What's the difference between domestic and foreign lawyers?

Comparison between Chinese and foreign lawyers.

So far, the western modern lawyer industry has formed a relatively complete system. Today, the industry has matured and has the following outstanding characteristics:

1, with high degree of rule of law and wide coverage of legal affairs. Lawyers, judges and prosecutors do not exist separately, but are an organic whole. They have formed a relatively complete occupation ruled by law, which has both advantages and disadvantages. Lawyers have a high accuracy in predicting cases, ranging from murder and arson to speeding. The law is closely related to major issues in life.

2. High level of application of science and technology. Lawyers have a high degree of use of case handling tools, and the management of law firms and lawyers' case handling methods are high in science and technology. Law firms have generally realized office automation, and their legal and technical products are relatively mature.

3. High degree of specialization. In the west, the division of responsibilities of law firms is more detailed, and law firms generally equip lawyers with more paralegals. Lawyers don't need to be distracted by their daily work, but can concentrate on studying cases, and the daily work is done by paralegals. Lawyers can dig deep into their professional fields, which is conducive to the growth of their professional knowledge.

4. Mature business operation. The operation of law firms tends to be corporatized, and the firm implements a high degree of professional division of labor, and the firm uniformly distributes cases to individual lawyers according to the characteristics of cases. Generally speaking, clients tend to choose lawyer service providers according to the size and popularity of the firm, rather than the professional level and popularity of lawyers.

Due to the rapid development of the lawyer industry and the increasingly fierce competition in the same industry, the firm pays more attention to the lawyer business and the commercial operation of the law firm. Rapid growth has forced many enterprises to reform and innovate their organizational structure in order to re-integrate various resources, promote services and establish and maintain relationships with customers more effectively.

On the other hand, the lawyer industry in China has made great progress after decades of market-oriented development, and has developed a lawyer practice system with China characteristics according to the domestic situation. However, in some respects, western experience can also be used for reference.