organizations
2) represent litigants in civil and administrative cases and participate in lawsuits
3) provide legal advice and defend suspects in criminal cases, including appeals or filing charges on their behalf and applying for release on bail pending trial
4) represent clients in filing petitions in all types of litigation
5) assist litigants in mediation and arbitration
6) provide legal services not related to litigations
7) answer questions concerning the law and draft legal documents.
Lawyers are no longer called state legal workers, but under Article 2 have been renamed, "personnel who have obtained a business license for setting up a lawyer's practice in accordance with the law and who are providing legal services for the public" (Gittings and Whitfort 59). Instead of being expected to protect the interests of the state, lawyers are now expected to protect "the legitimate rights and interests of his or her client" under Article 27 and his "commercial secrets," but they are still expected to protect "state secrets" under Article 33. In China, there are no Bar Associations which regulate their own profession and punish those who break the p
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