Legal basis: "Measures for the Administration of Lawyer Service Fees"
Article 3 Lawyer service fees shall follow the principles of openness, fairness, voluntary compensation and good faith.
Law firms should facilitate and benefit the people, strengthen internal management, reduce service costs, and provide clients with convenient and high-quality legal services.
Article 4: Lawyer service fees shall be subject to government-guided prices and market-regulated prices.
Article 8 The government should fully consider the local economic development level, social affordability and the long-term development of the lawyer industry, and determine fees by compensating the average social cost of lawyer services, plus reasonable profits and statutory taxes and fees. standard.
Article 14 Law firms shall strictly implement the management measures and charging standards for lawyer service fees formulated by the pricing department in conjunction with the judicial administrative department at the same level.
Article 15 Law firms shall publish information such as lawyer service management methods and charging standards, and accept social supervision.
Article 16 When a law firm accepts an entrustment, it shall sign a lawyer service fee contract with the client, or specify the charging terms in the entrustment contract.
The charging contract or charging terms should include: charging items, charging standards, charging methods, charging amounts, payment and settlement methods, dispute resolution methods, etc.