How to sign a contract with a lawyer

Legal analysis: 1. Entrusting a lawyer needs to go to a law firm to handle the entrustment procedures. If a law firm thinks that it can hire a lawyer, it shall sign a contract with the parties, go through the entrustment formalities, clarify the rights and obligations of the parties and the law firm, specify the name of the lawyer entrusted by the law firm to handle the case, and be signed and sealed by the parties and the law firm, indicating the date of conclusion of the contract. The legal service of the lawyer who pays the agency fee is a paid service, so the parties must pay a certain lawyer fee when hiring a lawyer. Generally speaking, according to the provisions of the Trial Measures, law firms will charge the parties a handling fee within the prescribed scope according to the actual situation such as the complexity of undertaking business, the length of time required and the number of litigation objects.

Legal basis: Article 490 of the General Principles of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): If the parties conclude a contract in the form of a contract, the contract is established when the parties sign, seal or press their fingerprints. Before signing, sealing or fingerprinting, one party has fulfilled its main obligations, and the contract is established when the other party accepts it. A contract shall be concluded in written form as stipulated by laws, administrative regulations or agreed by the parties. If the parties do not do this in writing, but one party has fulfilled its main obligations and the other party accepts it, the contract is established.