The status of lawyers and legal counsel in the PRC and in the countries of Central Asia

Purpose: The comparison of the legal status of lawyers under the law of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Republic of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Turkmenistan. The research of the legal status of legal counsels in the PRC and the Republic of Kazakhstan. The author doesn’t purpose to present to the reader the status of foreign lawyers engage in professional activities in the these countries within the framework of this article. Methodology: Formal-legal and comparative-legal methods were used. Results: In article the conditions for engaging advocate activity and the powers of lawyers in these counties are analyzed. The information on the law firm and other bar associations also of self-regulatory organizations of lawyers in these republics is presented. The author compares the status of legal counsels in the PRC and the Republic of Kazakhstan. 3 types of legal counsels in PRC are compared, namely, basic legal counsels, legal counsels providing legal services by registering as an individual entrepreneur or by establishing a commercial organization and corporate lawyers...