1, with different legal status. Lawyers are legal service personnel clearly stipulated by Chinese laws. Like judges and prosecutors, they are an indispensable part of the national judicial system. Many legal procedures clearly stipulate that professionals with lawyer qualifications must participate. The legal profession is the product of the market, which is established by enterprises according to their own needs, and the scope of responsibilities and authority is determined. For example, some company lawyers have the right to participate in the company's decision-making and have the right to vote on some major decisions of the company, while some company lawyers do not have such power, which is not stipulated by law. It can be said that in law, lawyers are essential and legal affairs are dispensable.
2. Customers are different. Most lawyers are social lawyers. They usually work in a law firm, which is their work unit. Their work itself is not for law firms, and their clients may be very diverse, including various subjects in society, such as enterprises, individuals and governments. Of course, there are also public lawyers, military lawyers, and corporate lawyers who serve specific targets and cannot serve subjects outside the work unit. 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. Therefore, the income of lawyers is generally fixed, and the salary increase is planned, while lawyers are not fixed. The salary is determined according to the quantity and quality of the cases they undertake. Compared with lawyers and lawyers' income, the lawyer industry is generally better than lawyers, but the growth of lawyers' income depends more on experience and opportunities. So there are some variables at the beginning of your career or in the case of bad opportunities. We can learn more about the lawyer's income. The lawyer's salary will increase regularly with the efficiency of the company and the promotion of the position. When the lawyer told you that he had no case to handle, he might have already done it. You don't have to worry about the lawyer when he tells you that he has no case to handle. He may be on vacation now.
4. Lawyers deal with different people. If we compare the working rhythm of lawyers and lawyers to games, lawyers are like greedy snakes, eating everywhere, while lawyers are more like Tetris. As long as there is a task, put it in place. 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. Comparatively speaking, the object of corporate legal affairs is relatively simple, usually colleagues within the company, including external lawyers.
5. Different career development paths. When they first entered the law firm, college students could only assist lawyers as paralegals. Even if you get a lawyer's license, you may still be a paralegal in a law firm. When they gradually have strong business development ability, they can apply to become partners in law firms. Of course, it takes an average of 7 to 10 years for a new person. The company's legal experience is the career development path from legal assistant to legal Commissioner to director of legal department. It is worth mentioning that many practitioners change careers between lawyers and legal professions, which is also a new way in the process of career development.
6. Combination of lawyer and legal affairs: legal adviser. At present, legal affairs in enterprises may be called legal counsel, but in fact, legal counsel is a practicing lawyer who needs to pass the qualification examination of enterprise legal counsel. Therefore, legal counsel can be said to be a combination of lawyers and lawyers, that is, practicing lawyers engage in corporate legal work, and corporate lawyers can also choose to obtain the qualification of corporate legal counsel and become formal corporate legal counsel.
7. Lawyers and lawyers may have a lot of contact in their work. Now in some litigation businesses, enterprises need external lawyers to conduct litigation activities, and their internal legal personnel need to cooperate with external lawyers to help lawyers complete litigation or other non-litigation cases.