Adopting the methodologies of Globalization and World City( Ga WC) Research Network,the spatial distribution of the headquarters and divisions of the top 50 law firms in 289 Chinese cities is analyzed. The main findings include:( 1) the service value and connectivity of cities in coastal area and capital cities of inland provinces are generally high,the law firms are highly concentrated in few large cities such as Beijing,Shanghai and Shenzhen,and mainly distribute in the 20% of all the cities;( 2) at the s...