Shortly after he began working there, in 1997, the local bureau of justice confiscated his legal license.

In 1985, these local bureaus were placed under dual leadership of the local government and the national bureau.

The local bureau will check with its counterpart where the company in question is located.

Petitioners in recent years sometimes search for justice through the legal system or local petitioning bureaus.

At the area course the trainee will have a chance to meet trainees from other local bureaux.

Area training will then involve the manager in learning about managing a local bureau.

A local bureau may be approached to talk to a group of probation officers.

Each local bureau or group is a separate independent charity with independent trustees.

When the local environmental bureau dismissed him out of hand, he decided to form his own nongovernmental organization.

"We are doing things now the way we did things in the 1970's when there were few local bureaus," he said.