First, try to hire lawyers with more than three years of professional experience and certain litigation and legal consulting experience.
Second, according to the business areas of enterprises, such as real estate, steel, labor dispatch, etc. , choose a professional lawyer or a lawyer with certain service experience in this field.
Three, the legal adviser generally signed a legal advisory service contract every year, agreed on the service fee, service scope, whether the litigation case will be charged separately, charging standards, etc.
Fourth, the company appoints a special person (usually the company's legal department or the legal department) to contact the legal adviser to handle legal affairs.
Fifth, the purpose of legal counsel is often not only contract review, legal consultation and litigation agency. Legal advisers can do some investigation and analysis on the risks in the company's business field, and then issue suggestions or schemes to avoid risks. Of course, this requires a higher professional ability of legal counsel.
As for the service mode of legal counsel, whether it is regular duty or temporary contact, the cost of legal counsel depends on the actual situation of the company's scale and business volume.
The basic work of a legal adviser:
1. Draft, formulate, review or modify contracts or other legal documents for the company, gradually establish and improve the company's contract management system, and prevent contract disputes; (The instrument can be a Chinese-English contract);
2. Help to establish and improve the rules and regulations of human resources, administration, management and finance;
3. Consulting and answering legal problems arising in the daily operation of the company or issuing legal opinions;
4. Provide legal training for employees at the request of the company;
5. When the company may face a legal dispute, propose a solution, issue a lawyer's letter, or participate in the mediation of related disputes;
6. Acting in litigation and arbitration according to law to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the company;
7. Participate in various business negotiations at the request of the company;
8. Handle other affairs entrusted by the company.