Legal basis: Article 12 of the Measures for the Administration of Lawyers' Service Fees prohibits the implementation of risk agency fees in criminal litigation cases, administrative litigation cases, state compensation cases and group litigation cases.
Article 40 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC): A lawyer shall not seek the disputed rights and interests of the parties in his practice by taking advantage of providing legal services. Generally, the risk agency fee is charged according to the target amount finally realized by the parties through the agent's agency activities, which comes from other parties. Charging excessive risk agency fees is actually an act of "taking advantage of the convenience of providing legal services to seek the disputed rights and interests of the parties". In the above case, one of the reasons why a law firm's request for paying high agency fees was not fully supported was that it included alimony in the subject matter of risk agency fees, but in fact it was forbidden to implement risk agency fees for alimony.