What do you know about legal affairs work?

With the popularization and establishment of laws in our country, more and more students are engaged in legal affairs work in various enterprises, but many graduates do not know enough about legal affairs work. The following is what I have compiled for you Information related to the understanding of legal affairs work, I hope you like it!

Understanding of legal affairs work

1. The guiding ideology of legal affairs work

As part of the company's back-end management work, corporate legal affairs should serve the purpose of serving the company's business development and make every effort to provide legal support and remove legal obstacles for the company's business activities. Legal personnel should not only know which behaviors are legal and which are illegal, but also try their best to make non-compliant and illegal activities compliant and legal, and at the same time report the legal risks of relevant businesses in a timely manner for leadership decision-making. Its guiding ideology should be based on decluttering and avoiding blockage.

II. Methods and methods of legal affairs work

Legal affairs work should fully serve the company’s business and serve all departments and branches of the company. First of all, you should pay attention to effective communication with business departments and branches, listen carefully to their ideas and intentions, and find ways to legally perfect these ideas and intentions. Secondly, relevant legal issues should be explained clearly from the perspective of business departments and branches. Only when business departments and branches truly feel that the legal department is really considering them and have a real sense of security, can they trust each other and truly become a cohesive team. Third, legal personnel should fully realize the importance of corporate efficiency and maximize work efficiency while ensuring compliance.

3. Style of legal affairs work

Legal affairs work penetrates into every aspect of the company’s business, which is not easy for people to notice and sometimes difficult to understand, and the effects are not immediately reflected. . This requires legal staff to adhere to a work style of humility, carefulness, patience and perseverance, that is, humbly ask business personnel for advice, be familiar with the business background and processes, and not make hasty legal judgments with partial coverage; carefully consider the risks that may be faced in the business , seek the most appropriate handling method, and do not avoid responsibilities because of legal risks in the business; patiently explain the legal risks, inform business department and branch personnel of relevant legal risks, and do not be arbitrary or hasty; persevere, strive for excellence, and do every little thing well.

4. Legal personnel should continue to improve their professional level and working ability. People play a decisive role in the effectiveness of legal affairs work. The professional level and working ability of legal personnel are closely related to legal affairs work. key factor in success or failure. A qualified legal personnel should not only have a solid foundation in the legal profession and not speak or act in layman’s terms; he should also have an in-depth understanding and familiarity with the company’s operating procedures and links, focusing on the integration of legal knowledge and company business knowledge. Continuously improve practical work capabilities.

Responsibilities of legal affairs

In order to improve the management of corporate legal affairs and promote the operation and management of enterprises in accordance with the law, a corporate legal affairs department has been specially established to be responsible for the management of the enterprise and its subordinate enterprises. (hereinafter referred to as the enterprise), the specific job responsibilities are as follows:

1. Participate in decision-making and provide legal feasibility, legality analysis and legal risk analysis for the enterprise's operation and management decisions.

2. Dispute Prevention 1. Assist the general manager of the group company and its subordinate companies to establish and improve various rules and regulations, and strengthen management of departments prone to loopholes and corruption in the company and its subordinate companies, and gradually Establish a sound supervision and restraint mechanism.

2. Participate in the negotiation of major economic activities of the enterprise and propose measures and legal opinions to reduce or avoid legal risks.

3. Review, modify, and countersign economic contracts and agreements, and assist and urge enterprises to perform major economic contracts and agreements.

3. Resolve legal issues that have occurred 1. Handle or entrust professional lawyers from law firms to handle litigation and non-litigation legal cases for group companies and subordinate companies, economic arbitration cases, labor dispute arbitration cases, etc. affairs.

2. Investigate and deal with serious violations of laws and disciplines committed by employees of group companies and subsidiaries. For employees suspected of corruption, bribery, dereliction of duty, dereliction of duty and other serious violations of law, with the approval of the general manager of the company, we will be responsible for assisting the relevant judicial authorities The agencies will pursue corresponding legal responsibilities in accordance with the law.

3. Responsible for handling the cleanup and collection of major or complex claims and debts of the enterprise.

4. Assist the functional departments of the enterprise to handle relevant legal affairs and review relevant legal documents 1. Assist the functional departments of the enterprise to handle business registration, merger, division, merger, dissolution, liquidation, cancellation and other industrial and commercial affairs and notarization , mortgage and other legal matters and review relevant legal documents.

2. Assist corporate functional departments to handle intellectual property management matters such as trademarks and patents and review relevant legal documents.

3. Assist relevant functional departments of the enterprise to handle credit investigation matters of cooperative units (customers), and issue statements, announcements and other matters.

4. Assist corporate securities and financing departments and external professional securities lawyers to handle legal affairs related to the listing of enterprises and standardize the operation and management of enterprises in accordance with the law after listing.

5. Collect, organize, and store laws, regulations, and policy documents related to enterprise operation and management, and be responsible for the management of enterprise legal affairs files.

6. Maintain communication with judicial authorities and relevant government departments to create a good judicial environment for enterprises.

7. Assist group companies and affiliated companies to carry out relevant legal publicity, education, and training.

8. Handle other matters assigned by the general manager of the group enterprise.

Requirements for legal affairs work

First, general legal affairs work, including answering legal consultations, reviewing legal information, and drafting legal affairs documents such as litigation pleadings, defense statements, and legal affairs applications. Documents, sorting out and collecting litigation evidence, and handling legal matters such as signing and serving during the litigation process? This is the simplest and most basic legal affairs work, and only ordinary legal professionals should be able to do it.

The second is to handle specific legal affairs on behalf of the enterprise, such as agency consultation and negotiation, agency dispute mediation, agency debt recovery, agency litigation or arbitration, drafting or reviewing enterprise economic contracts and legal documents, this is the enterprise The most important legal affairs must be handled by general lawyers or legal professionals with certain work experience and experience;

The third is to participate in enterprise management activities, promptly discover and prevent legal disputes in enterprises, and avoid or resolve them Respond to possible legal disputes, respond to and handle corporate emergencies, and safeguard the smooth development of the company. For example, provide legal advice on relevant legal issues in enterprise operation and management; participate in drafting, revising, and reviewing enterprise articles of association, important rules and regulations, and important legal affairs documents in production and operation; guide and assist enterprise contract management, and participate in major enterprise Contract negotiation and drafting; legal knowledge training for company leaders and employees, improving the legal awareness of company leaders and employees, etc. This is a higher-level legal affairs work for enterprises. General lawyers and legal professionals cannot reach this level. Only those lawyers or legal professionals with certain dual experience in business and law can be qualified for this work;

The fourth is to assist corporate leaders to correctly implement national laws and regulations, participate in the planning and operation of major corporate decisions, provide legal opinions on major corporate business decisions, advise corporate decision-makers, solve problems, etc. Add to favorites questions such as whether to litigate, how to determine litigation claims, whether to agree to mediation, how to make relevant major decisions legal, how to achieve the purpose of the enterprise without breaking the law, etc. This is the highest level and realm of legal affairs for an enterprise, and only those lawyers or legal professionals who have rich social and legal work experience, as well as considerable business management experience and theoretical level can be competent.