30 A lawyer representing litigation legal affairs or non-litigation legal affairs shall safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of clients within the scope of entrustment.

Article 31 When acting as a defender, a lawyer shall, according to facts and laws, put forward materials and opinions on acquittal, lighter punishment or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of criminal suspects and defendants, so as to protect the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants.

Article 32 A 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.

After accepting the entrustment, a lawyer shall not refuse to defend or represent without justifiable reasons. However, if the entrusted matter is illegal, the client uses the services provided by the lawyer to engage in illegal activities, or the client deliberately conceals important facts related to the case, the lawyer has the right to refuse to defend or represent him.

Article 33 A lawyer who acts as a defender has the right to meet a criminal suspect or defendant who is detained or under residential surveillance with a lawyer's practice certificate, a law firm certificate, a power of attorney or a power of attorney for legal aid in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Law. Defense lawyers are not monitored when meeting with criminal suspects and defendants.

Article 34 A lawyer who acts as a defender has the right to consult, extract and copy the case file from the date when the people's procuratorate examines and prosecutes the case.

Article 35 An entrusted lawyer may, according to the needs of a case, apply to a people's procuratorate or a people's court to collect and obtain evidence, or apply to a people's court to notify witnesses to testify in court.

If a lawyer investigates and collects evidence by himself, he may, with the lawyer's practice certificate and the certificate of the law firm, investigate the situation related to undertaking legal affairs with the relevant units or individuals.