Legal consultation is for people who provide legal services, and people in legal affairs institutions established within legal persons or other organizations, while lawyers are people who are hired by citizens, legal persons or other organizations to provide legal services. There is a difference between the two.

Lawyers, different from ancient litigators and lawyers, refer to practitioners who have passed the national judicial examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to clients.