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Find a lawyer in China for the work you need.
Browse China lawyers by practice area or city. Start with company formation, employment, contracts, intellectual property, disputes, trade, immigration, family matters, and other legal needs—then review profiles and the relevant legal guide before making an enquiry.
Choose the legal context first. Then use the most direct profile or enquiry pathway.
Directory and intake onlyStart with what you know
Search the directory, then inspect the right route.
Use a practice when the legal issue is clear, a city when the matter is place-specific, or a structured intake if both remain uncertain.
Practice indexChina legal need
Practice routes organise discovery—not a legal conclusion.
Choose the workstream that most directly owns the next decision. Supporting explainers and local-market routes sit behind the lawyer-profile path.
Business & trade
Entity setup, contracts and cross-border trade
People
Workforce, immigration and family matters
Assets & IP
Brands, property and products
Risk & disputes
Claims, proceedings and defence
City deskLocation may matter more
Place the matter in the city where the work will happen.
Six major-city shortcuts only. The full city, province and municipality atlas lives on the location route.
Prepare before contacting counsel
Compare the profile route with the legal context.
Counsel CompassChoose the next useful route
A counsel search begins with the legal context.
Move between China counsel, a local city or province route, international counsel and structured intake without confusing directory search with legal advice.