FOR LAWYERS
Lawyers in Taiwan who post on Threads should check these first: promising outcomes ("guaranteed win"), stating win rates, implying ties to courts or prosecutors, and posts that invite DMs or bookings without the lawyer's name, firm, address and phone; these rules come from Article 29 of the bar's Code of Ethics and Articles 2, 4 and 5 of its business promotion rules. MindThread's industry rule pack for legal services checks posts, cloud patrol comments and auto-replies before they are sent: wording the rules explicitly prohibit goes back to drafts with the basis, and context-dependent wording is published with a warning.
By the MindThread team |
Data date: 12 November 2026. Versions: Attorney Regulation Act (律師法, amended 28 May 2025 per the national law database); Code of Ethics for lawyers (律師倫理規範, fully amended 2022, in force 1 August 2022, Article 53-1 added 18 April 2026); bar business promotion rules (律師推展業務規範, amended 3 July 2022, in force 1 August 2022). Original wording fetched from official pages on 5 to 7 November 2026. English text on this page is our own summary; the Chinese original is authoritative.
As of November 2026, the provisions to check are Article 40 of the Attorney Regulation Act, Article 29 of the Code of Ethics and Articles 2, 4, 5 and 7 of the bar's business promotion rules; the national bar association also requires evidence before a lawyer calls themselves an expert.
律師不得挑唆訴訟，或以誇大不實、不正當之方法推展業務。Our summary: lawyers must not stir up litigation or promote their practice by exaggerated, untrue or improper means.
律師就受任事件，不得擔保將獲有利之結果。Our summary: a lawyer must not guarantee a favourable result. On Threads this looks like "we guarantee you will win".
律師推展業務，不得有下列情形：…三、誇大或使人抱有過度期待。…六、明示或暗示與公務機關有特殊關係或影響力。Our summary: no exaggeration or raising excessive expectations, and no express or implied special ties to public authorities ("we know the judges").
律師推展業務，不得表示下列事項：一、訴訟之勝訴率。Our summary: no litigation win rates. Items 2 to 4 also restrict naming retainer clients (顧問對象) or clients and describing pending or past cases, with exceptions such as prior written consent.
律師推展業務，應表明律師姓名、律師事務所名稱、地址以及電話。廣告時，應於各式傳播內容明顯處表明為廣告之意旨。但事務所或律師之官方網站，不在此限。Our summary: promotion must show the lawyer's name, firm name, address and phone, and ads must be clearly labelled as ads (the bar's web version lists the ad sentence as paragraph 4, same wording). Paragraph 1 calls promotion aimed at the public advertising and promotion aimed at a specific person solicitation. The pack treats posts that invite DMs or bookings as solicitation posts and checks for these four details.
律師不得藉支付費用或其他對價與單純介紹案件之人以推展業務。但經本會許可之律師平台服務，不在此限。Our summary: no paying people who merely refer cases, except platforms the bar association has approved; its letter No. 113232 of 29 March 2024 states that, as of that letter, it had not approved any online platform to refer cases to lawyers. We have not checked whether any platform has been approved since.
律師自稱為某特定法律領域之專家或甚至權威，仍應有相當之事證依據Our summary: calling yourself an expert or authority in a field needs supporting evidence such as publications or case volume. The letter is dated 3 November 2008 and applies Article 12 of the Code of Ethics as it stood before the 2022 amendment.
As of November 2026, for a MindThread account with the legal services pack on, AI-written posts, your own or imported drafts, scheduled and publish-now posts, cloud patrol comments and auto-replies are all checked by the same rules before sending: wording the rules explicitly prohibit or the product design lists goes back to drafts with the basis, and context-dependent wording is published with a warning.
The pack's rules match Traditional Chinese wording; the table gives the Chinese phrases with our translations. English is matched only for a few phrases: "guaranteed win" or "guarantee a win", "100% win" and "win rate", and a negation such as "do not" does not stop those English phrases from matching.
| Wording | Basis | What the pack does |
|---|---|---|
| Guaranteed win (保證勝訴), sure win (穩贏), guaranteed discharge (保證免責) | Code of Ethics Art. 29; promotion rules Art. 4 item 3 | Post returned to drafts; comment not sent |
| Win rate or share of cases won written with Arabic numerals (勝訴率 95%, 打贏 9 成) | Promotion rules Art. 5(1) item 1 | Returned to drafts |
| Knowing judges, connections at court (跟法院很熟, 有門路) | Promotion rules Art. 4 item 6 | Returned to drafts |
| Posts inviting DMs or bookings without name, firm, address or phone | Promotion rules Art. 2(3) (PDF numbering) | Returned to drafts; with details filled in and auto-append on, the disclosure line is added when published |
| Most professional, strongest, star lawyer (最專業, 最強, 金牌律師) | Promotion rules Art. 4 item 3 | Warning |
| Calling yourself an expert or authority | Bar letter No. 97205 (Article 12 before the 2022 amendment) | Warning |
| Mentioning cases you are currently handling (受任中, 目前承辦的案子) | Promotion rules Art. 5(1) item 3; Code of Ethics Art. 25(3) | Warning |
| Paying referral fees or platform commissions for cases | Promotion rules Art. 7(1) | Warning (practising lawyer accounts) |
| Words that disparage judges or prosecutors, such as 恐龍法官 or 法官收錢 | Code of Ethics Art. 25(1) and (2) | Warning (practising lawyer accounts) |
| Conclusions about a reader's own case | Product design | Warning unless you confirm you are the licensed professional; never sent as a comment |
| A non-lawyer account offering to take on litigation (幫你打官司, 委任我) | Attorney Regulation Act Art. 127 | Warning (legal information accounts) |
We ran these three posts through MindThread's legal services pack on 12 November 2026 and each came back with 0 blocks and 0 warnings; the first two pass as a practising lawyer (with or without the professional box ticked) and as a legal information account, and the third invites DMs for bookings and needs the disclosure details filled in first.
Our summary: check who sent it, what they want and the deadline; whether and how to reply depends on your contract and records; bring them to a lawyer.
The Chinese sentence 我們不保證勝訴 (we do not guarantee a win) is negated, so the pack lets it through; the word 諮詢 (consultation) on its own is not treated as solicitation.
Added automatically when published: 廣告｜〇〇〇 律師｜〇〇法律事務所｜事務所地址｜事務所電話
The pack treats posts that invite DMs or bookings as solicitation posts: with the four disclosure details filled in and auto-append on, the line above is added when published; without them the post is returned to drafts.
Passing the pack means none of its rules matched; it does not mean the post is legally sound. The pack is an assistive check, not legal advice; members are responsible for their posts and comments.
As of November 2026, for a MindThread account with the legal services pack on, cloud patrol comments and auto-replies follow stricter comment rules than posts: the AI gives no case-specific conclusions, does not solicit, quote fees or leave phone numbers or links, and any match against the pack's rules stops the comment from being sent.
As of November 2026, MindThread industry rule packs can be turned on with any paid plan and during the 14-day trial for new sign-ups; the Free plan shows the settings card but cannot turn a pack on.
The rule text on this MindThread page (Threads for lawyers) was fetched from these official pages between 2026-11-05 and 2026-11-07.
This page sets out the original wording of the rules and how MindThread behaves; it is not legal advice. If anything is wrong, email contact@ultralab.tw and we will check, correct it and update the data date.