2. Should you pay the fees first or later when filing a lawsuit with a lawyer? 1. The lawyer pays the fees first: ordinary agency. In the legal industry, it is common for lawyers to pay fees first. A lawyer who pays litigation fees first is also called a general agent. Generally, after the client signs an entrustment agreement with the lawyer, he or she needs to pay the agency fees first. However, it should be noted that if a lawyer represents a case on a stage-by-stage basis, the charging standards for the first instance, second instance, and execution stages are different; if these stages are all-inclusive, the prices will also be different. These require negotiation between the parties and their lawyers. 2. Lawyer's advance fee: semi-risk agency. Although in principle payment is made first and services are provided later, some cases may encounter financial difficulties or other circumstances. You can negotiate with the law firm or lawyer to pay part of the fee first and pay the other part after the execution is in place. 3. Lawyer’s post-case charges: Risk agency Risk agency, as the name suggests, is a charging method in which the lawyer shares the risk with the client to a certain extent****. The fees of this kind of risk agency will be relatively high, which can be regarded as a commission if the lawsuit is won. If the lawsuit is lost, there will be no fee. Of course, it cannot be too high. Generally, the maximum charge shall not be higher than 30% of the amount agreed in the charging contract. It should be noted that the law has regulations on the types of cases in which lawyers can be represented by risk agents. Risk agents are not allowed in some types of cases, such as marriages, work-related injuries, criminal cases, etc. To sum up, although there are three types of lawyer fees, they basically require the client to pay all or part of the fee in advance. If you have a lawsuit and cannot afford a lawyer, you can try to apply for free legal aid services to see if you meet the criteria for legal aid.
3. Suggestions on how to handle disputes: Consult or entrust a lawyer to handle the matter. Lawyers can: 1. Accept entrustment from natural persons, legal persons or other organizations to serve as legal advisors. 2. Accept entrustment in civil cases and administrative cases and act as an agent to participate in litigation. 3. Accept the entrustment of criminal suspects, defendants or legal aid agencies in accordance with the law to serve as defenders, accept the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims of public prosecution cases or their close relatives, act as agents, and participate in litigation. 4. Accept entrustment to represent appeals in various litigation cases; accept entrustment to participate in mediation and arbitration activities. 5. Accept entrustment to provide non-litigation legal services; answer legal consultations, and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs. Warm reminder: In actual legal issue handling scenarios, specific situations vary from person to person.