Legal work mainly includes contract management, legal consultation, litigation case management, compliance training, system construction, seal and license management and other work.

1) Contract management

Contract management work can be subdivided into contract review, contract template library, contract management system, contract sealing and archiving, contract performance management, etc. Contract management is a basic skill of legal affairs, accounting for 20-30% of the department's work. Therefore, establishing and improving the company's contract management system is also the focus of the entire legal department.

First, formulate the company's contract management regulations. The requirements for the review, sealing, archiving, review, and management process of contracts are stipulated from the institutional level, so that the contract management work is institutionalized and standardized, and the contract management work is well-founded.

Secondly, refine the contract management process and improve contract management efficiency. Specifically, it can be divided into formulating contract review guidelines, standardizing the contract approval process, establishing company contract templates, responsible for contract sealing and archiving management, conducting regular contract performance reviews, conducting training on contract management issues, etc. I won’t go into detail here, but take contract review as an example to formulate your own review ideas when reviewing contracts. First, what should you pay attention to when reviewing different types of contracts? Second, what are the common problems in contracts? Third, what are the areas where disputes are most likely to arise?

2) Legal consultation

Legal consultation usually refers to issuing legal opinions from a legal perspective on problems encountered in the process of business transactions, and indicating the legal risks that business transactions may face. and provide feasible measures for legal advice. Legal consulting is the job that most tests the breadth of legal expertise and covers a wide range of areas, including company law, labor contract law, contract law, administrative law, criminal law, advertising law, anti-unfair competition, work-related injury insurance, construction engineering, etc. Knowledge in different fields, so the professionalism of legal affairs is not as high as that of judges and lawyers. It is not that the professional ability of people engaged in legal work is low, but that the scope of legal work is extremely wide. Unless you are talented, it is difficult to do everything. Proficient in every field.

3) Litigation case management

Litigation case management, which is easy to understand, means that legal representatives appear in court to respond to or prosecute lawsuits on behalf of the company. The amount, quantity and winning rate of litigation cases are important indicators for evaluating the work of the legal department. Our company handles about 2-3 litigation cases a year. If the case is not particularly complex, we will not hire outside lawyers. The general procedure for handling litigation cases is to sort out the basic situation of the case, clarify the claims of the company or the other party and the focus of disputes between the two parties, analyze the legal relationships corresponding to different claims, find defense ideas based on the legal relationships, and then find support for one's own views based on the defense ideas. evidence, and finally integrate different defense ideas to form different litigation strategies, and have a general estimate of the best and worst litigation results.

4) Compliance training

Compliance training is to produce various training courses to improve employees’ legal knowledge and avoid various disciplinary violations by employees. Compliance training belongs to legal risk prevention and control, which is similar to vaccination. It tells company employees not to do these behaviors, otherwise what legal consequences will there be, what is the correct behavior, etc. The content of compliance training is also very extensive, including antitrust training, anti-unfair competition training, anti-commercial bribery training, occupational crime prevention training, litigation evidence collection training, marketing legal risk training, government law enforcement investigation response training, and contract law training. , consumer rights protection training, labor law training, etc. Compliance training is a relatively interesting part of all types of legal work. You can organize training activities, produce training courseware, training posters, record training videos, conduct training Q&A, lottery activities, etc. to make the training more interesting. Compliance training is to simplify and make boring legal professional knowledge more interesting, improve the legal literacy of company employees, and prevent legal risks.

5) System construction

System construction is to formulate and manage the company's various system documents so that the company's various businesses are streamlined, institutionalized and standardized.

The Legal Department needs to formulate the company's "System Management Standards", clarify the formulation, approval, issuance, execution, modification, abolition, filing procedures, etc. of the company's various regulations, methods, norms, rules, guidelines, etc., and assist various departments in formulating company or department Various management regulations within the company are reviewed, the compliance with the regulations is reviewed, the company's system ledger is sorted out regularly, etc.

6) Seal and license management

Seal management is responsible for the use and management of the company's official seal, contract seal and other seals, including seal application approval, formulation of seal management systems, and seal engraving , storage, use, etc. License management is responsible for the application, change, preservation and use of company business licenses.

In addition to the above tasks, depending on the responsibilities of different companies, the legal department may also be responsible for trademark management, employee representative meetings, articles of association, board of directors resolutions and other important document management, etc.