Abstract: A legal consulting company mainly provides social legal consultation, legal document agency, investment consulting services, agency for non-litigation legal affairs, etc. It is a limited company, which is different from a law firm with unlimited liability. In addition to different types, law firms and legal consulting companies also have major differences in management departments, staff requirements, business scope, etc. However, legal consulting companies can cooperate with law firms. Let’s take a look at the difference between a legal consulting firm and a law firm. 1. What are the business scopes of legal consulting companies?
Legal consulting companies, as the name suggests, are companies that provide legal consulting services. Its business scope mainly includes:
Social legal consulting; legal document agency ; Investment consulting services; copyright services; patent services; agency for non-litigation legal affairs (not allowed to engage in litigation agency, criminal defense business); trademark agency services, etc.
2. What is the difference between a legal consulting company and a law firm?
Legal consulting companies and law firms are both in the legal industry, but they are not the same. Legal consulting companies The main differences from law firms are:
1. Different types
A legal consulting company is a limited company and assumes limited liability; a law firm is a partnership (or individual firm) and assumes Unlimited liability or unlimited joint and several liability.
2. Different management departments
Legal consulting companies are managed by the industrial and commercial administrative agencies (Industrial and Commercial Bureau), while law firms are managed by the judicial administrative agencies (Judiciary Bureau).
3. Staff requirements are different
Legal consulting companies do not require employees to obtain legal professional qualification certificates or lawyer professional qualification certificates. They can be graduates of law-related majors, or Those with many years of experience in the legal industry can, of course, be lawyers; most business personnel in law firms must have obtained legal professional qualification certificates and lawyer (internship) professional qualification certificates.
4. Differences in business scope
Legal consulting service companies cannot engage in litigation business (commonly known as "litigation"), while lawyers in law firms, as long as they have a lawyer professional qualification certificate, Can represent various types of litigation business.
3. How legal consulting companies cooperate with law firms
There are certain differences between legal consulting companies and law firms, but they are not in conflict. In fact, legal Consulting firms can also cooperate with law firms to achieve a win-win situation.
Generally speaking, legal consulting companies cooperate with law firms mainly in the areas of overlapping legal fields. Legal consulting companies are mainly responsible for legal consulting services. For those who need litigation or lawyers, It can be introduced to law firms; law firms can also subcontract simple legal consulting services to legal consulting companies.