People's Republic of China (PRC) Lawyers Law
Twenty-third law firms should establish and improve the practice management, conflict of interest review, fees and financial management, complaint investigation, annual assessment and file management systems, and supervise lawyers to abide by professional ethics and practice discipline in their practice activities.
Article 25 When a lawyer undertakes business, the law firm accepts the entrustment, signs a written contract with the client, collects fees in accordance with state regulations and records them truthfully. Law firms and lawyers shall pay taxes according to law.
Article 26 Law firms and lawyers shall not engage in business by slandering other law firms and lawyers or paying referral fees.
Article 28 A lawyer may 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.