What's the difference between a legal adviser and a lawyer?

The difference between legal adviser and lawyer lies in their different responsibilities: legal adviser is mainly responsible for handling daily legal affairs, including consulting and suggestions on common legal problems of the company, participating in contract negotiation, formulating negotiation strategies and plans, drafting and reviewing business contracts; Lawyers are mainly responsible for representing civil cases or acting as defenders or agents in criminal cases to participate in litigation. The specific duties of lawyers are: 1, guiding the professional work of paralegals; 2, as a legal adviser to organs, large and medium-sized enterprises, institutions and organizations; 3, study and solve the difficult problems encountered in the lawyer's business activities; 4. Handle non-litigation legal affairs and participate in economic project negotiation.