Does consulting a lawyer cost money?

There is generally a charge for consulting a lawyer in a law firm. You can choose to consult a lawyer online for free. The charging standard is local, generally 100 ~ 300 yuan/hour. Lawyers charge consulting fees by the hour. According to the complexity and workload of the case, this should be negotiated with lawyers in different regions, which is generally a negotiation system. Usually, the cost will be evaluated according to the difficulty of the question and the time and energy spent answering the question.

People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law

Article 28

Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:

(a) to accept the entrustment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations as legal advisers;

(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;

(3) Accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants in criminal cases or legal aid agencies to act as defenders according to law, accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to participate in litigation as agents;

(four) to accept the entrustment and represent the complaints of various litigation cases;

(five) to accept the entrustment and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;

(6) Accepting entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services;

(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.