Lawyer's fees refer to all relevant fees charged by lawyers to clients when they accept the entrustment to handle legal affairs, mainly including service fees and case handling fees. The service fee is the lawyer's remuneration for handling legal affairs for the client and paying his labor; Handling fee refers to other expenses and expenses except service fee.
Lawyers may win or lose. Lawyers who get paid for their work should charge corresponding fees. Piece-rate charging is one of the most widely used charging methods for lawyers in China. Piece-by-piece fees refer to the fees charged by law firms according to the number of cases, and the specific fees are determined according to the prescribed or negotiated standards. Proportional charging refers to the law firm charging fees according to the amount of the subject matter of the dispute, and the specific charging proportion standard is determined according to the law or the proportion determined through consultation with the client. In China, proportional charges are generally applicable to legal affairs involving property relations, such as economic cases, civil cases, administrative cases, non-litigation cases and cases involving property rights such as portrait rights, reputation rights, copyrights, trademarks and patents.
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Measures for the administration of lawyers' service fees
Article 5 A law firm shall provide the following legal services in accordance with the law, and implement government-guided prices:
(1) Acting as an agent in civil litigation cases;
(2) Acting as an agent in administrative litigation cases;
(3) Acting as an agent for state compensation cases;
(four) to provide legal advice to criminal suspects in criminal cases, to represent complaints and accusations, to apply for bail pending trial, and to act as the defendant's defender, private prosecutor or agent ad litem of the victim;
(5) Acting as an agent for appeals in various litigation cases.
The fees charged by law firms for providing other legal services shall be subject to market-regulated prices. Article 10 Lawyers' service fees may be charged according to different service contents, such as piecework fees, fees in proportion to the bid amount, and hourly fees. Piece rate is generally applicable to legal affairs that do not involve property relations; Charging according to the proportion of the winning bid amount is applicable to legal affairs involving property relations; Time charge is applicable to all legal affairs. Article 19 The lawyer's fees, arbitration fees, appraisal fees, notarization fees and file retrieval fees paid by a law firm on behalf of the client in the process of providing legal services are not lawyer's service fees, and should be paid separately by the client.