The Lawyers Law clearly stipulates that lawyers can't charge fees privately, and the fees should be transferred to the account of the law firm and invoiced.
However, in practice, such as consulting fees, which are generally 300 to 500, it is unlikely that similar fees will be transferred to the account of the law firm to help people retrieve an identity information or an internal industrial and commercial file 1000 to 2000. Because after all, there is not much money, so the law firm will not care too much. However, this practice is definitely risky. A lawyer in Zhejiang helps people get identity information. This alone can have more than 200 thousand a year. Moreover, there has been no invoice, and it is all privately collected. After being found out by the law firm, he was finally punished by the Justice Bureau.
If it is a lawyer's fee, not all lawyers can entrust it in the law firm, so sometimes you can receive WeChat or Alipay first, and then transfer it to the account of the law firm to invoice. But after receiving it, it is a very serious problem not to issue an invoice and hand it over to the law firm. There are also such people around, who are directly reported by the parties and punished.