A reading map for choosing a PRC law firm, defining scope and fees, and sharing case information safely.
Start with your current stage: first contact, firm selection, document preparation, written analysis or a litigation fee comparison.
Are you making first contact or deciding what to send?
Use the first-contact, document-pack and privacy guides to prepare the initial exchange.
Are you checking a firm, a lawyer or a written legal opinion?
Use the consultation, firm-check and legal-opinion guides for that screening stage.
Are you comparing a Shenzhen or litigation engagement scope?
Use the general Shenzhen scope guide or the litigation-specific fee-basket guide.
All guides in this topic
A Hong Kong client’s first Mainland China lawyer consultation
Use this guide to structure the city, matter, formal document, deadline, parties and questions for triage.
When to request a Mainland China legal opinion
Use this guide to define the decision, source documents, evidence gaps and requested form of analysis.
Checks before hiring a PRC law firm
Use this guide to verify the firm, responsible lawyer, written scope, billing path and handover arrangements.
Scope questions before hiring a Shenzhen lawyer
Use this guide to separate consultation, investigation, negotiation, proceedings, preservation, documents and handover.
Comparing a Mainland China litigation fee scope
Use this guide to separate the procedural stage from lawyer work and third-party cost categories.
Documents to send a Mainland China lawyer
Use this guide to build an issue summary, chronology, party table, evidence index and source-file list.
Sharing case files safely with a lawyer in China
Use this guide to stage the first exchange and limit each disclosure to the defined task.
A seven-box first-contact summary for PRC counsel
Use this guide when the immediate need is a compact, structured first message rather than a full file upload.
Who wrote this
Peng Zibin (彭子镔) — Lawyer; Beijing Dongyuan Law Firm, Shenzhen Office (registered name: BEIJING DONGYUAN LAW FIRM SHENZHEN OFFICE), law firm practising licence number 24403201011309995; practice areas: criminal compliance, criminal defence, economic crime and criminal-civil intersection disputes。
Not legal advice
This article is general information, not legal advice, and reading it does not create a lawyer-client relationship. Outcomes turn on the specific facts. Before acting, please obtain advice on your own circumstances.