1. Corporate legal counsel is also called corporate lawyer, including corporate external legal counsel, that is, law firms are entrusted by enterprises to appoint lawyers as corporate legal counsel and corporate internal legal counsel, that is, corporate legal professional managers employed by enterprises. No matter what form of enterprise legal adviser, mainly engaged in enterprise legal consultation, legal consultant, project negotiation, prevention of legal risks, implementation of national laws and regulations, providing legal advice on major business decisions of enterprises according to law, participating in drafting and reviewing important rules and regulations of enterprises, contract review and signing, enterprise litigation and non-litigation and other legal affairs.
2. The lawyer qualification certificate is the qualification certificate for applying for lawyer's practice and engaging in lawyer's profession. Holding a legal professional qualification certificate or a lawyer qualification certificate is regarded as obtaining a lawyer's professional qualification, lawyer's qualification, lawyer's qualification, etc. However, the state implements the dual-certificate management of professional qualifications and practice qualifications for lawyers. If you want to engage in legal work as a lawyer, you still need to obtain a lawyer's practice certificate or a lawyer's work permit.
3. Legal adviser refers to the professional activities that lawyers accept the employment of natural persons, legal persons or other organizations according to law and provide various legal services for employers with their own professional knowledge and skills. The business scope of legal counsel generally includes: providing legal advice to the employer on legal affairs; Draft, review and modify the legal affairs documents of employing Party A; To provide legal advice for Party A's management or major decision-making, or to demonstrate according to law; Assist the employing units to carry out publicity and education by legal means and strengthen enterprise management; Be invited to provide legal opinions or witness for Party A's relevant legal affairs; Provide relevant legal information to Party A; Issue relevant statements, announcements, letters and other documents on behalf of the owner; Accept the entrustment of the Employer, conduct credit or feasibility investigation on relevant enterprises or projects, and issue investigation reports; Acting as an agent for business registration and other legal affairs; Participate in Party A's economic contract negotiations and other major business negotiations, provide legal advice, prepare or review required materials and relevant laws and regulations, and assist in formulating negotiation plans. Participate in handling civil, economic, administrative disputes or other major disputes that have not been litigated or arbitrated by Party A; Give priority to accepting the entrustment of Party A, and participate in mediation, arbitration or litigation activities of civil, economic and administrative disputes as an agent, so as to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Party A according to law.
4. A lawyer refers to a practitioner who has passed the national judicial examination, obtained a lawyer's practice certificate according to law, accepted the entrustment or designation, and provided legal services to the parties. According to the nature of work, lawyers can be divided into full-time lawyers and part-time lawyers, according to the scope of business, lawyers can be divided into civil lawyers, criminal lawyers and administrative lawyers, according to the client and work status, lawyers can be divided into social lawyers, corporate lawyers and public lawyers. Lawyer's business is mainly divided into litigation business and non-litigation business.