How Do I Become a Legal Aid Attorney?

Legal aid lawyers are a lawyer position, the biggest feature of which is unpaid. Whether it is a broad-based aid lawyer or a narrow-form aid lawyer, as long as it is engaged in legal aid services, it is not possible to charge lawyer fees.

Legal aid lawyer

Legal aid lawyers are a lawyer position, the biggest feature of which is unpaid. Whether it is a broad-based aid lawyer or a narrow-form aid lawyer, as long as it is engaged in legal aid services, it is not possible to charge lawyer fees.

Chinese name

Legal aid lawyer

Category

Lawyer jobs

Features

Free of charge

Classification

Public Lawyers, Full-time Aid Lawyers

Social lawyers cannot accept lawyer fees for assigned aid cases after they have been assigned by a legal aid agency. Full-time legal aid cannot provide any paid legal services to the society.

Regulations of the State Council on Legal Aid

Article 26

Legal aid agencies and their staff members shall be subject to disciplinary sanctions in accordance with the law if they are directly in charge and other persons who are directly responsible:

(1) Providing legal aid to persons who do not meet the conditions of legal aid, or refusing to provide legal aid to persons who meet the conditions of legal aid;

(2) collecting property in handling legal aid cases;

(3) engaging in paid legal services;

(4) Appropriation, private distribution, or misappropriation of legal aid funds.

The property collected in handling legal aid cases shall be ordered to be returned by the judicial administrative department; the illegal proceeds of paid legal services shall be confiscated by the judicial administrative department; if the appropriation, private distribution, or misappropriation of legal aid funds is ordered to be recovered, If it is serious and constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.

Article 28

If the lawyer has any of the following circumstances, the judicial administrative department shall give a warning and order correction; if the case is serious, he shall be punished for suspension of practice for 1 month to 3 months:

(1) Refusing to accept or terminate legal aid cases without justifiable reasons;

(2) Collecting property in handling legal aid cases.

If there is an illegal act in the second paragraph of the preceding paragraph, the judicial administrative department shall order the return of the illegally obtained property and may concurrently impose a fine of 1 to 3 times the value of the property received.

Article 29

Lawyers who handle legal aid cases in violation of professional ethics and professional discipline shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Lawyers.