What does the lawyer have to pay?

The fees charged by lawyers include: lawyer service fees, fees paid on behalf of clients, travel expenses for handling cases in different places, etc. These three items add up to legal fees, which can only be collected by law firms. Without permission, a lawyer may not charge any fees to the client. In addition to the above three fees, law firms and lawyers may not charge other fees from clients in any name.

Lawyer fee standard:

1. Lawyer's service fee: there are two kinds of government-guided price and market-adjusted price.

(1) Acting as an agent in civil litigation, administrative litigation and state compensation cases; To provide legal advice to criminal suspects, represent their complaints and accusations, apply for bail pending trial, act as defendants' defenders or agents ad litem of private prosecutors and victims, and represent their complaints in various litigation cases, government-guided prices must be implemented. However, the benchmark price and floating range of government-guided prices shall be formulated by the competent price departments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in conjunction with the judicial administrative departments at the same level. Therefore, the specific charging standards of law firms in different places may be different.

(2) Other legal services provided by law firms other than the above: the market-regulated charges are implemented, that is, they are determined by the law firm and the client through consultation, and determined by the law firm and the client through consultation according to the working hours, difficulty, client's affordability, possible risks and responsibilities of lawyers, lawyer's social reputation, work level and other factors of specific cases.

(3) Regarding the lawyer's charging methods, there are piece rate, bid rate and time-based charging, but piece rate is generally applicable to legal affairs that do not involve property relations, bid rate is applicable to legal affairs that involve property relations, and time-based charging can be applied to all legal affairs.

To sum up, the fees charged by the company include: lawyer service fees, fees paid on behalf of clients, and travel expenses for handling cases in different places.

Legal basis:

Article 13 of the Measures for the Administration of Lawyers' Fees

To implement the risk agency fee, the law firm shall sign a risk agency fee contract with the client, and stipulate the risk responsibility, charging method, charging amount or proportion that both parties should bear.

The maximum risk agency fee shall not be higher than 30% of the target amount agreed in the charging contract.

Article 16

When accepting the entrustment, a law firm shall sign a contract with the client for charging lawyer services or specify the charging terms in the entrustment contract.

The charging contract or charging terms shall include: charging items, charging standards, charging methods, charging amounts, payment and settlement methods, dispute settlement methods, etc.