What a lawyer in China is allowed to charge

Lexfee puts each city's lawyer-fee rule on its own page, copied from the provincial document that applies there. A repealed table is labeled as repealed. Where the government has no current price, the page says so instead of inventing one.

National rulesWhat moved to negotiation in 2021, and which cases still cannot use a contingent fee. Contingent-fee capThe progressive ceiling: 18, 15, 12, 9, then 6 percent. Beijing rangesThe 2016 guidance table was cancelled. Since 1 April 2018 the fee is negotiated. By cityProvincial standards, shown on a page for each city, with the document dated.

English search results still circulate the old line that a Chinese lawyer may take 30 percent. The Ministry of Justice opinion published as 司发通〔2021〕87号 replaced that flat cap with a progressive one, and it told provincial bar associations not to write the fee schedule themselves.