Public welfare is the essential attribute of Chinese lawyers
□ Lv Hongbing
The country is the people, and the people are the country.
Chinese lawyers have a distinctive red gene, and there were lawyers in the founding team of the early Communist Party of China.
Over the past century, the Chinese lawyers have made indispensable and outstanding contributions in the great practice of the Chinese nation to stand up, become rich, and become strong.
It is also in this process that the Chinese lawyers' career has been developed by leaps and bounds.
The people's character and public welfare of Chinese lawyers have become the essential attributes of this team.
As an important part of the socialist legal service team with Chinese characteristics, as the main body of the socialist legal service team with Chinese characteristics, lawyers vigorously develop public welfare legal services.
Through the development of public welfare legal services, the people have a greater sense of gain, happiness, and security, which further demonstrates the people's attributes of the lawyer team, and establishes a good social image of lawyers, which has been universally respected and widely respected by the people. support.
This is the basis for the development of the lawyer's career and the root of the growth of the lawyer team.
Only when an industry or a profession can be understood, recognized and respected by the society, can it attract more talents, especially young talents to join this industry, engage in this profession, and work tirelessly for it, so as to ensure the success of this profession and industry. Everlasting foundation.
A career that is profit-only, an industry that sees profits and forgets righteousness, and a team that deviates from public welfare has no future for development, is unsustainable, and is destined to be short-lived.
People are more concerned about lawyers' fees.
In fact, the consideration of lawyers' services and the public welfare of lawyers' services are a dialectical and unified relationship.
The understanding of this relationship depends on the understanding of the "lawyer" itself.
Whether it is the general public, the majority of lawyers, especially young lawyers, they all need to have a true, accurate, and complete grasp of the profession of "lawyers".
This is not only the starting point for ordinary people to understand the issue of lawyers' fees, but also the end point of the majority of lawyers willing to engage in public service.
As a means of earning a living, lawyers are first of all a "professional" and also an "industry". Services must be priced and fees must be charged in accordance with the rules.
At the same time, lawyers are a kind of "professional", with professional requirements and thresholds, thus entering the so-called elite class.
Moreover, this ancient and time-honored profession has developed into an "industry" with industry norms and industry organizations. The sign of its maturity lies in its own industry standard system, its own industry culture, and the positive nature of public welfare. It is one of the connotations of this culture.
More importantly, lawyers are a kind of "career" with people's character. While safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the parties, they also uphold the dignity of the rule of law and social fairness and justice.
Although “viewed as ridges and peaks on the side, with different distances and different heights”, analyzed from multiple angles, the connotation and essence of lawyers are unified. The political direction, the nature of law, the function of society, and the attributes of economy are lacking. Nothing.
Lawyers, especially young lawyers, can truly carry out public welfare legal services from the heart only when they have a full understanding of the essential attributes of lawyers; while industry associations and law firms can truly organize lawyers to carry out public welfare services willingly.
Not only "I want to do it", but also "I want to do it", but also "do it well" and strive to "do it lasting", so that public benefit legal services become the life habit of lawyers and the normal work of law firms.
Public welfare legal services are related to the vital interests of the people, and they are basically the problem of "emergency and worry" for the people.
For example, going to school and medical treatment, or community service and rural revitalization; the professional field covers both the civil code and the prevention of financial risks. It is not only related to eradicating criminals and evil, but also related to the protection of rights in major emergencies. It can be described as numerous, wide-ranging, and difficult.
Lawyers’ public interest and professionalism are needed. Lawyers’ front-line combat power is needed, as well as the back-end organizational power of industry associations.
This is a systematic project, and the initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of lawyers, law firms, and law associations must be brought into play.
Especially for industry associations, there should be a plan and strategy for public welfare legal services, there should be an annual report or white paper on public welfare legal services, and establish a team that can be drawn, stand up, do well, and do well. The public welfare legal service team has made the organization of public welfare legal service the daily work and key content of the industry association.
Since it is a public welfare legal service, it does not belong to the "market return to the market", nor should it be charged at market prices or even high fees, so as to fully reflect the love and dedication of lawyers, lawyers, and the lawyer industry to the people.
In practice, a large number of champions of public welfare legal services have emerged. They are selflessly dedicated, and their love is boundless.
Of course, encouraging more lawyers to participate in public welfare legal services and allowing more lawyers to continue to engage in public welfare legal services requires the establishment of a long-term mechanism.
While deepening the understanding of the profession of lawyers, promoting the attributes of lawyers’ people and public welfare, and promoting outstanding public welfare lawyers, we should also give full play to the enthusiasm of many aspects, namely "four points"——
Lawyers give a little.
This is the original intention and mission of the majority of lawyers to engage in public welfare legal services. In particular, the majority of party member lawyers should rush to the front, work on the front line, and lead more lawyers to give full play to the pioneering and exemplary role of party member lawyers.
The law firm contributes a little.
Law firms should give full play to the role of support and guarantee, and provide all-round support and guarantee as a first-level organization for front-line lawyers to engage in public welfare legal services in terms of talent training, professional support, and income guarantee.
In this process, the party organization of the law firm should give full play to its role as a battle fortress.
The Lawyers Association supports one point.
Lawyers’ associations should establish a public welfare legal service fund to commend and reward outstanding public service lawyers, including material rewards, to establish a model, shape their image, and promote righteousness.
Organize and coordinate lawyers to engage in public welfare legal services. As an industry self-regulatory organization, the Lawyers Association should do a lot and have a lot to do.
The government buys a little.
On the one hand, the government should vigorously carry out the purchase of public welfare legal services; on the other hand, while vigorously guaranteeing financial funds, taxation should also be supported, and the income related to the development of public welfare legal services should be tax-exempted; in addition, excellent public welfare laws should be treated. Service workers provide preferential treatment, support and guarantee in many aspects such as medical treatment, evaluation, and children's education.
At present, the nationwide lawyer industry's education on party history should be integrated with the fulfillment of social responsibilities and the development of public welfare legal services.
We often say that lawyers should fulfill their social responsibilities, and more should combine their own work and professional advantages to provide comprehensive, high-quality, efficient, and balanced legal services for the whole society and the people. The core content is public welfare legal services.
In the new journey, the majority of lawyers must adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, stand firm on the people’s stand, practice the people-centered development thinking, adapt to and meet the needs of the people for legal services, maintain social fairness and justice, and let the people Have more sense of gain, happiness and security.
(The author is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice President of the All China Lawyers Association)