Legal consultation refers to the activities of people engaged in legal services to explain and explain relevant legal affairs and put forward suggestions and solutions. It is not only limited to lawyers' answers to legal knowledge of legal seekers, but also involves a wider range of legal workers' doubts about the law.
Legal consultation refers to providing answers to legal knowledge questions. Due to the complexity of the law, non-professionals often need to turn to lawyers and other legal professionals when they encounter legal problems. Legal advice is divided into free and charged. Usually, online legal consultation is mainly free, and there are also large professional websites that provide online free consultation. In actual legal consultation, lawyers usually charge a certain fee according to the difficulty of the question and the time to answer it.
Legal consultation in a broad sense mainly refers to the whole lawyer industry. Legal consultation in a narrow sense (consulting business in lawyers' traditional business) refers to consulting business other than signing entrustment contracts, that is, lawyers explain and explain relevant legal affairs and put forward suggestions and solutions. Legal consultation is not limited to lawyers' answers to legal knowledge of legal seekers, but also involves the practice of a wider range of legal workers.
Consultation principle
1. Abide by the principle of "basing on facts and taking law as the criterion";
In the work, we should not blindly cater to or even encourage the wrong views of the inquirers, nor should we avoid the important and neglect the important and perfunctory things.
2. It's well founded, don't jump to conclusions;
3. Maximize the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the parties;
Where the legitimate rights and interests of the parties are involved, lawyers should emphasize that they cannot hide the problems that are not conducive to the parties, and try their best to give feasible solutions to the above two situations.
4. Avoid intensifying contradictions and minimize the litigation burden of the parties;
It is not in the fundamental interests of the parties to intensify the contradictions that were not fierce originally, and it also seriously violates the professional ethics of lawyers.
5. Be cautious in consulting the contradictions between the relevant departments and the masses, explain the advantages and disadvantages, and do a good job in grooming to prevent the situation from expanding;
6. When consulting the parties for decision-making, we should pay attention to analyze the gains and losses from both positive and negative aspects to provide feasible reference opinions for the parties, but we can't make decisions instead of the parties to avoid corresponding legal risks;
7. To explain the specific articles cited in the case, it is necessary to analyze the case clearly and explain whether the relevant articles are quoted correctly. However, it is generally not appropriate to explain the scope of application, the size of the fault, the seriousness of the circumstances, etc. Because of the lack of understanding of relevant evidence;
8. For consultations involving other departments, if the specific provisions or details are not clear, the parties may be guided to negotiate with relevant departments.