1, with different legal status. Legally, lawyers are essential and legal affairs are dispensable;
2. Customers are different. Most lawyers are social lawyers, usually working in a law firm, and their clients may be very diverse. The object of enterprise legal service is the enterprise, and the service content is to meet the needs of enterprises in legal affairs;
3. Wage income is different. Lawyers' income mainly comes from lawyers' fees in cases. Each lawyer or team of lawyers directly determines how much money they can earn, but legal affairs are different. The general salary of legal affairs is determined by the enterprise according to the legal work.
4. Lawyers deal with different people. Litigation lawyers will go back and forth between the parties, courts, procuratorates and public security bureaus, while non-litigation lawyers will deal with entrusted companies or individuals and business-related state units. Corporate lawyers are usually internal colleagues, including external lawyers;
5. Different career development paths. Lawyers experience paralegals, lawyers and partners, and corporate legal experience, which is a career development path from paralegals to legal commissioners to legal department directors.
The legal work of the company is as follows:
1, legal risk control of internal and external documents. Draft and review contracts, internal and external letters, etc.
2. Track the latest legal information for management's reference;
3. Participate in negotiations and litigation;
4. Provide legal support and advice to all departments;
5, to provide legal advice for temporary or unexpected events;
6. Trivial and irrelevant work is essential;
7. Handle personnel disputes and go through the examination and approval procedures of the company;
8. Represent the company in court to participate in litigation, or assist the consultant in preparing litigation materials;
9. Contact external professional organizations on behalf of the company to ensure that the company's legal requirements are in place in time;
10, to help solve various legal disputes;
1 1, responsible for reviewing the company's various contract agreement styles and related operating rules and regulations;
12, carry out legal experience exchange and training between the head office and branches, and improve employees' legal awareness;
13. Formulation and revision of contract text, formulation, revision and review of contracts of customers, employees and suppliers;
14. process, collect and sort out information, and cooperate with lawyers to handle legal affairs of the company;
15. collect and analyze the legal information related to the company's business, give professional advice in combination with the company's situation, and put forward preventive measures in time for problems found in the work;
16. Provide consulting and legal advice to the company, provide legal advice to customers and employees, and be responsible for formulating various legal documents of the company.
To sum up, the differences between company lawyers and lawyers include that lawyers are employees of the company, lawyers are legal personnel, lawyers must pass the judicial examination, and lawyers may not pass the judicial examination. The professional requirements of lawyers include passing the judicial examination and obtaining a practicing certificate.
Legal basis:
Article 25 of the Lawyers Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)
Lawyers can engage in the following businesses:
(a) to accept the employment of citizens, legal persons and other organizations as legal advisers;
(two) to accept the entrustment of the parties in civil cases and administrative cases, to act as agents and to participate in litigation;
(3) Accepting the engagement of criminal suspects in criminal cases, providing them with legal advice, representing complaints and accusations, applying for bail pending trial, accepting the entrustment of criminal suspects and defendants or the designation of people's courts as defenders, and accepting the entrustment of private prosecutors in private prosecution cases, victims in public prosecution cases or their close relatives to represent and participate in litigation;
(4) Acting as an agent for appeals in various litigation cases;
(five) to accept the entrustment of the parties and participate in mediation and arbitration activities;
(six) to accept the entrustment of the parties to non-litigation legal affairs and provide legal services;
(seven) to answer questions about the law and write litigation documents and other documents related to legal affairs.