Legal analysis: Under normal circumstances, the lawyer's fee arising from the water leakage of the house shall be borne by the party who hired the lawyer. However, if the parties to the contract stipulate the subject matter of the lawyer's fee in the contract, or in some intellectual property cases such as trademark rights and patent rights, the plaintiff requests the defendant to bear the lawyer's fee for investigating and stopping the infringement in the complaint, the court may decide that the lawyer's fee shall be borne by the losing party.
Legal basis: Article 25 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), when a lawyer undertakes business, the law firm shall uniformly accept the entrustment, sign a written entrustment contract with the client, uniformly collect fees according to the provisions of the state, and record them truthfully.
Law firms and lawyers shall pay taxes according to law.